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December 22, 2024 | Will Selber |

The Islamic State and Iran remain determined to attack the US

Despite the recent successes of federal law enforcement agencies, the number of attempted attacks underscores these adversaries’ determination. Since the October 8 arrest of an Afghan man...

July 18, 2022 | Toby Dershowitz |

Iran Is Testing Us. So Far, We Are Failing

In February, a jet carrying Iran’s minister of the interior, Ahmad Vahidi, landed at Pakistan’s Nur Khan air base and he was not arrested. He should have been. Vahidi, and four other senior...

May 20, 2019 | Thomas Joscelyn |

Hizballah operative convicted of terror charges after surveilling targets in New York City

On May 16, a jury in Manhattan found Ali Kourani guilty of committing various crimes on behalf of Hizballah’s Islamic Jihad Organization (IJO), which plans terrorist operations around the world. The...

December 11, 2017 | Mark Dubowitz, Toby Dershowitz

Iranian Terror. Argentinian Cover Up. Justice at Last?

One morning last week, Argentines woke up to a political earthquake: A judge...

October 25, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Germany Probes Kuwait Airways For Discrimination Against Israelis

Germany is investigating whether Kuwait Airways, in violation of air traffic laws, has refused to sell tickets to Israelis. The probe, launched Tuesday by Transport Minister Alexan...

September 18, 2017 | Behnam Ben Taleblu |

Rouhani Will Seek to Divide the West at the UN General Assembly

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani will deliver his fifth annual address to the UN General Assembly (UNGA) this Wednesday. Rouhani is likely to emphasize tw...

January 4, 2017 | Toby Dershowitz

With a New Investigation, Will Victims of Argentina’s Biggest Terror Attack Get Justice?

After nearly two years without progress, the investigation into whether former Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner conspired with Iran to cover up the Islamic Republic’s role in Argen...

July 18, 2016 | Toby Dershowitz |

Obama Can’t Let Iran Get Away With Murder

The Obama administration has long said it will hold Iran accountable for acts of terrorism. It now has a chance to prove it:  Interpol red notices for five former Iranian officials found culpable in...

March 1, 2016 | Sheryl Saperia |

The real roadblock to better relations is Tehran

The Islamic Republic of Iran must take delight in commentators in the West who advance the regime’s public relations agenda free of charge. Here in Canada, one analyst claims that...

November 18, 2015 | Clifford D. May |

Forget Paris

For almost two generations, since Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution, self-proclaimed jihadis have been fighting to re-establish Islamic supremacy and domination in the world. Leaders of the na...

August 6, 2015 | Jonathan Schanzer, Clifford D. May

Why Obama Is Wrong to Compare Himself to JFK

Speaking at American University today in defense of his nuclear deal with Iran, President Obama twice invoked President John F. Kennedy. To paraphrase Lloyd Bentsen, while we did not serve with J...

February 18, 2015 | |

The Long Arm of Iranian Terror

In recent weeks, an Iranian diplomat based in Uruguay hurriedly left the country after suspicions that he was involved in nefarious activities, purportedly involving a plan to bomb the Embassy of...

January 28, 2015 | Clifford D. May |

Cry for Argentina

“When heads of state become gangsters, something has to be done.” Winston Churchill said that. It’s a proposition not many people nowadays endorse. Fewer still take it upon...

January 27, 2015 | FDD Policy Brief |

Lynch and Nisman: Connecting the Dots Between Two Iranian Plots

The Senate Judiciary Committee will begin confirmation hearings on January 28 for Loretta Lynch, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York, to become attorney general of the United State...

January 23, 2015 | |

Alberto Nisman: The Man Who Exposed Iran in Latin America

The lessons learned from Nisman’s exhaustive investigation should be used as a playbook by U.S. officials.

January 20, 2015 | |

Alberto Nisman’s Warning About Iran

Beyond puzzling over the circumstances, is there any response the U.S. can make to the sudden death this past weekend of Argentine special prosecutor Alberto Nisman? Nisman spent the pas...

February 19, 2014 | Clifford D. May |

Sons of Iran’s Islamic Revolution

In Tehran last week, the 35th anniversary of Iran’s revolution was celebrated with chants of “Death to America!” and the burning of American flags. Also on display we...

January 27, 2014 | Toby Dershowitz FDD Policy Brief |

The 1994 Argentina Bombing Perpetrators: Where Are They Now?

One year ago today, on January 27, 2013, Argentina announced a memorandum of understanding with Iran for a “tr...

January 3, 2014 | Clifford D. May |

The Persian Triangle

On November 24, 2013, a “Joint Plan of Action” was concluded in Geneva by Iran and the permanent members of the UN Security Council—the United States, the United Kingdom, France...

October 3, 2013 | |

Rouhani’s Rooster Tail

Co-authored Bijan R. Kian and David J. Smith Hassan Rouhani, Iran’s new president, is back in Tehran after an all-smiles visit to the United Nations in New York....