Mahmoud Alavi

November 18, 2024 | Seth J. Frantzman |

Iranian lawmaker: Time to match US, Israel’s nuclear arsenal

Reporting on the comments by state media shows that Iranian institutions likely agree with his stance and want to highlight it.

July 16, 2021 | Thomas Joscelyn |

How Iranian Intelligence Hunts Down Dissidents While Protecting Al-Qaeda

Court documents show that the regime has long been trying to kidnap an Iranian journalist living in Brooklyn.

February 16, 2021 | Alireza Nader |

Fakhrizadeh Killing Reveals Dissent Within the Regime in Iran

In a revealing comment, the Islamic Republic’s intelligence minister, Mahmoud Alavi, said last week that the November 2020 assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizaded, Iran’s top nuclear scientist, was arranged...

February 11, 2021 | Andrea Stricker |

Washington Cannot Rely on Iran’s Alleged Anti-Nuclear Fatwa

The Islamic Republic of Iran’s intelligence minister, Mahmoud Alavi, stated this week that although Iran’s supreme leader forbade the building of nuclear weapons according to an Islamic edict known...

May 1, 2020 | Tzvi Kahn |

USCIRF Denounces Iran’s Religious Freedom Violations

Religious freedom conditions in Iran “remained egregiously poor” in 2019, according to an annual report released by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) on Tuesday. The report...

November 26, 2019 | Tzvi Kahn |

U.S. Sanctions Iran’s Minister of Information and Communications Technology

The Trump administration sanctioned Iran’s minister of information and communications technology (ICT) on Friday for his longstanding role in suppressing Iranian citizens’ access to the internet. The...

June 29, 2018 | Tzvi Kahn |

The U.S. Should Sanction Iran’s Minister of Intelligence and Security

On January 1, 24-year-old Saru Ghahremani attended one of Iran’s nationwide protests and vanished. Eleven days later, agents of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS)&nbs...

January 10, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Germany urged to abandon its support of Iran’s mullah regime

While tens of thousands of Iranians have taken to the streets in protest, the German government is taking heat for what some are calling its pro-regime policy in Iran, and its decision to allow s...

June 19, 2015 | |

The IRGC v Rohani: Spy v Spy

While the United States has pinned its hopes for a ne­gotiated solution to the dispute over Tehran’s nuclear programme on Iranian President Hassan Rohani’s government, the “...

January 28, 2015 | FDD Policy Brief |

Rouhani, a Nuclear Deal and the IRGC

Even in the...

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 4, 2013 | FDD Policy Brief |

Rouhani’s New Spymaster After 100 Days

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has famously promised “moderation” in Iran since being elected president of the Islamic Republic this summer. His intelligence minister, Mahmoud Alavi...

August 12, 2013 | FDD Policy Brief |

Rouhani’s Cabinet and the Challenge of Reform

The election of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has created an atmosphere of hope and optimism, both at home and abroad, not seen since Mohammad Khatami’s electoral victory in 1997. Howeve...

August 5, 2013 | FDD Policy Brief |

All the President’s Men: Rouhani’s Cabinet

President Hassan Rouhani presented his cabinet yesterday to the Iranian Majles. It remains to be seen if the parliament will approve R...