Iranian Revolution

September 3, 2022 | Reuel Marc Gerecht, Ray Takeyh

Waiting for Thermidor: America’s Foreign Policy Towards Iran

The Islamic Republic of Iran may be on an accelerated schedule for revolutionary decay, at least if compared to the USSR.

August 30, 2022 | |

A New Iran Deal Would Empower Palestinian Islamic Jihad

Iran would receive approximately $275 billion in sanctions relief during the first year of a new nuclear deal and more than $1 trillion by 2030, according to an FDD analysis. If past is prologue, a significant...

August 18, 2022 | Mark Dubowitz, Saeed Ghasseminejad

The Republic of Fatwas

Last week, a Shiite American of Lebanese origin, 24-year-old Hadi Matar, attempted to murder the Indian-born British-American author Salman Rushdie. Matar’s social media posts display staunch support...

August 7, 2022 | FDD Experts |

Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) is an Iran-Supported Terror Organization

On Friday, the IDF launched Operation Breaking Dawn to preempt attacks by Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), a U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization since 1997. Since the fighting began, Palestinian militants have launched some 600 rockets at Israeli targets, including Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, while hundreds of thousands of Israelis have taken refuge in bomb shelters.

May 23, 2022 | Behnam Ben Taleblu, Saeed Ghasseminejad

Protests in Iran Are Surging. The Biden Administration Can Help.

U.S. policy can no longer afford to be limited to seeking a new nuclear deal.

May 11, 2022 | Clifford D. May |

Ukraine, Russia, and the U.S. national interest

A letter to J.D. Vance

March 20, 2022 | Jacob Nagel, Meir Ben-Shabbat

Dropping IRGC from blacklist would be boon for terrorism

When Former US President Donald Trump designated Iran's Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist group, the White House explained that this move recognized a reality in which Tehran not only funds terrorism but actively participates in it and uses the organization to advance its political goals.

March 16, 2022 | Clifford D. May |

The fall of the Golden Arch Theory

Enriching tyrants doesn’t prevent wars after all

March 2, 2022 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Accommodating Iran Will Be No More Successful Than Accommodating Russia

Putin’s horrifying war in Ukraine shows the likely results of the West continuing to ignore Iran’s nuclear quest

March 1, 2022 | David Adesnik |

Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: March

February 23, 2022 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Soleimani U

A new academic center in Caracas named after the Iranian mass murderer is the latest node in Tehran’s soft power network in Latin America

February 8, 2022 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Germany must implement its ban of Hezbollah terror activities

To great fanfare, Berlin announced in April 2020 that it outlawed all activities of the Lebanese terrorist movement Hezbollah within the territory of the Federal Republic. However, the ban remains a...

February 4, 2022 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

What Will Stop the Islamic Republic of Iran

Can the Islamic Republic of Iran — the radical theocratic regime, that is, as opposed to the nation it tyrannizes — fall by the year 2030? That would be a moonshot for the Jewish people, though...

January 27, 2022 | Saeed Ghasseminejad |

Biden Greenlights South Korean Release of Funds to Politically Connected Iranian Firm

The Treasury Department on January 6 issued a special license to authorize the South Korean government to pay $63 million that it owed to the Entekhab Group, an Iranian consumer electronics company. However,...

December 15, 2021 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Germany must stop cozying up to Iran

It should sever its relationship with a series of Iranian organizations

December 2, 2021 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Iran’s Quest for Soleimani’s Revenge Goes to Latin America

Shortly after a U.S. strike killed Iran’s most senior general, Qassem Soleimani, in Baghdad in January 2020, both Iran and its terror proxy Hezbollah swore revenge. Nearly two years later, Iran and Hezbollah...

October 28, 2021 | LTG (Ret.) H.R. McMaster |

Preserving the Warrior Ethos

It is corroded, and the necessary restorative work belongs to us all

September 30, 2021 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Making sense of German electorate’s shift to the Left

Israel should not be under any delusion that the Social Democratic Party has its back. If anything, the slide to the Left, as it is being called in Germany, has serious implications for the Jewish state.

August 25, 2021 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Germany’s ‘anti-Semitism is the socialism of fools’ enters a third century

The Social Democrats need to reverse their pro-Iranian regime and pro-Palestinian terrorism policies, or it will be business as usual.

August 11, 2021 | Benjamin Weinthal, Ellie Cohanim

German Appeasement Of Khamenei Endangers Iranians And The World

Back in 2008, the Wall Street Journal ran an editorial titled “Germany Loves Iran” and a piece headlined “Berlin ♥ Iran III” that covered workshops designed to help companies boost trade with...