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January 8, 2021 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Hezbollah: Narco-Terror and Crime in Latin America

Will the Biden administration go after Hezbollah’s drug trafficking and money laundering networks? Hezbollah’s direct involvement in the drug trade is well documented, ongoing, and a threat to U.S national...

October 28, 2020 | Benjamin Weinthal |

See No Evil: Europe Supports Genocidal Regime in Iran

Swiss and German economic deals might be aiding Iran’s illicit nuclear weapons program…. The Swiss firm Ceresola TLS reached an agreement [in 2010] with the Rahab Engineering Establishment...

October 25, 2018 | John Cappello

Serbian President Appoints New Chief of Staff for Armed Forces

Last month, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic named Lieutenant General Milan Mojsilo...

July 27, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Report: Iran using German companies to finance war in Yemen

Germany is considered the least cooperative of European allies in confronting Iran's bellicose activities.

July 2, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Report: Iran seeking illegal missile technology in Germany

The Islamic Republic of Iran sought to obtain illicit goods for its missile program from Germany, the intelligence agency for Germany’s most populous state, North Rhine-Westphalia, announce...

June 28, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Analysis: How Gulf States can get Europe to Abandon Iran

The protests sweeping across Iran are a clear sign the country’s economy and its Islamic revolutionary system are ready to buckle. The Gulf states can play a critical role in stymi...

March 13, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal

German Ambassador Praises Iranian Holocaust Denier, Politician

Germany’s ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Iran Michael Klor-Berchtold praised last week Ali Larijani, the head of Iran’s quasi-parliament and a well-known denier of the Holocaus...

February 28, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal

Fear of US Sanctions Ends German Companies Fueling Iranian FM’s Plane

Energy and oil companies refused to refuel Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif’s airplane ahead of his trip to the Munich Security Conference in mid-February to avoid violations of US sanc...

December 22, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal

German Court: Marxist Party Cooperated with Palestinian Terrorist Entity

The extremist Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany (MLPD) suffered a stinging defeat in a Hamburg court on Friday which ruled that a former German deputy and a weekly Jewish paper can state the far-...

November 21, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Germany sanctions Iran’s Bank Sepah

Germany’s Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) has announced that it has imposed a credit ban on Iran’s Bank Sepah for violating the country’s credit law....

September 14, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Exclusive: Iranian Nuclear Smuggling Ring Sent To Top German Court

The German Federal Court of Justice will rule on whether three businessmen can face criminal penalties for selling nuclear technology to Iran, allegedly to be used to develop weapons, prior to th...

May 30, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal

PayPal Probes Neo-Nazi Account Supportive of Holocaust Denier, Hezbollah

PayPal launched an investigation last week into its account with a neo-Nazi organization that is pro-Hezbollah, pro-Assad and also supports a convicted Holocaust denier. In response to a...

January 23, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Germany’s Split Personality: Courts Favor Antisemites, BDS Takes Hits

A regional court’s affirmation this month of a decision asserting that the arson at a synagogue in the city of Wuppertal in July 2014 was not motivated by antisemitism but was merely a plea...

August 5, 2016 | Oren Kessler |

The Israel-Egypt partnership deepens

Egypt last week marked Revolution Day, the day commemorating the 1952 Free Officers' revolt that toppled the playboy King Farouk. Next door in Israel, the Egyptian embassy threw a party....

March 18, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Obama and the daylight between US and Israel

This week’s AIPAC conference will place the fractured Israel-US relationship front and center in the American public’s focus. Of all the promises that the Obama White House h...

October 19, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Analysis: Why the German Foreign Minister’s Iran Trip Flopped

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier’s trip to Iran on Saturday turned the clock back to the Federal Republic’s pre-sanctions pro-Iran policies by showing an indifferent po...

July 31, 2015 | |

After Iran Deal, EU to Lift Sanctions on Guards’ Business Empire

While persuading Iranian negotiators to accept the July 14th Vienna Agreement, and per­haps in an attempt to entice Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) not to oppose the co...

July 29, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal |

European Companies: Enter The Iranian Market At Your Own Risk

With the signing of an Iranian nuclear agreement earlier this month, European companies along with leading politicians have moved at astonishingly fast pace to enter Iran’s markets. However...

July 16, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Analysis: German-Iran Business Ties Complicate Relations With Israel

With the adoption of the Iran nuclear deal by world powers – including Germany – on Tuesday, Chancellor Angela’s Merkel administration issued a full-throated endorsement of the...

June 29, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Analysis: Why Germany is the Weakest Western Link in Nuclear Talks With Iran

With the Iran nuclear talks entering the final stretch in Vienna, Germany’s role in the negotiations to end Tehran’s illicit nuclear weapons program has largely escaped scrutiny....