Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

January 24, 2014 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

Negotiating with Ourselves

Analyzing the Islamic Republic isn’t a guessing game—at least it shouldn’t be. Iranian Islamists’ words and deeds are pretty consistent. Memoirs, speeches, and biographies...

January 10, 2014 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Human Rights Groups Call on Iran’s Regime to Stop Violent Repression of Gays

Human rights activists from international organizations ramped up their pressure in a late December letter to Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani, calling on him to swiftly end Iran’s per...

January 9, 2014 | Ali Alfoneh |

Iran: Rouhani Fights the Revolutionary Guards, Not Corruption

Just before leaving office, the Iranian press confronted president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with a Transparency International report declaring Iran "the second most corrupt country in the world." As t...

January 2, 2014 | Emanuele Ottolenghi FDD Policy Brief |

Babak Zanjani: An Iranian in the Eye of Turkey’s Storm

Iranian authorities arrested billionaire Babak Morteza Zanjani Monday a...

December 12, 2013 | Behnam Ben Taleblu FDD Policy Brief |

Catching Up with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

The Iranian election in June was in many ways a referendum on the policies of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. By campaigning against the status quo, Iran’s new president, Hassan Rouhani, sought to pro...

December 10, 2013 | FDD Policy Brief |

Rouhani’s Economic Battles with the IRGC

President Hassan Rouhani’s September 16, 2013 address to the commanders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) &ndash...

December 9, 2013 | FDD Policy Brief |

Rouhani Purges the IRGC From Local Government

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is systematically purging the executive branch of the veterans of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC). Among Rouhani’s 18 cabinet ministers, there...

December 6, 2013 | Michael Ledeen |

Dare We Say It? The Mullahs Must Go

Sanctions and diplomacy have thus far failed to induce the Iranian regime to cease its nuclear weapons program. We shouldn’t be surprised by this. Top Iranian leaders, from Supreme Leader A...

November 29, 2013 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

Faith-Based Negotiations

O believers, when you encounter the unbelievers marching to battle, turn not your backs to them. Whoso turns his back that day to them, unless withdrawing to fight again...

November 19, 2013 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Iran: Still Hostile to Gays

Co-authored by Stuart Appelbaum The expectation that the election of new Iranian President Hass...

November 13, 2013 | Mark Dubowitz |

Examining Nuclear Negotiations: Iran After Rouhani’s First 100 Days

Chairman Royce, Ranking Member Engel, Members of the Committee, on behalf of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, thank you for inviting me to testify today on this important topic....

November 8, 2013 | FDD Policy Brief |

The Widening Gap in Iran Between Rouhani and the RevGuards

US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Geneva today to “help narrow differences” and finalize an...

November 8, 2013 | Behnam Ben Taleblu FDD Policy Brief |

Khamenei’s 100 Days with Rouhani

In a few days, President Hassan Rouhani of Iran will have reached his 100 day mark. Analysts rightly point to the change in tone adopted by the new president, particularly when compared to Mahmou...

November 1, 2013 | Jonathan Schanzer |

Is Turkey Abetting Iran?

David Ignatius of the Washington Post...

October 28, 2013 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

About That Medicine Shortage in Iran…

Co-authored by Saeed Ghasseminejad Iran&nbsp...

October 24, 2013 | Benjamin Weinthal

The ‘Devil’ We Know

Anti-Semitism has transformed itself over the past two decades into a global scourge, as a resurgent movement of lethal Jew-hatred has led to murders in Europe and elsewhere. According to Daniel...

October 21, 2013 | Sheryl Saperia |

The Obama-Rouhani Playbook for Aspiring Tyrants

Co-authored by Danny Eisen Upon completion of his term in office, President Obama will bequeath to his successor a world indelibly scarred by the current crisis in Iran. For reg...

October 12, 2013 | Reuel Marc Gerecht, Mark Dubowitz

Iran Wants the Bomb — and Sanctions Relief

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is lying when he says the Islamic Republic has never had any intention of building an atomic weapon. Defecting Iranian nuclear engineers told U.S. officials in th...

October 7, 2013 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Seeing Through the Sheep’s Clothing

Co-authored by Saeed Ghasseminejad In his address to the United Nations, Benjamin Netanyahu described Hassan Rouhani as a wolf in sheep’s clothing, but you’d ha...

October 3, 2013 | |

Rouhani’s Rooster Tail

Co-authored Bijan R. Kian and David J. Smith Hassan Rouhani, Iran’s new president, is back in Tehran after an all-smiles visit to the United Nations in New York....