Obama’s Anti-Imperialist Fantasy Bears Bitter Fruit
The longer we refuse to acknowledge the mistakes of the Iran deal, the greater a price we pay
Green Revolution
Raisi Addresses UN Despite Grim Human Rights Record
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi described the West as “the real violators of human rights” at the UN General Assembly on Wednesday. At the same time, protests continued to sweep across Iran in response to his own government’s human rights abuses — specifically, the Sept. 16 death of a 22-year-old woman, Mahsa Amini, in police custody for violating headscarf laws. These protests challenge the legitimacy of Raisi himself, who won a fraudulent election for president last year and bears a decades-long record of human rights abuses against the Iranian people.
Flash Briefs
Iran’s Leading Presidential Candidate Has Committed Crimes Against Humanity
Even the prison guards were horrified. In the summer of 1988, at the behest of Iran’s then-supreme leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the regime executed thousands of political dissidents incarcerated...
Op-eds
China’s Plan To Buy Iran Won’t Go So Smoothly
Yet Washington should be worried about an enhanced Chinese presence in Iran.
Op-eds
Khamenei Doesn’t Trust The Democrats
The Democratic Party’s recently released policy platform was greeted warmly by certain newspapers in Iran. Media outlets associated with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani praised the party’s rejection...
Op-eds
Trump administration puts freedom first
The Trump administration has declared 2020 the year of “Freedom First,” though you would be forgiven for having missed it. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made the announcement at an event on human...
Op-eds
New Report Shows Increased Poverty in Iran
New data on poverty in Iran provides an opportunity for the United States to underscore the mounting cost of the regime’s corruption and mismanagement for tens of millions of Iranians. The data come...
Policy Briefs
New Iran Sanctions Include Fresh Human Rights Designations
The U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned two Iranian banks on Monday for serving as “financial conduits” on behalf of key Iranian a...
Policy Briefs
The Rial’s Fall Shakes Tehran
A small number of merchants in Tehran on June 24 protested against the rapid depreciation of the rial, the Iranian currency. One day later, that small protest turned into the largest demonstratio...
Op-eds
The U.S. Should Sanction Iran’s Minister of Intelligence and Security
On January 1, 24-year-old Saru Ghahremani attended one of Iran’s nationwide protests and vanished. Eleven days later, agents of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS)&nbs...
Op-eds
The Nuclear Deal Makes America Complicit in Iranian Crimes
The fundamental question when discussing a nuclear deal with Tehran is this: Are you prepared to fight over it? If not, then any deal is a good deal. This willingness to go to the mat also affect...
Op-eds
Human Rights Situation in Iran
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Congressional Testimonies
Iran’s relationship with Qatar could be polarizing
Tensions between the Gulf states and Qatar developed into an outright feud last June as a result of Qatar’s drift toward Iran, which led the Saudis and their partners to impose a boycott an...
Op-eds
Iran’s Theocracy Is on the Brink
Iran has a peculiar habit of surprising Americans. It has done so again with the protests engulfing its major cities. The demonstrations began over economic grievances and quickly transformed int...
Op-eds
A U.S. President Is Finally Speaking Up for the People of Iran
A note about the Iran section of President Donald Trump’s ...
Op-eds
The Ideological Battleground of Iran’s Internet
A leading advocate for internet freedom recently began his f...
Policy Briefs
The Ideological Crucible of Iran’s Hunger Strikes
Hunger strikes in Iranian prisons are hardly new. But the international attention that accompanied one recent strike has exposed rare cracks in the regime’s theocratic armor, and offers a k...
Policy Briefs
U.S. Sanctions Brother of Qassem Soleimani
The Treasury Department on Thursday added two Iranian human rights...
Policy Briefs
Labeling Iran’s Revolutionary Guard
Co-written by Ray Takeyh. Last month, the Donald Trump administration noted that it was contemplating whether to designate Iran’s Is...
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...