Iran on the March: Restoring Deterrence and Stability in the Middle East
A Response By Richard Goldberg
Europe
Fracking and the Election: It’s Not About Pennsylvania
Vice President Kamala Harris’s changing statements on fracking have become an important issue in the current U.S. presidential election campaign. Only five years ago, Harris pledged to ban...
Op-eds
The Biden Administration Should Not Sell F-35s to Turkey
The Greek daily Kathimerini on September 22 disclosed high-level negotiations between Washington and Ankara to sell U.S. F-35 joint strike fighters to Turkey. Equipping Turkey with a fifth-generation stealth...
Policy Briefs
Israel sends beepers into the battle with Hezbollah
While Biden sounds another retreat
Op-eds
Why Is The U.S. So Keen To Get Turkey Back Into The F-35 Program?
Ankara has and is taking visible steps to decouple itself from upholding the values and security priorities of the NATO alliance.
Op-eds
The cautionary tale of Riad Salameh
The downfall of Lebanon’s former central bank governor Riad Salameh is nearly complete. Earlier this month, Lebanese authorities arrested the former financial wunderkind on charges...
Op-eds
Northern Israel’s cities are caught in the crosshairs
Reporter’s Notebook: Bent but not broken, the Krayot need shelters.
Op-eds
Viktor Orbán vs. America First
Trump may like the Hungarian leader’s praise, but he’s working to undermine the U.S. on the world stage.
Op-eds
Iran Is Using Foreign Islamic Centers to Spread Terror and Hatred; the World Must Close Them
Last month, Germany announced that it would deport Mohammed Mofatteh, the former director of Hamburg’s Shi’a Islamic Center, which local authorities had ordered shut down five weeks earlier for propagating extremism, and for its financial links to Hezbollah. ...
Op-eds
Hamas is an idea
An old and genocidal idea that should be crippled whenever it arises
Op-eds
Iran’s Assassination Plots Against Jews Persist Despite the West’s Leniency on Regime
The French police recently charged a French-Algerian dual citizen and his partner for allegedly conspiring to assassinate Israelis and Jews in Paris, Munich, and Berlin — all at the behest...
Op-eds
Iran Launches Satellite Into Orbit Using Domestic Missile
The United States expressed concern on September 14 after Iran successfully launched a satellite into space using a rocket developed by its widely sanctioned Islamic Revolutionary...
Flash Briefs
Iranians Commemorate Mahsa Amini on Second Anniversary of Her Murder
The second anniversary of the killing of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini was marked in Iran and around the world on September 16 amid a media blackout ordered by Iran’s rulers. The young...
Flash Briefs
Why isn’t Biden enforcing his own sanctions against Iran?
The Biden administration periodically promulgates new sanctions against Iran and its proxies. That is a sound policy. But sanctions without enforcement are easy to circumvent. Case in point: Last...
Op-eds
6 Things to Know About Samidoun, the ‘Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network’
Samidoun describes itself as an “international network of organizers and activists” that campaigns for the release of Palestinians held in Israeli prisons. The group sponsors demonstrations, protests,...
Insights
U.S., European Powers Decline to Censure Iran’s Failure to Comply With IAEA Demands
During the quarterly meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors, the United States, along with the United Kingdom, France, and Germany (the “E3”)...
Flash Briefs
After 9/11, We Went to War Against the Terrorists. The Terrorists Won.
We retreated. They survived. And we’re deluding ourselves otherwise.
Op-eds
South Africa’s Ties with U.S. Adversaries Continue Unabated
A Russian naval ship made a port call in Cape Town on August 29, after stops in Cuba and Venezuela. This is the latest indication that South Africa’s new Government of National Unity (GNU) will continue...
Policy Briefs
Blinken Confirms Iranian Ballistic Missile Transfers to Russia
Secretary of State Antony Blinken confirmed on September 10 that the Islamic Republic of Iran is supplying Russia with Fath-360 close-range ballistic missiles for use in Ukraine....
Flash Briefs
Turkey’s ‘Islamic’ offensive against Israel grows as Gaza war rages
Turkey's President Erdogan is using the October 7 attack to rally Muslim countries diplomatically against Israel, seeking regional leadership.