Hassan Rouhani

The Olympics must ban Iran

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) and United World Wrestling (UWW) — the global governing body for amateur wrestling—squandered a chance to save the life of Navid Afkari, the Iranian champion put...

Trump’s Iran Achievement

Among Donald Trump’s proudest achievements as president was his withdrawal of the United States from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), his predecessor’s nuclear agreement with Iran. The...

Countering the Iranian Threat in the Persian Gulf

Parsing Iranian Responses to the Killing of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh-Mahabadi

2020 has proven to be a tough year for the Islamic Republic of Iran. It began with the killing of its most important general and terrorist mastermind, Qassem Soleimani, and now appears to be ending...

Fakhrizadeh Assassination Underscores Iran’s Refusal to Come Clean About Nuclear Weapons Activities

The assassination last week of Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh eliminated the leading source of institutional knowledge about the Tehran regime’s once-flourishing nuclear weapons program....

Another Bold Strike Against Iran

The killing of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh demonstrates Israel’s capabilities and constrains Biden’s options.

The Biden Agenda: Eyes on Iran

Look for plans to return the U.S. to the JCPOA while concerns about regional aggression, terrorism, and more are shunted to the side.

What will the elections do to the US-Iran conflict?

As the lessons of the JCPOA suggest, weaponization is very difficult to define and monitor, so it requires a catch-all plan that also focuses on the regime’s past activities.

See No Evil: Europe Supports Genocidal Regime in Iran

Swiss and German economic deals might be aiding Iran’s illicit nuclear weapons program…. The Swiss firm Ceresola TLS reached an agreement [in 2010] with the Rahab Engineering Establishment...

Hassan Rouhani wants the US to surrender, but the pressure is on Tehran

“Surrender.” That’s the only option Iranian President Hassan Rouhani offered America during his (now forgotten) virtual address to the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA)...

The IRGC runs for high office in Tehran

It’s not every day that a former hostage-taker and a man essential to the founding of a designated terrorist organization throws his hat into the ring for president, not even in the Islamic Republic of...

Corruption, Not Sanctions, Is Causing Medicine Shortages in Iran

Hassan Rouhani, the Iranian president, says that new sanctions on 18 Iranian banks are part of a deliberate U.S. effort to cause shortages of food and medicine. It’s a claim that the Tehran regime has...

Will Iran’s past become prologue for Nagorno-Karabakh?

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is calling for “stability” and an “end” to the current fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan — but should the conflict between its northern neighbors escalate,...

Trapped in a Pandemic: Iran’s Political Prisoners Face COVID-19 Behind Bars

“Our bodies are ruined,” Narges Mohammadi, the imprisoned Iranian journalist and human rights advocate, wrote in July. “There are twelve of us in the ward who have come down with the coronavirus,”...

Why The Iran-Iraq War Matters For The Success Of Maximum Pressure

“War, War until victory” was a popular slogan chanted by revolutionaries in Tehran amid the bloody Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988). But after years of fighting with no victory in sight, Ayatollah Ruhollah...

The Plight of Iranians in Turkey

Turkish authorities on Monday detained Maryam Shariatmadari, an anti-Hijab activist twice-jailed in Iran, threatening deportation back to her home country. Although an international outcry from...

President Joe Biden would give Iran what it wants most — so Iran hopes he defeats Trump

A Biden victory would prop up the Iranian regime. A Trump victory would weaken it further.

Iran Nuclear Challenge Looms for the Next U.S. President

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reached an agreement with Iran last week for the IAEA to inspect two of Tehran’s alleged nuclear sites. According to the IAEA’s director-general, Rafael...

Iran Threat Sparks UAE-Israel Deal; US & Israeli F-35s Practice Killing SAMs

Israel and the United Arab Emirates have announced an historic diplomatic agreement catalyzed by the growing security threat posed by Iran. The United States, concerned about Tehran’s regional and nuclear...

China’s Plan To Buy Iran Won’t Go So Smoothly

Yet Washington should be worried about an enhanced Chinese presence in Iran.