Hezbollah is the Antithesis of Shia Islam
A video went viral of a Lebanese woman standing at the Beirut Airport and berating other passengers, shouting: “We sacrificed our blood, this is our country, and whoever does not like it should emigrate.”...
Imam
U.S. Citizen Who Attempted to Assassinate Salman Rushdie Charged with Aiding Hezbollah
Latest Developments Federal prosecutors charged the man who attempted to assassinate the celebrated author Salman Rushdie in 2022 with “attempting to provide material support” to Iranian-backed...
Flash Briefs
Why is Baghdad funding pro-Iran militias?
Iraq is about to approve a budget that allocates $2.8 billion to the Shia militias known as the Popular Mobilisation Units (PMU), marking an increase of $600 million from the previous budget in 2021.
Op-eds
The Republic of Fatwas
Last week, a Shiite American of Lebanese origin, 24-year-old Hadi Matar, attempted to murder the Indian-born British-American author Salman Rushdie. Matar’s social media posts display staunch support...
Op-eds
Bin Laden Is Long Gone, but He Sparked a Jihadist Revolution
An Islamic caliphate was his ultimate political goal and remains al-Qaeda’s chief objective to this day.
Op-eds
Recalling the Holocaust is insufficient
The UN fails to name those threatening genocide or threatened by genocide
Op-eds
Female Imam: ‘Does German FM have an antisemitism problem?’
The Foreign Ministry on Heiko Maas’s watch has faced allegations of stoking Jew-hatred.
Op-eds
Iran’s President Submits a Budget of Fantasies
President Hassan Rouhani submitted his 2020-2021 budget to the Iranian parliament this week, in which he proposes irresponsible levels of spending based on optimistic projections of revenue from taxes and...
Policy Briefs
Be Careful What You Revolt For
Forty years after Khomeini took power, Iranians are still suffering for their revolution.
Op-eds
Let Rouhani and Khamenei Fight
Iran’s Islamic revolutionaries criticize each other regularly, but recently the level of invective among the ruling elite has reached new heights. The vicious infighting between President H...
Op-eds
A fast way to keep extremist influence out of our schools
The Trudeau government says countering radicalization is a foundational component of Canada’s national security policy. Indeed, it has established the new Canada Centre for Community Engage...
Op-eds
The proliferation problem from hell
On the surface, Iran and North Korea could hardly be...
Op-eds
Tyrants And Their Hollow States
Frankly, I’m surprised Erdogan had to settle for a photo-finish win at the wire. Not a great result for a would-be ...
Op-eds
Tyrants And Their Hollow States
Frankly, I’m surprised Erdogan had to settle for a photo-finish win at the wire. Not a great result for a would-be ...
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
Defining violent extremism down
Death, where is thy sting? For Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, it certainly didn’t come from the mainstream media. The 82-year-old former Iranian president died of a heart attac...
Op-eds
In Iran, A Father And Son Vie For Nation’s Future
Ahmad Jannati and his son Ali Jannati are symbols of the growing generational gap within the political elite of Iran. Jannati the elder perceives him...
Op-eds
Defeating Civilization’s Enemies
“The enemy has to be defeated,” U.S. Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter last week told American forces stationed in the Middle East. That is a simple truth, one that, regrettably, is...
Op-eds
The Iranian ‘Deep State’ is Trying to Buy an Oil Refinery in Switzerland
Iranians hit the streets earlier this month to celebrate a nucle...
Op-eds
When Israel Helped Yemen’s Shiites
Yemen’s Houthi rebels accuse Israel of standing behind the Saudi-led military campaign launched against t...