Khamenei’s Latest Moves to Solidify Hardline Gains
The legendary cleric Abbas Vaez Tabasi died this month after thirty-seven years supe...
Mashhad
Saudi Arabia targets alleged Hezbollah procurement agents
Saudi Arabia imposed sanctions&...
Op-eds
Flying in the Face of U.S. Sanctions
Mahan Air is an Iranian passenger airline that also happens to be a favorite with the country’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The IRGC uses Mahan planes to ferry weapons and personnel...
Op-eds
Iran is Complicit in Attacks on Saudi Missions
Saudi Arabia executed a prominent anti-government Shiite cleric on Saturday, prompting angry mobs in Iran to storm the Saudi consulate in Mashhad and set ablaze Riyadh’s embassy in Tehran....
Policy Briefs
Saudi Execution of Shiite Cleric Infuriates Iran and its Allies
Saudi Arabia announced on Saturday that it had exe...
Policy Briefs
Our Iranian Interlocutor
Antisemitism has never been an easy subject for America’s foreign-policy establishment. Read through State Department telegrams and Central Intelligence Agency operational and intelligence...
Op-eds
Even Seemingly Harmless Investments in Iran Will Flow to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard
Proponents of the Iran nuclear agreement say...
Op-eds
The IRGC’s Sanctions Relief Bonanza
The European Union is slated to delist the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), its c...
Policy Briefs
Iran’s ‘Reformist’ President Is Shielding Powerful Revolutionary Guard From Anti-Corruption Campaign
A joke is making the rounds in Tehran. In it, the Iranian press confront President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad just before he leaves office with a report declaring Iran the second-most corrupt c...
Op-eds
Iran’s Supreme Censor
The Blind Man’s friend: Don’t suffer because of the past. You censored books for the sake of God. . . . What is...
Op-eds
The Islamic Republic of Iran Under President Hassan Rouhani
Thank you for providing me with this opportunity to share my analysis with you. Allow me in particular to express my gratitude to this subcommittee for raising the twin issues of the Islamic Republic’s use of terror against its own citizens, and the regime’s sponsorship of international terrorism.
Congressional Testimonies
The Islamic Republic of Iran Under President Hassan Rouhani
Violation of Human Rights and State Sponsorship of International Terror Ladies and Gentlemen, Thank you for providing me with this opportunity to share my...
Congressional Testimonies
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: Guardians of the Revolution and Violators of Human Rights
Honorable members of this subcommittee, I am privileged to appear before you today to discuss the role of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in a vast system of domestic repres...
Congressional Testimonies
Canadian Terror Plot Linked to al Qaeda in Iran
Canadian police officials have linked the plotting of two Muslim men to destroy a Toronto passenger train to al Qaeda's network inside Iran. The two suspects, neither of whom are Canadian ci...
Op-eds
Gay—or Left?
On July 19, 2005, authorities in the Iranian city of Mashhad publicly lynched two teenagers, Mahmoud Asgari and Ayaz Marhoni, for the alleged crime of raping a 13-year-old boy. Horrific pictures...
Op-eds
Iran To Investigate JCC Bombing
Why is Argentina letting Iran examine the 1994 AMIA bombing in Buenos Aires, a crime Hezbollah surely committed?
Op-eds
AQAP Deputy Emir Said al Shihri is Dead: Yemeni Government
The Yemeni government claimed today that the deputy leader of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and former Guantanamo Bay detainee Said al Shihri has died "after succumbing to wounds received in...
Op-eds
AQAP Deputy Emir Denies Reports of His Death in US Drone Strike
Said al Shihri, a former Guantanamo detainee and the current deputy emir of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, issued a statement denying the reports of his death that emerged in the media last m...
Op-eds
AQAP Deputy Emir Reported Killed in Recent Drone Strike
The Yemeni military claimed that Said al Shihri, a former Guantanamo detainee and the current deputy emir of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, was killed in a recent military operation in Hadram...
Op-eds
Taliban Suicide Assault Team Kills 36 Afghans in Western City
A Taliban suicide assault team fanned out across the western city of Zaranj today, killing 36 Afghans in several attacks before being gunned down by Afghan forces. A suicide assault team...