Despite the Biden administration’s efforts to finalize an agreement before the inauguration of Ebrahim Raisi as Iran’s new president, Tehran has refused to return to the 2015 nuclear deal, also known...
The U.S. Department of the Treasury last week sanctioned the Mustazafan Foundation, one of three critical holdings in the business empire of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The Trump administration,...
Iranian Air Force commander Brigadier General Aziz Nasirzadeh announced earlier this month that the Air Force and the Iranian automobile manufacturer SAIPA would co-produce unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV)...
Hassan Rouhani visited Paris on Thursday, part of the first European visit by an Iranian president in 16 years. The trip, which follows Rouhani’s visit to Rome earlier in the week, is aimed...
The Obama administration insists that the November 2013 interim nuclear deal with Iran gave Tehran’s economy only limited sanctions relief and that it can respond to Iranian misbe...
FDD Report
During his recent appearance before the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Iran’s president, Hassan Rouhani said that Iran is “ready to welcome entrepreneurs and big economic...
Chairman Menendez, Ranking Member Corker, members of the Committee, on behalf of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), thank you for inviting me to testify today on the implementation...
President Obama’s nuclear agreement to slow down Iran’s drive to become a nuclear-weapons power faces tough resistance from Senate Republicans and Democrats because of massive loophol...
Co-authored by Saeed Ghasseminejad Sanctions against Iran’s banking sector have restricted Iran access to financial markets and services. Iran’s exclusion has had an...
The interim nuclear deal reached between the major powers and the Islamic Republic on November 24 opened the investment floodgates for Western companies seeking to capitalize on a new business en...
Co-authored by Saeed Ghasseminejad Of all the problematic aspects of the Joint Plan of Action recently signed in Geneva by Iran and the six world powers (The United States, Russ...
FDD Iran Sanctions Analysis
Co-authored by Saeed Ghasseminejad If any proof was needed that the nuclear compromise hammered out in Geneva last month between Iran and the six world powers is a mi...
Ever since Iran’s clandestine nuclear weapons program was first exposed in 2002, efforts to convince Tehran to abandon the program have focused on two strategies. One is diplomacy and dialo...
Since 2010, U.S. sanctions have aggressively targeted Iran’s technological efforts to advance its nuclear program. But while hundreds of companies are under U.S. sanctions, Iranian front co...
Over the past six years, the United States and its European allies have imposed an impressive sanctions regime against Iran. Sanctions have successfully caused severe stress to Iran’s econo...