It Just Got Easier for Iran to Fund Terrorism
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...
Joint Plan of Action
The Deal of the Century
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...
Op-eds
A Six-Step Plan to a Better Iran Deal
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...
Op-eds
In Iran We Trust? Illegal Purchases of Nuclear Weapons Technology continued to June ‘15
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...
Op-eds
Iran Made Illegal Purchases of Nuclear Weapons Technology Last Month
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...
Op-eds
The Gulf Cooperation Council Camp David Summit: Any Results?
Chairman Ros-Lehtinen, Ranking Member Deutch, and distinguished Members of the Subcommittee: thank you on behalf of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies for the opportunity to testify before...
Congressional Testimonies
What If the Iran Negotiations Drag On?
Now it seems there might not be an Iran deal after all. The Wall Street Journal reports: “International powers negotiating a nuclear deal with Iran failed to meet another deadline on Tuesda...
Op-eds
The Central Pillar Supporting the Iran Deal Has a Big Crack In It
There is a key flaw in the emerging nuclear deal with Iran that is likely to quickly turn this historic agreement into a monumental failure. The most important thing Iran gets from a dea...
Op-eds
Nuclear Bargains And State Department Backlogs
Should a final deal emerge from the Iran nuclear talks, now nearing a June 30 deadline, Congress will expect reports from the President every six months on whether Iran is in compliance. These re...
Op-eds
The Fundamental Flaws of the Emerging Nuclear Deal
The Asymmetry Between an Expanding Iranian Nuclear Program and Diminishing Western Leverage
Policy Briefs
North Korea’s Takeaway From The Iran Nuclear Talks
In defense of the Iran nuclear talks, Obama administration officials have made a number of unlikely claims, including the repeated proposition that under the current Tehran regime Iran’s nu...
Op-eds
Iran Shipping Sanctions Run Aground?
Officially, the Obama administration remains committed to enforcing sanctions on Iran’s main merchant shipping fleet, the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines, also known as IRISL. But i...
Op-eds
A Survey of Global Terrorism and Terrorist Financing
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Congressional Testimonies
Defrosted: Will German Firms Plunge Head First Into Iran?
Co-authored by Maximilian Kiewel With a framework in place for addressing the Iran nuclear issue, Germany, a member of the P5+1 powers negotiating with Tehran, sta...
Op-eds
The Win-Win delusion
“The West Capitulates.” That was the headline on an article by Ibrahim al-Amin, editor of the Lebanese daily al-Akbar. He elaborated: “Victors and vanquished. This is the...
Op-eds
The Iranian Nuclear Threat and Greek-Israeli Relations
Two items in the March 7 issue of The National Herald, an editorial, “Netanyahu’s Pyrrhic Victory” and an opinion piece, “A National Disgrace: Boehner Undermines the Presi...
Op-eds
Satrapy Fishing in the Yemen
Three years ago, film-goers were treated to “Salmon Fishing in the Yemen,” which critic Kenneth Turan called a “pleasant fantasy” about the Middle East. Today, of cou...
Op-eds
Doomsday: Stopping a Middle East Nuclear Arms Race
Imagine the imposition of financial sanctions on the central bank of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia—the only Arab member of the G20 group of major economies. To this, add biting multinational...
Op-eds
Obama’s Iran Policy Is Lost at Sea
American negotiators and their cohorts are trying to close a deal that would let Iran keep its nuclear program, subject to intricate conditions of monitoring and enforcement. Yet how is a deal li...
Op-eds
Dealing with Iran: Get It in Writing
On March 25th, the New York Times ...