Should America strike back at Iran?
Tehran knows that it's winning its proxy wars
Hossein Hamadani
How to Defeat the Islamic Republic
Iran’s modern history is replete with examples of the citizenry seeking to reclaim power from despots. The Pahlavi dynasty, which ruled between 1925 and 1979, regularly faced popular rebell...
Op-eds
Hezbollah Calls the Shots in Iran’s Syria Policy
President Donald Trump is reportedly about to extend a terrorism designation to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in its entirety. The IRGC is both the dominant force inside I...
Op-eds
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
Done Deal?
All administrations are short-sighted. Even the brightest, most reflective people can develop acute tunnel vision when they join the paper-pushing, crisis-a-minute senior ranks of the National Se...
Op-eds
Doubling Down on Damascus: Iran’s Military Surge to Save the Assad Regime
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Monographs
How Iran’s Mafia-Like Revolutionary Guard Rules The Country’s Black Market
The revolutionary children of the Ayatollah Khomeini, the Pasdaran, were the poor, marginalized thugs of the Shah's era, people with a huge appetite for violence. They founded the Islamic Re...
Op-eds
Are Washington And Tehran Pursuing The Same Goals In Syria?
“Yes, there is a strategy,” US Secretary of State John Kerry said in his December 5th address at the Brookings Institution. The US strategy, he explained, has three components: &ldquo...
Op-eds
Iran and the IRGC: Fueling Conflict in the Middle East
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Congressional Testimonies
The IRGC Transforms into an Expeditionary Force
The deployment of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and its proxy Shi’ite militias to Syria have saved the Assad regime. At the same time, however, Syria is transforming the IRGC...
Policy Briefs
The IRGC’s New Deployment Pattern
The October 7th death of Brigadier-General Hossein Hamedani, the most senior Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) commander killed in the Syrian war, underlines Iran’s growing military...
Op-eds
Time to Designate Iran’s Revolutionary Guards as Terror Group
Last week, news emerged that Russia's militar...
Op-eds
Senior Iranian Commander Killed in Syria
A senior Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander has been killed in Syria in an incident that sheds light on Tehran’s growing, shadowy role in bolstering Bashar al-Assad’s regime. ...
Op-eds
Iran is Exporting its Islamic Revolution into Syria, Iraq and Yemen Just as it Did in Lebanon
At a rally last month on the occasion of the 36th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, Revolutionary Guard’s Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani gloated: “We are witnessin...