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May 18, 2017 | John Hannah |

Why Trump’s Iran Sanctions Waiver Should Worry the Mullahs

As part of the Iran nuclear deal, or Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), that he inherited from his predecessor, President Donald Trump yesterday was forced to de...

January 18, 2017 | Clifford D. May |

Defining violent extremism down

Death, where is thy sting? For Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, it certainly didn’t come from the mainstream media. The 82-year-old former Iranian president died of a heart attac...

December 14, 2016 | Clifford D. May |

How Barack is like Ike

The Islamic Republic of Iran is, according to no less an authority than the U.S. government, the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism. Its Lebanese proxy, Hezbollah, suicide-bombed U....

June 3, 2016 | |

Supreme Leader’s Confidant Is Re-elected Parliament Speaker

Iran’s parliament re-elected Ali Larijani as parliamentary speaker on Tuesday. Larijani,...

March 22, 2016 | Mark Dubowitz |

Hassan Rouhani, ‘Moderates’ and Iran’s Post-Election Path

The recent elections in Iran sparked intense debat...

March 9, 2016 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

The Death of Iran’s Islamic Left

Co-written by Ray Takeyh Democracy in the Islamic Republic is a peculiar institution: it is designed to reinforce the legitimacy of the theoc...

March 4, 2016 | Saeed Ghasseminejad |

Iran’s False Choice: Rebranding Hard-Liners as ‘Moderates’

Iranians went to the ballot box last Friday to cast their votes for the Assembly of Experts and the Majles, Iran’s parliament. Reading ...

February 26, 2016 | Saeed Ghasseminejad |

Iran’s Assembly of Experts Election: A Foregone Conclusion

Iranians go to the ballot box today to cast votes in two elections: one for the Assembly of Experts and the other for parliament. The former is charged with choosing and supervising the supreme l...

February 26, 2016 | |

Iran’s Principlists to Dominate Elections

Analyses in U.S. media suggest today’s Iranian parliamentary election is a decisive battle between hard-lin...

January 19, 2016 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross |

The CIA’s Syria Program and the Perils of Proxies

Almost every aspect of the Obama administration’s policy toward Syria has been scrutinized, lambasted or praised in recent months, but one of the most significant facets, the CIA’s co...

May 29, 2015 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

Transformational Diplomacy

Many supporters of an Iranian nuclear agreement believe that a deal could help to moderate, even democratize, Iranian society. Barack Obama’s constant allusions to the transformative potent...

July 4, 2014 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

The Man And The Myth

Urbi et Orbi, the city and the world, Tehran and the globe. In his turban and clerical robe, softly speaking of peace, Iran’s president, Hassan Rouhani, resembles a spiritual guide mor...

April 11, 2014 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

Scare Tehran, Please

Is Barack Obama’s threat of preventive military action against the Iranian regime’s nuclear program credible? Would a one-year, six-month, or even three-month nuclear breakout capacit...

March 19, 2014 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Sanctions Against Iran Should Focus On Powerful Revolutionary Guards

Co-authored by Saeed Ghasseminejad Since Hassan Rouhani’s election as the new president of Iran in June 2013, the Islamic Republic has been on a ‘charm offensiv...

July 31, 2013 | Mark Dubowitz |

The Iran-Syria Nexus and its Implications for the Region

Introduction Chairman Ros-Lehtinen, Ranking Member Deutch, and distinguished Members of the Subcommittee, thank you for inviting me to testify today about Iran&rs...

June 27, 2013 | Mark Dubowitz |

Terror and Foreign Policy

Co-authored by Douglas Farah Earlier this month, Alberto Nisman of Argentina, the special prosecutor responsible for investigating the Iranian-planned 1994 bombing of a Jewish c...

June 4, 2013 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Iran’s Next President Won’t Be a ‘Moderate’

Co-authored by Saeed Ghasseminejad When Iranian voters go to the polls to elect a new president on June 14, their choice will not matter in any real sense: Whoever wins the cont...

January 11, 2013 | |

Assad’s Cabinet

Syria’s dictator’s, and the rest of the Iranian-led resistance bloc’s, well-placed advocates in Washington.

June 4, 2012 | |

Romney’s Syria Problem

His support for “opposition groups” is misplaced.

November 2, 2011 | Lee Smith Tablet |

Eclipsed

Until January of this year, U.S. policymakers and American allies feared what Jordan’s King Abdullah II had dubbed the “Shia crescent.” The thinking was that as Iran’s pow...