Federica Mogherini

October 24, 2019 | Benjamin Weinthal |

European lawmakers demand sanctions on Iran for human rights abuses

Members of the European Parliament have called on trade conditions with Iran to hinge on Tehran improving its appalling human rights record. “Iran is a country where women are imprisoned for being women,”...

March 14, 2019 | Tony Badran |

Hezbollah’s Deadly Lies

For years, the terrorist organization duped the expert class into believing it was peacefully evolving. Now that many have wised up, new and more dangerous fictions emerge.

February 20, 2019 | Clifford D. May |

Just another Arab-Israeli get-together in Eastern Europe

A U.S.-sponsored conference highlights a promising strategic partnership.

August 22, 2018 | Tzvi Kahn

The EU’s Passivity on Iran’s Human Rights Abuses

A European Union spokesman said last week that the EU “attaches high importa...

August 15, 2018 | Clifford D. May |

Imagining the Islamic Republic

Last week, the European Union issued a statement on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the nuclear weapons deal concluded with Iran’s rulers, from which President Trump withdrew three...

August 7, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German central bank blocks $400 million cash delivery to Iran ahead of crippling U.S. sanctions

The U.S. campaign to rein in Iran has scored a victory in the German financial sector, after the Deutsche Bundesbank− the country’s central bank− imposed a rule stopping a $400...

August 3, 2018 | Reuel Marc Gerecht, Ray Takeyh

The Preeminent Challenge

The biggest foreign-policy challenge before Donald Trump isn’t North Korea, where the usual pattern of diplomacy and deception persists. Nor is it Russia; it doesn’t have the mus...

July 11, 2018 | Clifford D. May |

The Islamic Republic’s demands

Britain, France and Germany are three of America’s closest allies but they don’t always act like it. Last week in Vienna, their foreign ministers met with the foreign ministers of Chi...

February 23, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal

EU Parliament Politicians Call for a Full Ban of Hezbollah

Members of the European Union parliament sent a letter on Thursday to EU High Representative Federica Mogherini, urging her to classify all of the Lebanese organization Hezbollah as a terrorist e...

January 17, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

AJC Calls for Berlin to Expel Iranian Ambassador for Spying on Israel

The Berlin office of the American Jewish Committee urged Germany’s Foreign Ministry on Wednesday to expel Iran’s ambassador because of his country’s alleged spying on Israel&rsq...

January 11, 2018 | Clifford D. May |

Europe’s Silence

It’s tempting to say that Europe’s leaders lack the courage of their convictions. But that would imply that they have convictions. The evidence suggests those days are gone....

January 10, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal

Forcing the EU to snap out of its cowardice on Iran

To understand Europe’s misguided policy toward the hundreds of thousands of brave Iranians who have blanketed cities across their country to demand the end of the nearly 40-year-old mullah-...

October 10, 2017 | Tzvi Kahn |

(Mis)Reading the IAEA reports on Iran’s nuclear program

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September 18, 2017 | Tzvi Kahn

Certifying Iran’s Compliance with the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action

FDD Research Memo

February 9, 2017 | Tony Badran |

Assad’s Fundraiser at the World Bank

For all the controversy surrounding it, there was one silver lining to President Trump’s now suspended ...

November 6, 2016 | Aykan Erdemir |

Erdogan’s Latest Crackdown–and How Turkey’s Chaos Plays to Extremists’ Strengths

The Turkish government’s arrest of dozen lawmakers, including the co-leaders of the pro-K...

November 10, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Label Europe anti-Israel

On Wednesday, the European Union is slated to officially announce guidelines mandating the labeling of products from Israeli settlements. This form of economic warfare unfairly targets the Jewish...

July 31, 2015 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Gold Rush: The Dismantling of the Sanctions Regime Against Iran

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July 27, 2015 | Mark Dubowitz

Impact of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement

May 21, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Mideast Experts Blast European Group’s Call to Punish Israeli Government

Responding to a group calling itself the European Eminent Persons Group on Middle East issues (EEPG),which urged the EU to take unilateral actions against the Jewish state for the stagnate peace...