The path that led to Iran’s attack on Israel was one of US appeasement
The Biden administration must begin taking the Islamic Republic’s threat to world peace seriously
Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action
Iran Attacks Israel With Drone and Missile Barrage
Iran launched an unprecedented direct attack against Israel overnight between April 13 and 14, firing an estimated 300 drones and missiles at the Jewish state. The attack came from...
Flash Briefs
Tehran’s weapons of mass distraction
They conceal Tehran’s development of weapons of mass destruction
Op-eds
Washington Fails — Again — To Gauge Iran’s Nuclear Threat
In sum, while the ODNI’s report paints a picture of a more capable Islamic Republic with an expanding nuclear program, policymakers’ motivation and ability to check this challenge will stem first and foremost from accurately understanding it.
Op-eds
Analysis of IAEA Iran Verification and Monitoring Report — February 2024
Excerpt This report summarizes and assesses information in the International Atomic EnergyAgency’s (IAEA’s) quarterly report, dated February 26, 2024, Verification and monitoring inthe Islamic Republic...
Op-eds
Former Iranian Official Hints at Nuclear Weapons Program
Tehran maintains a nuclear weapons program, a former senior Iranian official appeared to suggest in an interview broadcast on February 12. Iran has crossed “all the thresholds...
Flash Briefs
No better enemy
America empowers its adversaries
Op-eds
Biden’s Imaginary Iran
Tehran’s hostility is clear, so why does the White House keep ignoring it?
Op-eds
Analysis of IAEA Iran Verification and Monitoring Report — November 2023
For the second time in two years, America finds itself providing military support to a friend in the wake of aggression. Within days of Hamas’ attack on Israel, American munitions began flowing to the...
Op-eds
Congress Should Take Away Iran’s $10 Billion Sanctions Relief
Just five weeks after the Hamas October 7 massacre, the State Department re-issued a sanctions waiver on November 14 enabling Hamas’s terror sponsor, Iran, to use more than $10 billion in previously inaccessible funds held in Iraq. ...
Policy Briefs
10 Things to Know About Iran’s Nuclear Program
The Islamic Republic of Iran is committed to the destruction of the United States and Israel, posing conventional threats worldwide via its terrorist proxies. Back home, Tehran is increasingly poised to...
Insights
Biden must reverse course on letting Iran sanctions lapse — or watch weapons pour into Gaza and Russia
Washington and its European allies just declined to prevent the expiration of UN missile and drone penalties against Iran. That decision will likely spur more missile and drone testing, production and...
Op-eds
Lax U.S. Sanctions Enforcement Yields Windfall for Iran’s Terrorist Proxies
Iran’s foreign minister on October 18 called for an embargo of Israel by oil-producing nations to protest Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza. Hossein Amir-Abdollahian also urged...
Flash Briefs
Lax Sanctions Enforcement Has Yielded a Windfall for Iran
The regime has made much more on oil sales since Biden took office.
Op-eds
US Policy Emboldened Iran and Hamas; It’s Time to Fight Back
It was Ali Khamenei who foreshadowed what was to come. “The Zionist regime is dying,” said Iran’s supreme leader on X (formerly Twitter), on October 4 — three days before Hamas attacked...
Op-eds
The clock is ticking on UN missile and drone prohibitions against Iran
The Hamas terrorist attacks Israel, backed by Iran, underscore a grim deadline: The restrictions from the United Nations on Tehran’s testing, transfer, and procurement of...
Op-eds
Hamas Takes Israelis and Foreign Nationals Hostage
Hamas has reportedly seized as many as 100 people as hostages, including Israelis, Americans, and other foreign nationals, since its war with Israel began on October 7. Secretary...
Flash Briefs
The Monetary Value of Relaxed Oil Sanctions Enforcement by the Biden Administration
“U.S. officials privately acknowledge they’ve gradually relaxed some enforcement of sanctions on Iranian oil sales,” Bloomberg News revealed last month. The dollar value of this sanctions relief...
Insights
Israel’s Less-Than-Secret War Against the Iranian Nuclear Program
A new book details the tactical success of Mossad’s efforts against the Islamic Republic.
Op-eds
Twenty Years Later, Iran Remains In Non-Compliance With Its Nuclear Nonproliferation Obligations
Sept. 12 will mark the 20th anniversary of the first resolution criticizing Iran by the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA’s) board of governors.