The War Between Wars Heats Up
The hidden hands behind the conflict between Israel and Hamas
Natanz
The Realignment
On Iran, Biden is finishing what Obama started. And his top advisers are all on board.
Op-eds
Re-Engineering America’s Cyber Glass House
Blackouts caused by an explosion hit the Natanz uranium enrichment site in Iran last Sunday in what appears to be an attack aimed at slowing down nuclear weapons development. Iran blamed Israel for the...
Op-eds
The Biden Administration’s Time for Choosing On Iran
Vienna is bustling with another round of diplomacy on the Iran nuclear file. Unlike the direct talks that resulted in the flawed 2015 Iran nuclear deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of...
Op-eds
Washington Must Confront Iran Over Sensitive Nuclear Work
With Israel’s alleged covert action against Iran’s Natanz enrichment plant on April 11, Tehran’s latest breaches of the 2015 nuclear deal are in danger of premature burial by the news cycle. Yet the...
Insights
Biden Risks Repeating Mistakes of the Past if He Ignores the Evidence on Iran
The Islamic Republic has a long track record of willfully concealing its nuclear activities in violation of its treaty obligations.
Op-eds
Analysis of IAEA Iran Verification and Monitoring Report
Excerpt This report assesses information in the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA’s) quarterly safeguards report for February 23, 2021, Verification and monitoring in the Islamic Republic...
Op-eds
Fakhrizadeh Killing Reveals Dissent Within the Regime in Iran
In a revealing comment, the Islamic Republic’s intelligence minister, Mahmoud Alavi, said last week that the November 2020 assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizaded, Iran’s top nuclear scientist, was arranged...
Insights
A return to the 2015 Iran deal is impossible
The IAEA’s failures underscore how the JCPOA is untenable in its current form.
Op-eds
Shining a Light on the Iran Deal’s Sunset Problem
If the new administration is serious about reinvigorated diplomacy, it must resist Iran’s nuclear extortion and forgo the temptation of re-joining the JCPOA. Breathing life into an expiring accord will not help dampen the Islamic Republic’s nuclear, missile, and military threats.
Op-eds
Parsing Iranian Responses to the Killing of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh-Mahabadi
2020 has proven to be a tough year for the Islamic Republic of Iran. It began with the killing of its most important general and terrorist mastermind, Qassem Soleimani, and now appears to be ending...
Op-eds
Another Bold Strike Against Iran
The killing of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh demonstrates Israel’s capabilities and constrains Biden’s options.
Op-eds
Bad News: Iran’s Centrifuge Assembly Plant is Going Underground
The director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael M. Grossi, confirmed in an interview this week that Iran has begun replacing a key centrifuge assembly plant that a massive...
Op-eds
See No Evil: Europe Supports Genocidal Regime in Iran
Swiss and German economic deals might be aiding Iran’s illicit nuclear weapons program…. The Swiss firm Ceresola TLS reached an agreement [in 2010] with the Rahab Engineering Establishment...
Op-eds
Confronting Iran Before the November Election
The next two months before the November election are critical to the fight against the Islamic Republic of Iran and its nuclear and regional ambitions. The Trump administration must continue its maximum...
Op-eds
Destruction of Iranian Nuclear Facility Should Remind Democrats of Israel’s Unique Value as an Ally
An explosion at the Natanz nuclear complex on July 2 laid waste to the Iran Centrifuge Assembly Center (ICAC), a workshop designed to mass produce thousands of advanced centrifuges for enriching uranium....
Op-eds
Iran Could Face a Summer of Nuclear Sabotage
A powerful explosion destroyed an advanced centrifuge assembly plant in Iran earlier this month, an event which anonymous sources told U.S. journalists was the result of Israeli sabotage. An attack by Jerusalem...
Insights
COVID-19 and the IAEA: Where does the Iran mission stand?
If Iran continues to stonewall, the IAEA should vote to refer the matter to the UN Security Council for the re-imposition of sanctions lifted under the nuclear deal.
Op-eds
As Coronavirus Hinders the IAEA, Who Will Monitor Iran’s Nuclear Program?
While the Iranian regime continues to call for sanctions relief in response to the coronavirus crisis, the regime appears rather content with the pandemic’s debilitating impact on the International Atomic...
Policy Briefs
Israel and US face Iran on parallel planes
Iran has crossed the threshold on low-enriched uranium, shortening significantly the time to produce enough fissile material for a nuclear device.