International Maritime Organization

September 18, 2021 | Cleo Paskal |

AUKUS is a big deal, for everyone

In India, the already entrenched and active French lobby in Delhi will likely use this to try drive a wedge between the US and India (something they already work on) in part to protect/promote their sales. The catastrophic US withdrawal from Afghanistan may also be used as an example of US ‘unreliability.’

April 6, 2021 | Morgan Lorraine Viña, Simone Ledeen

Biden’s policy shift in Yemen courts environmental disaster

Excerpt A major disaster is unfolding in slow motion, with the international community seemingly incapable of taking any action other than public hand wringing. A crippled oil tanker, FSO Safer, has been...

July 1, 2015 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Snap-Back: A Journey Through Iranian Sanctions Evasion in Georgia

Two Iranian truck drivers sat idly in the parking area of the Poti Free Industrial Zone(FIZ), waiting for customs authoriti...

May 12, 2015 | |

Iran Shipping Sanctions Run Aground?

Officially, the Obama administration remains committed to enforcing sanctions on Iran’s main merchant shipping fleet, the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines, also known as IRISL. But i...

May 8, 2014 | Jonathan Schanzer

The Palestinian Authority, Israel and the Peace Process: What’s Next?

Download the full written testimony here (PDF)....

May 8, 2014 | Jonathan Schanzer |

The Palestinian Authority, Israel and the Peace Process: What’s Next?

Download the full written testimony here (PDF)....

March 17, 2014 | Jonathan Schanzer |

Palestine’s Plan for When Peace Talks Fail

Co-authored by Grant Rumley Despite the unshakable and quixotic optimism of John Kerry’s Middle East negotiating team, the prevailing prognosis in Jerusalem and Ramallah i...

July 12, 2013 | |

Have Tehran’s Tankers Hijacked the Tanzanian Flag?

When President Obama visited Tanzania last week, he praised the East African country as a place with which he feels a “special connection.” A glitch he did not mention is that Tanzani...

January 29, 2013 | |

A Tale of Iran, Syria and a Busy Oil Tanker

Although sanctions have forced Iran to cut back dramatically on its shipping traffic, some Iranian-linked vessels continu...

November 15, 2012 | Emanuele Ottolenghi, Mark Dubowitz Forbes

Is Iran Resorting To An Insurance Scam To Keep Oil Exports Going?

Europe’s oil embargo against Iran, reinforced by U.S. extraterritorial measures, is having a serious impact on Iran’s oil exports. Ira...

August 13, 2012 | Mark Dubowitz |

So You Want to Be a Sanctions-Buster

It’s easy -- if you try hard enough and have the right friends! Here’s a handy how-to guide to making moolah from the mullahs.

July 13, 2012 | Claudia Rosett The Wall Street Journal |

How Iran Steams Past International Sanctions

By reflagging and renaming its ships, Tehran keeps one step ahead of the law.

May 24, 2012 | |

The Magician Behind Iran’s Vanishing Oil Tankers

This interesting article by the Journalist-in-Residence at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies sheds some light on one of what undoubtedly are many efforts by the Iranian government to...

April 17, 2012 | |

The Magician Behind Iran’s Vanishing Oil Tankers

With sanctions bearing down on Iran, the Iranian shipping industry has been putting on a carnival of flim-flam to hide its doings. In the latest twist on this sanctions-dodging performance, Iran&...

August 30, 2011 | |

Tehran’s Ghost Fleet

A Chinese state-owned firm in Hong Kong has been helping Iranian ships get around U.S. sanctions.

October 6, 2008 | National Intrest Online

Strait Talk About the Arms Sale

By Dr. J. Last Friday, the United States government gave the go-ahead to a long-delayed arms sale to Taiwan. The $6.5 billion defense package announced by the Defense Security Cooperatio...

May 10, 2006 | World Defense Review

Facing Reality in Somalia

Imagine a country within the greater Middle East ambit that has successfully made the transition to electoral democracy with multiparty municipal, presidential, and, most recently, parliamentary...