Islamism

June 26, 2025 | Natalie Ecanow, Mariam Wahba

Qatar-Based Group Aligned With Muslim Brotherhood Backs Iran Against Israel

A network of Islamist clerics is exploiting the conflict in Iran to push its hardline agenda. Scholars aligned with the pro-Muslim Brotherhood, Qatar-based International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS)...

June 26, 2025 | Ahmad Sharawi |

The Muslim Brotherhood Pledges Support to Iran

The Muslim Brotherhood still backs the clerical regime in Tehran. The group’s interim senior official, or acting guardian, Saleh Abdel Haq, sent a letter of support to Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei...

June 25, 2025 | Clifford D. May |

The dagger in the Ayatollah’s cloak

President Trump decided to take it away from him

June 24, 2025 | Hussain Abdul-Hussain |

Victory over Iran gives Trump the chance to reshape Mid East with trade deals

Israel’s decisive victory over Iran’s Islamist regime has set Tehran’s nuclear plans back years at the least. It has also created a unique opening to normalize ties between Jerusalem...

June 24, 2025 | |

Fragile Israel-Iran Ceasefire Continues Despite Deadly Early Morning Iranian Missile Strikes

Shaky Ceasefire: Israel and Iran appeared to settle into a fragile ceasefire on June 24 despite deadly Iranian missile barrages in the early hours of the morning. Israeli Prime...

June 24, 2025 | Hussain Abdul-Hussain |

Khomeini’s war: Sunni Islamists taught Shia Iran to hate Israel

The ayatollahs adopted the Muslim Brotherhood’s worldview to make the destruction of the Jewish state the regime’s holy cause. The Shia leadership in Najaf now has the chance to return the Shia world to pacifism

June 23, 2025 | Reuel Marc Gerecht, Ray Takeyh

Can Iran Strike Back Effectively?

Past American triumphs were short-lived, but this time retaliation will be more difficult for Tehran.

June 22, 2025 | Mark Dubowitz, Ben Cohen

US dealt Iran’s nukes a major blow — but here’s why the cheers may be premature

One of the most profound threats to global security for the last thirty years or more has suffered a historic setback that will resonate for decades. In a ruse worthy of World War II’s “Operation...

June 21, 2025 | |

‘Completely and Totally Obliterated’: U.S. Strikes Iranian Nuclear Facilities, Including Underground Fordow Enrichment Site

U.S. Bombs Iran: The United States bombed three key Iranian nuclear facilities on June 21, including the heavily fortified, underground nuclear enrichment facility at Fordow, the...

June 19, 2025 | Hussain Abdul-Hussain |

Why Are Gulf Countries Not Speaking Out Against Their Rival Iran?

Since 1979, Iran has been a problem for Arab Gulf capitals. Tehran has exported its radical Islamism and terrorism across the region, built loyalist militias, agitated popular opinion against Gulf governments,...

June 18, 2025 | Bridget Toomey, Toby Dershowitz

10 Things to Know About Tehran’s Propaganda Network, the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting

Israel struck the Tehran headquarters of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) on June 16, damaging a key regime media organ. IRIB is far from an independent news channel. Rather, it is a tool...

June 17, 2025 | Max Lesser |

Tehran Is Fabricating Data Leaks About Israeli Pilots

An alleged hack-and-leak that claims to reveal the names — along with other biographical and professional data — of about 40 Israeli Air Force (IAF) pilots has spread on social media since June 14....

June 16, 2025 | Saeed Ghasseminejad |

Israel cannot settle for a temporary military win, it must topple the Islamic regime

For Israel, this is not a conventional conflict, it is a confrontation with a country that is determined to destroy the Jewish State.

June 15, 2025 | |

Israel’s Air Defenses Stand Firm Under Iranian Fire

Over 90 Percent Interception Rate: Iran has fired over 270 missiles targeting Israeli population centers since Israel began its systematic strikes against the regime’s nuclear,...

June 14, 2025 | RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery, Ben Cohen

Iran’s lies about its nuclear plans finally at an end

Iran’s nuclear weapons strategy lies in tatters in the wake of this week’s extensive, and ongoing, targeted Israeli strikes.  Ever since the Islamic Regime’s clandestine program to obtain...

June 12, 2025 | Jonathan Schanzer |

Options for Designating the Muslim Brotherhood as a Terrorist Organization

Once again a Trump administration is debating whether or not to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization. The last time around, during Trump’s first term, the effort petered out amidst...

June 12, 2025 | |

‘This Attack Did Not Happen in a Vacuum’: Hamas Murders GHF Aid Workers in Gaza, Reportedly Takes Hostages

Latest Developments Late Night Shooting: At least eight people were murdered and several others injured after Hamas terrorists attacked a bus carrying two dozen Palestinian Gaza Humanitarian Foundation...

June 11, 2025 | Clifford D. May |

Stalin in the subway

What a statue tells us – and should tell President Trump – about Vladimir Putin

June 10, 2025 | Tzvi Kahn |

Weakened Tehran Regime Hangs Innocent Man on Espionage Charges in Attempt to Show Strength

Pedram Madani is dead. Iran hanged the 41-year-old father of one on May 28 on charges of spying for Israel, a classic judicial fabrication that Tehran has wielded in the past to justify the execution...

June 10, 2025 | Hussain Abdul-Hussain |

The Iranian Regime of War and Death

When I was in elementary school in Baghdad, in the early 1980s, teachers took us to the streets to shout angry slogans against “Khomeini the Hypocrite” for refusing to end Iran’s war with Iraq. Little...