Oman in the Middle
Muscat’s Balancing Act Between Iran and America
Iran–Iraq War
The Revolutionary Guard’s Disinformation Campaign to Dominate Iran’s Economy
hen Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was formed shortly after the 1979 Islamic Revolution,[note][1] Mohsen Sazegara, “The Revolutionary Guard and the Three Perversions,” Personal...
Op-eds
U.S.–designated terrorist Soleimani gets Iran’s highest military honor
On Monday, Iran's Supreme Leader and Commander-in-Chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ...
Op-eds
No Accountability for Iran’s Nuclear Violators
That Tehran believed it was necessary to preserve information in an extensive warehouse reinforces concerns that it has never abandoned its ambitions to develop nuclear weapons.
Op-eds
As Iran’s missile program expands, so do challenges of confrontation
At the Munich Security Conference last week, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif ...
Op-eds
Continued Iranian Ballistic Missile Activities Require Unified Response
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Polish Foreign Minister Jacek Czaputowicz identified missile proli...
Policy Briefs
Iran’s “New” Land-Attack Cruise Missile In Context
While Iran’s habitual ballistic missile tests and ...
Op-eds
Tehran Counts on a Divided West
The Trump administration must persuade Democrats and foreign allies to counter the regime’s aggression.
Op-eds
Evolving Menace
Iran’s Use of Cyber-Enabled Economic Warfare
Monographs
Is Bibi’s Oman Visit an Omen?
The possibility that the country of five million could be a peace broker.
Op-eds
Oman Offers to Mediate between the U.S. and Iran
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif confirmed Wednesday that Oman, along wi...
Policy Briefs
ANALYSIS: Qatar will pay a price for its financial links with Iran
Iran’s mullahs are growing nervous about Tehran’s access to foreign markets, and with good reason. In the time since US President Donald Trump declared the nuclear deal dead early las...
Op-eds
Iran spreads lies claiming America supports terrorists after US-led attack on Syria
Iran has been filling the airwaves and the Internet with anti-American lies, slander and ridiculous conspiracy theories since the U.S., Britain and France launched missile strikes on Syria April...
Op-eds
Death of a General: What Shaban Nasiri Reveals About Iran’s Secretive Qods Force
One of the most experienced founding members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps and its secretive expeditionary Qods Force was Shaban Nasiri – a general who died near Iraq's Mos...
Op-eds
Oman Needs to Prevent Iranian Weapons Shipments to Houthis
Secretary of Defense James Mattis arrived in Oman yesterday to meet with...
Policy Briefs
Kurd Your Enthusiasm
On October 16, the world woke to footage of the Iraqi army barreling toward Kirkuk, several hundred miles n...
Op-eds
House Passes Sanctions Targeting Iran’s Ballistic Missile Program
Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation targeting the Islamic Republic of Iran’s ballistic missile program and its enablers. The bill –...
Policy Briefs
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
What You Should Know About Tehran’s Latest Missile Test
Following the Iranian Regime’s recent unveiling of a previously unseen medium-range ballistic missile (MRBM) and their claims to have conducted a successful flight-test of the missile, many...
Op-eds
The Iranian Express
On November 30, 2016, Syria watcher Tobias Schneider tweeted out pictures of an Iraqi Shia militiaman boarding an Iranian commercial airliner en route to Damascus. One selfie taken on the plane s...