Regime Change Without Nation Building
America and Israel are at war with Iran, a fact that should be neither shocking nor surprising. Both countries have been targeted by the Islamic Republic since its inception in 1979. Both countries...
Joint Plan of Action
Trump Should Oppose an Interim Nuclear Deal That Lets Iran Off the Hook
“We’ll have something without having to start dropping bombs all over the place,” President Donald Trump declared on Monday. The United States and Iran are set to meet for a fourth round...
Op-eds
No Clear Progress at Third Session of U.S.-Iran Nuclear Talks, Next Round Scheduled
Talks Continue: A third round of negotiations between the United States and Iran over the future of Tehran’s nuclear program took place on April 26 in Muscat, the capital of Oman....
Flash Briefs
Iran Nuclear Program Talks
Media Calls
U.S. and Iran Hold Second Round of Nuclear Talks in Rome
Second Round Held: A second round of negotiations between the United States and Iran over the future of Tehran’s nuclear program took place in Rome on April 19. A four-hour long...
Flash Briefs
Detecting and Halting an Iranian Weaponization Effort
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Memos
Iran Takes Delivery of Drone Ship as Supreme Leader Downplays Potential for New Nuclear Talks With Trump Administration
New Iranian Drone Carrier Delivered: Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy received its first drone carrier ship, according to Iranian state media reports on February...
Flash Briefs
The Despotic Duo
Russo-Iranian Cooperation and Threats to U.S. Interests
Legislative Testimonies
Moving the Money
Understanding the Iranian Regime's Access to Money Around the World and How They Use It to Support Terrorism
Legislative Testimonies
How America and Its Allies Can Stop Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran from Evading Sanctions and Financing Terror
Legislative Testimonies
A Dangerous Strategy: Examining the Biden Administration’s Failures on Iran
Legislative Testimonies
Iran is pushing Israel toward a multi-theater conflagration
A partial nuclear agreement, even a broad one, will buy the world only few weeks or maybe few months, alongside a substantial easing of sanctions, allowing the regime to recover economically and to continue financing and backing terrorism all over the world.
Op-eds
Neither Here Nor There
Jordan and the Abraham Accords
Memos
Another Iran Deal? Looking Back and Looking Ahead
Memos
Team Biden Runs the Syria Playbook on Ukraine
The administration’s horror over Putin’s war is not merely performative, but functional—in the service of realigning with Iran
Op-eds
Making Sense of Iran’s Three-Pronged Nuclear Fork In The Road
US officials have deployed an impressive array of metaphors over the past 10 months – from dwindling patience, to a diminishing runway, to a closing window – to describe the Biden administration’s...
Op-eds
Four things to know before today’s #ViennaTalks on the Iran nuclear deal
Video Bytes
A Sign That Iran Is Still Pursuing Nukes
Iranian media have reported on the identity of the new head of the Islamic Republic’s nuclear research institute.
Op-eds
Lost at Sea: How Two Iranian Warships Are Testing American Mettle
The Biden administration has tried to deflect anything that could possibly derail negotiations for a new nuclear deal.
Op-eds
Why America Should Hope the Regime in Iran Collapses
Advancing the collapse of the Islamic Republic will not bog the United States down into another Middle Eastern war or cost further blood and treasure. It can be done by maintaining sanctions on the Islamic Republic and its officials and by beginning a policy of maximum support of the Iranian people.