Team Biden must stop Russia’s Iran deal
The Biden administration — which repeatedly asserts that it has adopted tough policies on Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine — plans to allow Moscow to receive a major economic windfall under a...
Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant
‘Caught Between a Hammer and an Anvil’
Israel’s in a difficult position when it comes to the war in Ukraine
Op-eds
How Russia Could Earn Billions From Biden’s Revival of the Nuclear Deal With Iran
The Biden administration has two goals that are at odds with each other. It wants to ratchet up economic pressure on Russia, and it wants to revive the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran. The problem is the 2015...
Insights
Biden throws Putin a nuclear lifeline
The Russian war of aggression in Ukraine has significantly encumbered the Biden administration’s drive to reach a renewed Iran nuclear deal. Seeing an opportunity to build leverage against the United...
Op-eds
A New, Weaker Iran Deal Would Pave a Path to the Nuclear Threshold
Even a new deal might give us a ‘breakout time’ of only a few months.
Op-eds
What Will Stop the Islamic Republic of Iran
Can the Islamic Republic of Iran — the radical theocratic regime, that is, as opposed to the nation it tyrannizes — fall by the year 2030? That would be a moonshot for the Jewish people, though...
Op-eds
From ‘Maximum Pressure’ to ‘Minimal Resistance’
The Biden administration has barely responded to Iran’s escalation of its nuclear program.
Op-eds
U.S. and Europe Must Counter Potential Weapons-Grade Enrichment by Iran
Israel has shared intelligence with the United States and other allies indicating the Islamic Republic of Iran plans to enrich uranium to 90 percent purity, the level necessary for nuclear weapons. This...
Policy Briefs
Iran’s Nuclear Extortion Continues
Mohammad Eslami, the head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization (AEOI), recently proclaimed that the Islamic Republic is ahead of schedule on a parliamentary mandate to enrich 120 kg of uranium to 20 percent...
Insights
Biden Needs an Effective—and Coercive— Iran Strategy
The Biden administration seems to be on the wrong track. No strategy against the Islamic Republic of Iran can be effective without sustained coercive pressure. Going back in time, the situation is reminiscent...
Op-eds
Iran Continues to Extort the International Atomic Energy Agency
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and Iran agreed on Monday to extend for one month a monitoring agreement that was set to expire over the weekend. The IAEA’s director general, Rafael Grossi,...
Policy Briefs
The Realignment
On Iran, Biden is finishing what Obama started. And his top advisers are all on board.
Op-eds
Analysis of IAEA Iran Verification and Monitoring Report
Excerpt This report assesses information in the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA’s) quarterly safeguards report for February 23, 2021, Verification and monitoring in the Islamic Republic...
Op-eds
A return to the 2015 Iran deal is impossible
The IAEA’s failures underscore how the JCPOA is untenable in its current form.
Op-eds
Shining a Light on the Iran Deal’s Sunset Problem
If the new administration is serious about reinvigorated diplomacy, it must resist Iran’s nuclear extortion and forgo the temptation of re-joining the JCPOA. Breathing life into an expiring accord will not help dampen the Islamic Republic’s nuclear, missile, and military threats.
Op-eds
Iran is already winning
The ayatollahs are smiling
Op-eds
To meet the Iran nuclear challenge, the IAEA must remain apolitical
World powers should not restore the nuclear deal, known as the JCPOA, but should hold the Islamic Republic accountable for violating its international nuclear non-proliferation obligations.
Op-eds
Tehran’s 20 Percent Enrichment is Designed to Extort Washington
Iran has informed the International Atomic Energy Agency that it is now enriching uranium to 20 percent purity at its underground Fordow enrichment facility. The move is Tehran’s most egregious violation...
Op-eds
Bad News: Iran’s Centrifuge Assembly Plant is Going Underground
The director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael M. Grossi, confirmed in an interview this week that Iran has begun replacing a key centrifuge assembly plant that a massive...
Op-eds
With friends like these…
Key European allies side with Tehran, Moscow and Beijing