With President-elect Joe Biden’s victory, the United States is widely expected to re-enter negotiations with Iran. In advance of the election, some advisers to Biden circulated a white paper exploring...
As the lessons of the JCPOA suggest, weaponization is very difficult to define and monitor, so it requires a catch-all plan that also focuses on the regime’s past activities.
Hope springs eternal in the human breast,” wrote Alexander Pope in An Essay on Man. Such sentiment describes perfectly the lingering adherents of the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement known as the JCPOA....
The next two months before the November election are critical to the fight against the Islamic Republic of Iran and its nuclear and regional ambitions. The Trump administration must continue its maximum...
The Islamic Republic of Iran is in crisis. U.S. sanctions have crippled the country’s economy. Protests over the regime’s failed policies continue. The Islamic Republic has reportedly even reduced force...
Muscat’s Balancing Act Between Iran and America
FDD scholars among 30 experts who urge removing Iranian banks from financial service
Iran is once again the center of a heated debate between the Barack Obama administration and Republicans in Congress, this time over whether the United States’ $1.7...
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Chairman DeSantis, Ranking Member Lynch, members of this subcommittee on national security, on behalf of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and its Center on Sanctions and Illicit Finance,...
The Obama administration insists that “99% of the world” supports the Joint Comprehensi...
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani and his Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif have each ...
The fundamental flaws in President Obama’s deal with Iran have become well known. Among them: Iran’s rulers will have the power to delay or even prevent inspections of suspected...
Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, did not enter into Tuesday’s historic deal with six world powers to reset relations with the West. It was the promise of more than $100...
On Friday, large crowds in Tehran and other Iranian cities burned American flags and chanted “Death to America!” On Saturday, Iranian media outlets reported that Supreme Leader Ali Kh...
Now that a nuclear deal with Iran has been announced, one thing is clear: the agreement's terms seem poised to cripple its viability. The United States and its P5+1 partners caved o...
Can Iran be trusted to uphold the nuclear deal being finalized in Vienna? Can the Obama administration its partners in the P5+1 be trusted to hold Iran’s feet to the fire in case of violati...
The question is not whether Iran can be trusted to uphold the nuclear deal now being negotiated in Vienna (it can’t), but whether the Obama administration and its P5+1 partners can be trust...