Trump Once Called the Taliban Five ‘Killers.’ Now He’s Negotiating With Them
Negotiating with terrorists won’t bring peace to Afghanistan.
Iranian peoples
New Iran Sanctions Include Fresh Human Rights Designations
The U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned two Iranian banks on Monday for serving as “financial conduits” on behalf of key Iranian a...
Policy Briefs
US must sanction Iran’s major human rights abusers
The Trump administration has repeatedly condemned Iran for its domestic repression, but it can do much more. To hold the Islamic Republic accountable and express solidarity with Iranians seeking reform,...
Op-eds
Iran’s Enemies
They are many and varied.
Op-eds
US Sanctions ‘Will Cripple the Economy’ of Iran, Say Economists
The slated US sanctions targeting Iran’s energy and financial sectors in early November will pulverize the Islamic Republic’s struggling economy, according to a new analysis released...
Op-eds
U.S. Should Sanction Judge of Iran’s Brutal Kangaroo Court
The torture still occupies her nightmares. In 1984, high school student Mahnaz Ghezellou found herself blindfolded and handcuffed in Iran’s notorious Evin Prison for her peaceful a...
Op-eds
Iran’s forgotten persecuted Christian minority
Iranian Christians are in dire straits in the Islamic Republic because of a new wave of regime repression that has largely not registered in the media due to the country’s economic free fal...
Op-eds
German Foreign Minister in Hot Water Over Effort to Bypass Iran Sanctions
German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas is under fire for seeking to circumvent powerful pending US financial sanctions on the Islamic Republic of Iran, betraying his country’s pledge to combat...
Op-eds
Censorship and Sanctions: Should the US Sanction Iran’s Minister of Culture?
This past April, the Iranian regime announced an ostensible concession to the country’s beleaguered, long-censored journalists: Tehran would offer 100 of them unrestricted internet access. But there was a catch: The Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance (MCIG) would need to vet all candidates for loyalty to the regime’s Islamist ideology.
Op-eds
U.S. Should Sanction Iran’s Interior Minister
In July, Iran’s interior minister issued a veiled threat. The regime, said Abdolreza...
Policy Briefs
Report: Iran using German companies to finance war in Yemen
Germany is considered the least cooperative of European allies in confronting Iran's bellicose activities.
Op-eds
U.S. Should Sanction Iran’s ICT Minister
In his recent op-ed for The Cipher Brief, FDD's Tzvi Kahn recommends that the United States designate Iran's Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Ministry, its leader Mohamma...
Op-eds
A Canadian Consensus on Iran?
During the 2015 election, the Liberals pledged to restore diplomatic relations with Iran, and until last month, the government consistently stuck to that message. However, on June 12, Prime Minis...
Op-eds
The Islamic Republic’s demands
Britain, France and Germany are three of America’s closest allies but they don’t always act like it. Last week in Vienna, their foreign ministers met with the foreign ministers of Chi...
Op-eds
Iran dealt new set back with Austrian airlines cancelling flights
The alpine country’s Austrian Airlines announced on Friday that it will stop service to the Iranian cities Isfahan and Shiraz, delivering another business set back to the Islamic Republic o...
Op-eds
The US Must Put Minister of Justice on Sanctions List
In February 2018, as Iran’s clerical regime continued to suppress nationwide protests, Tehran’s minister of justice ...
Op-eds
President Trump Is Putting Huge Pressure on Europe to Reinstate Sanctions on Iran. He’s in for a Tou
“The stakes are huge,” said Richard Goldberg, who was lead Senate Republican negotiator for several rounds of Congressionally enacted sanctions that helped pressure Iran into...
Op-eds
The U.S. Should Sanction Iran’s Minister of Intelligence and Security
On January 1, 24-year-old Saru Ghahremani attended one of Iran’s nationwide protests and vanished. Eleven days later, agents of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS)&nbs...
Op-eds
US should sanction Iran’s notorious ‘hanging judge’
"The story is as jarring as it is depressingly familiar." In mid-May, Iranian judge Abolghassem Salavati ...
Op-eds
Meet the Iranian Police Who Enforce Iran’s Islamist Ideology
In the wake of more than 20 deaths that punctuated the early days of Iran’s nationwide protests, the country’s police chief boldly identified the principal provocateurs. Iranians,&nbs...