The Case for Deadline-Triggered Sanctions
Without the threat of pain, Iran’s rulers won’t budge
Mark Kirk
From Salman Rushdie to Charlie Hebdo
A quarter-century of Western fecklessness led from the former to the latter.
Op-eds
Analysis: ‘One-Handed Economist’ Needed to End Iran’s Nuclear Weapons Program
With Iran and the world powers meeting on Monday in Geneva for a new round of negotiations to end the Islamic Republic’s illicit nuclear weapons program, the question arises: How vulnerable...
Op-eds
Iran’s Serial Violations and Obama’s Tepid Response
Berlin – The sheer scale of Iran’s violations of the Joint Plan of Action to slow down its illicit nuclear-weapons program should ring alarm bells in the White House. Ve...
Op-eds
Betting on Iran
Negotiations with Iran are set to conclude on Nov. 24th. What are the odds they will end with Iran’s rulers agreeing to verifiably dismantle their illicit nuclear weapons program...
Op-eds
FDD Executive Director to Testify Before Congress Thursday on Iran Nuclear Deal and its Implications
WASHINGTON – Mark Dubowitz, executive director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, will testify before the House Foreign Affairs Committee Thursday afternoon on &...
Press Releases
Treating Our Friends Like Enemies
The Obama administration’s foreign policy provides a kind of porcelain alliance for America’s allies across the world. Three telling cases in point over the last week brought things t...
Op-eds
Financing Terrorism
TEL AVIV, ISRAEL -- I pay lots of taxes. Some of my money supports U.S. Special Forces, and that pleases me. I have no problem helping fund the U.S. Park Service or the Centers for Disease Cont...
Op-eds
Congress Can Defend Iran Sanctions Architecture, Provide Smart Relief After Final Deal
FDD Press
Monographs
The Iran Deal: More Moola for the Mullahs
The Islamic Republic of Iran and the “P5+1” major powers have confirmed that an ...
Op-eds
Is Obama’s Iran Nuclear Deal Unraveling?
President Obama’s nuclear agreement to slow down Iran’s drive to become a nuclear-weapons power faces tough resistance from Senate Republicans and Democrats because of massive loophol...
Op-eds
The Persian Triangle
On November 24, 2013, a “Joint Plan of Action” was concluded in Geneva by Iran and the permanent members of the UN Security Council—the United States, the United Kingdom, France...
Op-eds
Iran’s Delays and Deceptions
Just before Congress recessed for the holidays, 26 senators — 13 Democrats and 13 Republicans, led by Senators Robert Menendez (D., N.J.) and Mark Kirk (R., Ill.) — introduced the Nuc...
Op-eds
FDD Welcomes Bipartisan Senate Sanctions Bill Against Iran
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WASHINGTON -- In an effort to hold Iran accountable to the nuclear agreement it reached last month in Geneva with the P5+1 countries, a bipart...
Press Releases
Iran Through Saudi Eyes
The Saudis have a point. Those words do not flow easily from my pen. For more than three decades, the Arabian royals have spent billions of petro-dollars promoting Wahhabism, a poisonously anti-W...
Op-eds
Wishful Thinking on Iran
No one likes to be the skunk at the picnic but sometimes there’s no alternative: You just have to spray. That’s how I feel after reading a...
Op-eds
U.S. May Reassess Iran-Latin American Ties
The U.S. State Department said this week it will reevaluate a recent report in which it downplayed Iran’s links to terrorism in Latin America. But don’t expect an immediate change in...
Op-eds
Canadian MPs Decry Iran Human Rights Violations
Co-authored by Michael Wilner Canada’s Parliament hosted Iran Accountability Week last week, documenting the Islamic Republic’s human rights violations, particularly...
Op-eds
FDD Welcomes Bipartisan Sanctions Bill Targeting Iran’s Foreign Exchange Reserves
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE In a strong sign of bipartisan support for intensified pressure on the Iranian regime, United States Senators Mark Kirk (R-IL), Joe Manchin (D-WV),...
Press Releases
Treasury Action Targets Network of Banks and Iranian Businessman
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Washington, DC -- The Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) welcomes new sanctions against an Iranian businessman and a network of banks and...