Iran–Iraq War

Iran’s Escalating Threats: Assessing U.S. Policy Toward Iran’s Malign Activities

Iran Unveils New Combat Drone

Latest Developments The regime in Iran unveiled a new drone on August 22, which it claims can fly higher and farther than other drones in its arsenal. According to Iran’s state-run Islamic Republic...

Iran is playing musical chairs with leadership positions. None of these individuals have been sanctioned.

Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) has a new secretary. After nearly a decade at the helm, Rear Admiral Ali Shamkhani stepped down from the SNSC on May 22 and was appointed to...

Iran Reveals Newest Long-Range Ballistic Missile

Iran debuted its latest ballistic missile on May 25 amid increasing concerns from the United States and its allies over Iran’s pursuit of a nuclear weapon. Iranian Defense Minister Gen. Mohammad...

Canada must put Iran’s Revolutionary Guard on terrorist list under Criminal Code

“Excuses.” That’s how Hamed Esmaeilion, the former spokesperson for the Association of Families of Flight PS752 Victims, recently described Ottawa’s rationales for refusing to sanction Iran’s...

Arsenal

Assessing the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Ballistic Missile Program

Strategy for a New Comprehensive U.S. Policy on Iran

Iran Is Now at War With Ukraine

Tehran has taken its fight against the West to Europe.

Tehran, the Day After

What might happen in Iran if America or Israel bombed the nuclear sites?

With US distracted, Tehran and Beijing tighten embrace in the Middle East

The US pivot to the Pacific may be all about China, but it misses Beijing’s moves to fill a US void elsewhere, write a team from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

Book excerpt: ‘Gaza Conflict 2021′ dives into ‘war between wars’

In September of this year, Israel officially came under the area of responsibility of the Pentagon’s Central Command, which covers the wider Middle East. In his new book, “Gaza Conflict 2021,″ Foundation...

Don’t Believe Predictions of a Rift Between Iran and Syria

Last week, Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad reportedly expelled Javad Ghaffari, the top Iranian commander in Syria, spurring hopes that Damascus is on the brink of a realignment that would draw it closer...

A Sign That Iran Is Still Pursuing Nukes

Iranian media have reported on the identity of the new head of the Islamic Republic’s nuclear research institute.

US Should Sanction The New Head And Businesses Of Iran’s Martyrs Foundation

Amir Hossein Ghazizadeh Hashemi is settling into a new job as chief of the Foundation of Martyrs and Veterans Affairs, a behemoth linked to the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC). Hashemi was appointed earlier...

Hangman-in-chief

Iranian presidential elections have rarely mattered. Both the past victory of the so-called reformists and now the restoration of a tailor made presidency to consolidate the regime, portray something similar...

Why the Coming Iranian Elections Will Challenge the Biden Administration

Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei seems inclined to promote a candidate who will quash dissent over someone who could work with the West.

Redefining Iran’s Role in its Latest ‘Shadow War’ Against Israel

As Iran works to make its proxies more militarily self-sufficient, opportunities for weapons interception will be reduced and claims of attribution against Tehran will become harder.

Hezbollah’s al-Qard al-Hasan and Lebanon’s Banking Sector

Iran Is More Than Persia

Ethnic Politics in the Islamic Republic

Washington Cannot Rely on Iran’s Alleged Anti-Nuclear Fatwa

The Islamic Republic of Iran’s intelligence minister, Mahmoud Alavi, stated this week that although Iran’s supreme leader forbade the building of nuclear weapons according to an Islamic edict known...