U.S. Envoy Urgest Condemnation of Iran’s Hanging of Man for Homosexuality
The US envoy, Richard Grenell, wrote on his Twitter feed on Sunday: "Many of our European allies have Embassies in Tehran. This barbaric act must not go unanswered. Speak up."
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
The unstoppable envoy
Richard Grenell has made a career of confounding expectations. That hasn’t changed since becoming U.S. ambassador to Germany last year. On...
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Germany accused of betraying pledge to combat anti-Semitism by ignoring Iran sanctions
The German government is under fire for betraying its pledge to combat anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial, in light of Berlin’s efforts to circumvent U.S. sanctions on Iran. The cr...
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The Preeminent Challenge
The biggest foreign-policy challenge before Donald Trump isn’t North Korea, where the usual pattern of diplomacy and deception persists. Nor is it Russia; it doesn’t have the mus...
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Austria’s Kurz under fire for planned Rouhani meeting
Israeli diplomats complained about Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz’s planned meeting on July 4 with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in Vienna while The Simon Wiesenthal Center and an Au...
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The United States Should Seize on Iran’s Currency Crisis
While the debate over the future of the Iran nuclear deal and U.S. military strategy in Syria rages in Washington, policymakers cannot afford to miss the historic events unfolding inside Iran.&nb...
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Why Iran won’t rush to a bomb if Trump pulls out of the nuclear deal
With John Bo...
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German Ambassador Praises Iranian Holocaust Denier, Politician
Germany’s ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Iran Michael Klor-Berchtold praised last week Ali Larijani, the head of Iran’s quasi-parliament and a well-known denier of the Holocaus...
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Fear of US Sanctions Ends German Companies Fueling Iranian FM’s Plane
Energy and oil companies refused to refuel Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif’s airplane ahead of his trip to the Munich Security Conference in mid-February to avoid violations of US sanc...
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Iran’s Theocracy Is on the Brink
Iran has a peculiar habit of surprising Americans. It has done so again with the protests engulfing its major cities. The demonstrations began over economic grievances and quickly transformed int...
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How to Defeat the Islamic Republic
Iran’s modern history is replete with examples of the citizenry seeking to reclaim power from despots. The Pahlavi dynasty, which ruled between 1925 and 1979, regularly faced popular rebell...
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Berlin Mayor Lambasted For Enabling Uptick in BDS, Antisemitism
Berlin’s embattled Mayor Michael Müller is under fire from German Jews and antisemitism experts for allegedly tolerating hatred of Israel and a rising BDS campaign in the capital city....
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The proliferation problem from hell
On the surface, Iran and North Korea could hardly be...
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Iran’s Executions Continue After Rouhani’s Reelection
Iran has executed at least 20 people since President Hassan Rouhani’s reelection on May 19. This grim statistic offers continuity with his first ter...
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Iran’s Ideological War on Homosexuality
Iranian police raided a private party this month,...
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Obama Administration Dropped Charges against Iranian Procurement Agents
A bombshell article published Monday in Politico describes how the Obama administra...
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Hardline Iranian Cleric Announces Presidential Run
A hardline Iranian political coalition...
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In Venezuela’s Toxic Brew, Failed Narco-State Meets Iran-Backed Terrorism
As if the political and economic chaos wracking Venezuela wasn’t worrying enough, a couple of recent stories underscore the potential national security threat brewi...
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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...
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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...