Emanuele Ottolenghi

October 6, 2022 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

A Match Made in Heaven: The Hezbollah-Amal Nexus

Excerpt Over the past decades, Hezbollah has built a well-oiled, multi-billion-dollar illicit finance and drug-trafficking machine in Latin America that launders organized crime’s ill-gotten gains through...

October 4, 2022 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Biden’s Anti-Corruption Agenda Finds Its Test Case: Paraguay

A deeply corrupt South American country has entered the White House’s sights.

October 3, 2022 | David Adesnik, John Hardie

Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: October

September 1, 2022 | David Adesnik, John Hardie

Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: September

August 30, 2022 | |

Nuclear Deal with Iran Would Further Empower Hezbollah

Iran would receive up to $275 billion in sanctions relief during the first year of a new nuclear deal and more than $1 trillion by 2030, according to an FDD analysis. If past is prologue, a significant...

August 12, 2022 | Emanuele Ottolenghi, Ivana Stradner

Time to Sanction the Kremlin’s Ministry of Truth

When media platforms obey their paymasters’ orders to become complicit in their crimes, they are no longer media.

August 11, 2022 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Totalitarians Inc.

Why is Joe Biden alternately ignoring and funding the ever-closer alliance between Iran and Putin?

August 3, 2022 | David Adesnik, John Hardie

Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: August

July 6, 2022 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Mystery Cargo

Senior Iranian and Venezuelan officials are traveling around the world on a cargo plane. Argentina detained them. But what are they up to?

July 5, 2022 | John Hardie |

Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: July

May 17, 2022 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Murder on the Beach

Paraguay’s slain criminal prosecutor Marcelo Pecci made many enemies in his lifelong effort to protect the rule of law. One of them was Hezbollah.

May 11, 2022 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

IRGC-Controlled Iranian Airline Makes Unexplained Flights to Russia Amidst Invasion of Ukraine

The U.S.-sanctioned Iranian airline Qeshm Fars Air has flown to Moscow at least seven times since mid-April after having made that trip only twice last year, according to the flight tracking service FlightRadar24....

May 2, 2022 | David Adesnik, John Hardie

Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: May

April 11, 2022 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Biden, like Obama, talks tough but does little about Putin’s war crimes

Will President Joe Biden’s cri de coeur “Putin is a war criminal” become former President Barack Obama’s “Assad must go?” Lofty words; noble intentions, for sure. But Obama came and went....

April 4, 2022 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

The Kremlin’s Latin American Echo Chamber

A trio of Spanish language media networks controlled by Iran, Russia, and Venezuela push out propaganda and disinformation to demonize the West.

April 1, 2022 | David Adesnik |

Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: April

March 16, 2022 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Biden’s EIKO Sanctions Concession Is a Gift to the Ayatollahs

Lifting sanctions on EIKO will not advance Joe Biden’s purported goal of a nuclear détente with Tehran.

March 10, 2022 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

How Iran is Making Inroads in South America

Al Mustafa International University in Qom caters to converts in their native language. Some of them come home to run for office.

March 9, 2022 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Treasury Targets Hezbollah’s West African Finance Network

The U.S. Department of the Treasury imposed sanctions last week on Ali Saade and Ibrahim Taher, two prominent Lebanese entrepreneurs based in the West African country of Guinea. According to Treasury, Saade...

March 2, 2022 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Accommodating Iran Will Be No More Successful Than Accommodating Russia

Putin’s horrifying war in Ukraine shows the likely results of the West continuing to ignore Iran’s nuclear quest