Iran Charges British Couple With Spurious Espionage Charges
False Allegations of Spying: Iran has charged a British couple with committing espionage, the Islamic Republic’s judiciary announced on February 18. The Islamic Revolutionary...
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
President Biden Should Refuse to Free Iran’s Proliferation Agents
The Biden administration should condition sanctions relief on Tehran’s termination of hostage-taking. The United States’ European allies, currently negotiating alongside Washington, would be wise to demand the same.
Op-eds
European lawmakers demand sanctions on Iran for human rights abuses
Members of the European Parliament have called on trade conditions with Iran to hinge on Tehran improving its appalling human rights record. “Iran is a country where women are imprisoned for being women,”...
Op-eds
US should sanction Iran’s notorious ‘hanging judge’
"The story is as jarring as it is depressingly familiar." In mid-May, Iranian judge Abolghassem Salavati ...
Op-eds
Europe’s Silence
It’s tempting to say that Europe’s leaders lack the courage of their convictions. But that would imply that they have convictions. The evidence suggests those days are gone....
Op-eds
Iranian Budget Hints at British Ransom Payment
This past weekend, British Foreign Minister Boris Johnson departed...
Policy Briefs
Iran’s Repression of Foreign Journalists Intensifies
Iran’s targeting of foreign journalists has intensified. In recent weeks and months, the regime has conducted cyber attacks against Iranian journalists abroad, launched a criminal investiga...
Policy Briefs
New UN Report Highlights Iran’s Continued Human Rights Abuses
Iran’s repression of its own people has continued largely unabated, the United Nations indicated in a new report presented to the UN General Assembl...
Policy Briefs
The nuclear deal is on a knife-edge…but Iran is thriving
The Iran nuclear deal, otherwise known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), that was implemented in January 2016 has emboldened Iran and given its leaders additional resources to pu...
Op-eds
Iran’s Hostages-for-Cash Scheme Continues – How Should the West Respond?
Iran is currently holding Iranian-British charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe hostage to pressure London to pay back hundreds of million pounds it allegedly owes the Islamic Republic....
Op-eds
Iran Deal Cannot Whitewash Regime’s Deplorable Human Rights Record
As we mark the one-year anniversary of the announcement of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) this week, the Iranian regime continues to repress its p...
Op-eds
The Iran Nuclear Agreement: One Year Later
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Congressional Testimonies
Why Are These IRGC Figures Not Sanctioned?
The White House promised Congress last summer that the Iran nuclear accord would not prevent the United States from imposing additional non-nuclear sanctions. Yet Ambassador Stephen Mull, the adm...