Iran Is Airlifting Supplies to Venezuela. The Trump Administration Should Move to Block It.
The Islamic Republic can leverage the Maduro regime's ability to access sanctioned goods as payment for its services.
Mahan Air
COVID-19 in Regime-Held Syria
The regime of Bashar al-Assad continues to report implausibly low numbers of COVID-19 cases, while evidence mounts of deliberate deception. The presence of tens of thousands of Iranian-backed militia fighters...
Policy Briefs
Iran vs. Trump: Suleimani’s Legacy, and Khamenei’s Ambitions
The supreme leader and Trump may well end the long-running, region-defining clash. We just don't know yet quite how.
Op-eds
COVID-19 in Iran
Iran’s coronavirus epidemic is the worst in the Middle East. Yet the Islamic Republic has downplayed the epidemic, substantially boosted funding for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and state...
Policy Briefs
Pandemic Spurs Iranian Regime to Escalate
Iran may be an epicenter of the global COVID-19 pandemic, but that has not kept the Islamic Republic from pursuing its rivalry with the United States more aggressively than before. The regime’s strategy...
Insights
Former Italian FM slams gov’t for permitting Iran Air flights to land
Says that instead of keeping contagion from Iran and China away, Italian authorities authorize Iran Air flights from Tehran to stop over in our airports.
Op-eds
Iranians suffer from regime’s malpractice on coronavirus
The Islamist regime in Tehran has set off a coronavirus bomb on its own territory. The official death toll leaped to 611 on Friday, yet other assessments indicate that close to 2,000 Iranians may already...
Op-eds
Coronavirus and voting boycott: A new low for Iranian regime
The past few days have been terrible for the Islamic Republic of Iran. The Feb. 21 parliamentary elections were boycotted by a majority of the population, with credible reports that just 19% of the population...
Op-eds
France Bans Iran’s Mahan Air
France last month banned Iran’s Mahan Air from flying in and out of the country, citi...
Policy Briefs
U.S. ambassador and sanctions cause drop in German-Iran trade
9% drop in German exports to Iran.
Op-eds
Unfriendly skies: Mahan Air should be grounded for good
Excerpt Since the beginning of Syria’s civil war, Iranian commercial airlines have sustained the dictatorship of Bashar Al Assad and the forces waging a scorched-earth campaign on his beha...
Op-eds
Report: German gov’t will ban Iran’s ‘terror’ Mahan Air
BILD reported that American politicians and security officials told the German government that American citizens are endangered at airports because of Mahan Air's activities in the Federal Republic.
Op-eds
New Treasury Sanctions Target Iran Air
In its largest ever single-day action against Iran, the U.S. Treasury designated...
Policy Briefs
German bank holds account for soon-to-be-sanctioned Iran Air
Iran Air has been accused of aiding Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad in his war against Syrian opposition groups.
Op-eds
German Governor Opens Israel Office, Refuses to Ban Hezbollah, Iran Trade
Armin Laschet, the powerful governor of the largest German state North ...
Op-eds
German meddling in U.S. politics and Trump foreign policy triggers sharp rebuke from GOP Senators
German interference in the U.S. political system as means of countering President Trump’s foreign policy agenda has sparked sharp criticism from Republican senators. There has been...
Op-eds
Treasury rightly clips wings of Iran’s Mahan Air
In his recent op-ed for The Hill, FDD's Emanuele Ottolenghi asserts that for too long, Mahan Air, an Iranian commercial airline, has been complicit in the Assad regime’s use o...
Op-eds
KLM suspends service to Tehran, delivers further blow to Iranian economy
Royal Dutch Airlines announced on Saturday that it will suspend its direct flights to Tehran, delivering another blow to Iran’s struggling economy. The Dutch airline KLM said in a...
Op-eds
Report: Iran seeking illegal missile technology in Germany
The Islamic Republic of Iran sought to obtain illicit goods for its missile program from Germany, the intelligence agency for Germany’s most populous state, North Rhine-Westphalia, announce...
Op-eds
Exclusive: German Islamic Center Raises Money for Hezbollah
The Al-Mustafa community center in the city-state of Bremen in northern Germany is a major hub for raising funds for the EU and US designated terrorist organization Hezbollah in Lebanon, accordin...