Trump’s pivot to North Korea
America can do anything but America can’t do everything, at least not within a four-year time frame. That suggests that the American president — any American president — needs t...
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Germany’s Split Personality: Courts Favor Antisemites, BDS Takes Hits
A regional court’s affirmation this month of a decision asserting that the arson at a synagogue in the city of Wuppertal in July 2014 was not motivated by antisemitism but was merely a plea...
Op-eds
The Death of Ali Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani, a Machiavellian Prince
Co-written by Ali Alfoneh. Last week Ali Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani, the principal architect of the Islamic Republic, died of a heart attack at 82. The former parliamentary speake...
Op-eds
Pro-Iran group to urge Germans to vote Israel is illegal
The radical Islamic pro-Iran regime NGO “The Feather” announced that it will urge Germans to reject Israel’s existence on Saturday at an information stand in the the north...
Op-eds
Leading BDS activist: Move Israel to Germany
It would not be absurd to relocate Israel to Baden-Württemberg, embattled German BDS activist Christoph Glanz wrote. The news that Glanz welcomed the idea that the Jewish state shou...
Op-eds
Iran and the future of the Middle East
Nixon went to China. Obama will not be going to Iran. The 1972 visit of President Richard M. Nixon to the People’s Republic included meetings with both Chairman Mao Zedong, the com...
Op-eds
Will Iran wordsmith its way off our terrorism list? It certainly is trying
Iran is on a diplomatic offensive to persuade global illicit finance regulators to accept that Hezbollah is not a terrorist group. It may be just a matter of time before the international body in...
Op-eds
Now Is Not The Time To Lift Sanctions On Iran
The Islamic Republic of Iran is energetically trying to legitimize its financial sector despite a decades-long rap sheet of illicit financial activities. Since the conclusion of the nuclear deal,...
Policy Briefs
Supreme Leader’s Confidant Is Re-elected Parliament Speaker
Iran’s parliament re-elected Ali Larijani as parliamentary speaker on Tuesday. Larijani,...
Policy Briefs
Iran’s Holocaust denial is part of a malevolent strategy
Co-written by Ray Takeyh The Islamic Republic of Iran held another ...
Op-eds
A Hardliner’s Hardliner Wins Assembly of Experts Chair
The Assembly of Experts, the body charged with choosing Iran’s supreme leader, selected one of the Islami...
Policy Briefs
Obama’s ‘boy wonder’
Among the most serious charges that President Obama and his supporters have leveled against President Bush and Vice President Cheney: They “cherry-picked intelligence.” The phrase sug...
Op-eds
Iran: Former IRGC Commander Reveals Its Meddling in Elections
Mansour Haghighatpour, an Iranian parliamentarian and former Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commander,...
Op-eds
Hezbollah: Iran’s Henchmen in Brazil
Across Latin America, Iran’s public face appears innocuous: mosques, cultural centers...
Op-eds
Iran’s Principlists to Dominate Elections
Analyses in U.S. media suggest today’s Iranian parliamentary election is a decisive battle between hard-lin...
Policy Briefs
Khamenei’s Plan to Manage Iran After His Death
Last week the powerful Guardian Council—which approves all candidates for Iran’s political institutions—announced&n...
Op-eds
German city awards US NGO with ties to Holocaust deniers 10,000 prize
The Bavarian city of Bayreuth is slated to award 10,000 euros in April to a US-based activist group - Code Pink - that supports a boycott of the Jewish state and has participated in a conference...
Op-eds
German mayor opposes 10,000 euro award to anti-Semitic group Code Pink
The mayor of the German city of Bayreuth, Brigitte Merk-Erbe, said on Thursday that she rejects awarding the city’s tolerance prize to the radical US NGO Code Pink because of its ties with...
Op-eds
Signed: new lease of life for Mid East’s No 1 war machine
It was not last summer's rollercoaster, when Iran and six world powers clinched a deal to end the decade-long impasse over Tehran's nuclear programme. But the announcement, last weekend...
Op-eds
How Iran’s Mafia-Like Revolutionary Guard Rules The Country’s Black Market
The revolutionary children of the Ayatollah Khomeini, the Pasdaran, were the poor, marginalized thugs of the Shah's era, people with a huge appetite for violence. They founded the Islamic Re...