Spiritual Ardor and Military Might: The Story of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards
This past September in an audience hall in Tehran, a prominent vocalist named Sadegh Ahangaran took to a microphone to j...
Great Satan
Rouhani, the Deceiver
In two months’ time — on May 19, to be exact — Iran will hold presidential elections. As things currently stand, odds are that the incumbent, Hassan Rou...
Op-eds
Hezbollah: Iran’s Henchmen in Brazil
Across Latin America, Iran’s public face appears innocuous: mosques, cultural centers...
Op-eds
Report: Obama Seeks Meeting With Iranian President
President Barack Obama has sent two letters to senior Iranian leaders in recent months requesting a meeting with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, according to Persian language reports recently t...
Op-eds
Hillary Clinton, Neocon?
With terror in Brussels swamping the news cycle last week, speeches delivered to AIPAC’s Policy Conference by four leading U.S. presidential candidates,&n...
Op-eds
Why Republican Presidential Candidates Support Israel
So last week during the Republican debate, hundreds of thousands of people read your tweets lambasting four of the candidates — Gov. Chris Christie, former Gov. Mike Huckabee and Senators M...
Op-eds
Larijani’s Evasive Interview Shows Iran’s Policies Remain Unchanged
Iran’s Speaker of Parliament Ali Larijani was in New York on Wednesday to attend a U.N.-sponsored conference of parliamentary speakers...
Policy Briefs
The Lame Duck Who’s Dancing
The famous lame duck got some fabulous physical therapy, because President Obama—the lame duck in question– is flexing his muscles against his political opponents, and winning handily...
Op-eds
Iran Is Working with al Qaeda
On July 21, the Pentagon announced that Muhsin al-Fadhli, an al Qaeda operative who had been wanted for more than a decade, was killed in an airstrike in Syria earlier in the month. Fadhli has be...
Op-eds
Post-Deal, Khamenei’s Remarks as Belligerent as Ever
“Our policy toward the arrogant U.S. government won’t change at all,” Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei assured Iranians in his...
Policy Briefs
The Deal of the Century
On Friday, large crowds in Tehran and other Iranian cities burned American flags and chanted “Death to America!” On Saturday, Iranian media outlets reported that Supreme Leader Ali Kh...
Op-eds
Desperately Seeking Diplomatic Defeat
Imagine if, on September 12, 2001, I had written a column predicting that within less than 15 years, the president of the United States would be offering the world’s leading sponsor of terr...
Op-eds
Iran and Pakistan, A Cold Peace That Could Get Hot
Just how long Pakistan’s neutrality in Yemen conflict will last depends on two factors.
Op-eds
Ready for the Truth About Iran? Khamenei Wants to Destroy Us
Why are so many "experts" amazed that there is no deal with Iran? It's certainly not because Western negotiators weren't willing to meet the mullahs halfway; they were eager to compromi...
Op-eds
The Sun Sets on a Good Iran Deal
There’s so much wrong with the emerging Iran nuclear deal that it’s hard to know where to begin. But as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made clear i...
Op-eds
Bursa-Bound: Ahmadinejad’s Trip to Turkey
On February 26, an Iran Air flight landed in Istanbul carrying a prominent passenger in seat 19F: former Iranian President...
Policy Briefs
When Iran Goes Nuclear
Our attention these days with regard to security is understandably riveted on the Islamic State, or ISIS, and its hideous decapitations, rapes and live immolations. We must deal with the...
Op-eds
Iran Nuclear Negotiations After The Second Extension
Mr. Chairman, Ranking Member Engel, Members of the Committee: Thank you for the opportunity to participate in this hearing. I must confess to having deep concerns about the state of the...
Legislative Testimonies
The Case for Deadline-Triggered Sanctions
Without the threat of pain, Iran’s rulers won’t budge
Op-eds
Betting on Iran
Negotiations with Iran are set to conclude on Nov. 24th. What are the odds they will end with Iran’s rulers agreeing to verifiably dismantle their illicit nuclear weapons program...