Mohammad-Javad Larijani

September 25, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal

Angela Merkel’s Ugly Romance With the Iranian Regime

Why Germany seeks to increase trade with a murderous theocracy bent on Israel’s destruction.

November 28, 2016 | Olli Heinonen |

Concerns about a Reduction of Transparency in IAEA Reporting on Iran’s Nuclear Program

FDD Research Memo

October 6, 2016 | Behnam Ben Taleblu |

Iran Set a Trap

Speaking at the U.N. General Assembly last week, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani ...

September 19, 2016 | Olli Heinonen |

Don’t Rely on Iran’s Good Intentions

There is a small window of time for the United States and its allies to determine what kind of nuclear technologies are delivered to Tehran, and by whom. And the clock is already ticking....

August 17, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Embracing Iran: The Swiss Cheese Sanctions Policy

The non-EU member Switzerland became the first Western country to lift sanctions...

December 1, 2014 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Analysis: Europe retreats from pressing Iran on human rights progress

Since the world powers reached an interim agreement to slow down Iran’s nuclear weapons program last year, there has been an astonishingly fast-paced change by some European countries and i...

January 24, 2014 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

An Iranian Moderate Exposed

“To my esteemed enemy, Mohammad-Javad Zarif.” Iran’s former ambassador to the United Nations remains very proud of this dedication in his copy of Henry Kissinger’s ...

December 4, 2013 | Michael Ledeen |

My Life as a Secret Back Channel in Iran

I was a secret back channel to the Khomeini Regime in 1985. If you're interested in all the details, help yourself to ...

January 9, 2013 | Michael Ledeen Faster, Please! |

The Prisoner Swap in Syria

Big Win for Iran: Their killers set free in Syria

January 7, 2013 | Michael Ledeen Faster, Please! |

The New Iranian Hostage Crisis

Over and over again, we are told that direct U.S.-Iranian negotiations would be a radical departure from past practice, and might decisively improve the “relationship.” Both...

December 5, 2012 | Benjamin Weinthal, Emanuele Ottolenghi

An Unholy Alliance

Germany appeared over the past several months to have finally fallen in line behind European Union efforts to stiffen economic sanctions against Iran. But in late October a group of German parlia...

November 2, 2012 | Benjamin Weinthal The Jewish Chronicle |

German MPs Do Business with Iran

European politicians in Brussels and Berlin have unleashed a storm of criticism over their planned trips to meet representatives of Iran’s regime. A group of five left-wing MEPs ha...

October 31, 2012 | Benjamin Weinthal |

European Lawmakers Cool to Obama’s Iran Sanctions

President Obama's efforts to isolate Iran’s rogue regime is drawing a cool response from some key European lawmakers, who may be putting trade over principle. A group of Germa...

October 12, 2011 | Benjamin Weinthal The New Republic |

What Europe Isn’t Doing to Stop Syria and Iran

As the world witnesses the Syrian and Iranian regimes commit countless human rights abuses and, in Iran’s case, move ever closer to perfecting its nuclear capabilities, there’s a comm...

May 23, 2011 | Emanuele Ottolenghi L'Occidente (Italy)

Con la scusa della lotta alla droga l’Iran compra armi dall’Europa

Criticato per il terribile record di condanne a morte del suo governo (compreso il numero più elevato di esecuzioni di minori nel mondo) il presidente dell’Alto Consiglio per i Dirit...

May 23, 2011 | |

Iran’s Profitable War on Drugs

Responding to criticism of Iran’s abysmal record in death sentences (including the highest number of child executions in the world), Mohammad Javad Larijani, the head of Iran’s High C...

November 15, 2010 | Wall Street Journal Europe

That Treasured German-Iranian Friendship

Germany has a bizarre way of working through its history. While the government, rhetorically at least, opposes Iran's nuclear weapons program as a threat to Israel's security, members of its parlia...

September 7, 2010 | Claudia Rosett The Rosett Report

Ground Zero Mosque: The Bombast of Imam Feisal

After summering in Malaysia and assorted petro-capitals of the Arabian Gulf, the imam behind the Ground Zero mosque project, Feisal Abdul Rauf, is back in America - though not for long. His...

August 14, 2010 | Claudia Rosett The Rosett Report

Seriously, Where Is Imam Feisal, and What’s With His Web Site?

If you look past the rhetoric, the realities - or should I say the morphing unrealities? - of Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf's Ground Zero mosque and Islamic center project grow ever more curious. P...