What would Joe Biden do?
Vis-à-vis Moscow and Tehran, Trump should do the opposite
Mojtaba Khamenei
Pick To Run Iran’s Judiciary Shows Repression Will Live on Long After Ali Khamenei’s Death
If Iranians were hoping for a softening of the Islamic Republic’s iron rule, new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has wasted no time in disillusioning them. He has appointed Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejei...
Policy Briefs
How Trump’s Understanding With Iran Echoes Obama’s 2015 Nuclear Deal
If you want to understand Iran’s negotiating posture for the new nuclear deal with the United States, listen to what Washington and Tehran said about the nuclear deal of July 2015. At the time, President...
Insights
Khamenei warily accepts US deal as Tehran eyes rebuilding Hezbollah
On June 18, the Islamic Republic’s new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, who succeeded his father, issued a statement on the recent memorandum of understanding between Washington...
Op-eds
Spycraft will decide Iran’s fate
Excerpt After four months of war, Israel still has targets to hit. The latest IDF raids, in this increasingly fictional ceasefire, smashed Iranian missile-defense systems and a petrochemical plant in...
Op-eds
How double-dealing Oman threatens Trump’s Mideast peace
“Oman will behave just like everybody else, or we’ll have to blow them up,” President Donald Trump declared Wednesday. An apparently shocking statement about a nation long regarded as...
Op-eds
Iran Thinks It Can Still Pull Off One Last Trick
Trump Has Iran on the ropes. Now he must resist the bad deal.
Op-eds
Iran’s New ‘Nuclear’ Weapon
What happens if the U.S. declines to fight for the Strait of Hormuz.
Op-eds
In Iran, Behavior Changes Only When The Regime Does
An Islamist system built on anti-Americanism and export of terrorism will not abandon the very tools that sustain it.
Op-eds
How Iran’s Leaders Hide Their Billions
The United States and its allies around the world need to coordinate better to uncover Iran’s money laundering schemes.
Op-eds
Think we’re losing the war in Iran? Consider where things really stand
From nuclear setbacks to proxy collapse, the Islamic Republic faces its most severe strategic crisis in 47 years
Op-eds
Why Trump’s Iran cease-fire is an increasingly risky bet
President Donald Trump has indefinitely extended the cease-fire with Iran, even though the core issues that triggered the war remain unresolved. That doesn’t change one basic fact: The Islamic Republic has...
Op-eds
Iran attacks vessels in Hormuz, avoids concrete stance on ceasefire extension
After Donald Trump announced an extension of the US ceasefire with Iran on April 21, Tehran refused to take an official position on the state of the ceasefire, denied it had agreed to any extension, and...
Op-eds
The U.S. military can clear mines but not minds
Though Tehran’s capabilities are being degraded, its theology persists
Op-eds
How to assess America’s 40 days of war against Iran
Washington and Tehran are both arguing that they were victorious after 40 days of fighting. A detailed analysis, however, suggests a more nuanced picture in which American forces degraded Iran’s core...
Op-eds
5 Men Now Running Iran
The joint U.S.-Israeli campaign has eliminated the Islamic Republic’s former supreme leader Ali Khamenei, and his son and successor Mojtaba has yet to appear publicly. However, the regime remains intact. The...
Insights
The Broken Promise of the Panama Papers, Ten Years On
The scandal thrust financial secrecy into the spotlight. Why is dirty money still such a big problem?
Op-eds
The War in Iran Is Painful for Poland. It May Also Be in Poland’s Interest.
The blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, through which 12-14 percent of Europe's liquefied natural gas flows, puts Poland's energy diversification strategy to a serious test. However, this is nothing compared to the risk posed by a nuclear-armed Iran supplying Russia with advanced missiles and drones.
Op-eds
America can bankrupt Iran’s insiders — And it should
Tens of billions of dollars have been siphoned out of the Iranian economy by the Islamic Republic’s insiders over the past decade. If the U.S. wasn’t watching then, it is now. “We...
Op-eds
U.S. Redirects Tehran Regime’s Illicit Wealth to Its Victims
Tehran is getting evicted. For about three decades, the clerical regime has owned prime real estate in Midtown Manhattan. On March 23, the Southern District of New York announced its entry into a settlement...