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November 17, 2023 | Andrea Stricker, Anthony Ruggiero

Iran’s Nuclear Program Expands Despite U.S. Sanctions Relief 

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the UN nuclear watchdog, reported new data on Wednesday indicating Tehran has expanded its nuclear program since September. The Islamic Republic’s nuclear...

November 15, 2023 | |

Iran Receives Access to $10 Billion Thanks to U.S. Sanctions Waiver

The Biden administration on November 14 extended a sanctions waiver to allow Iran to access upwards of $10 billion in electricity revenue once held in escrow in Iraq. The waiver...

November 15, 2023 | Richard Goldberg |

Congress Should Take Away Iran’s $10 Billion Sanctions Relief 

Just five weeks after the Hamas October 7 massacre, the State Department re-issued a sanctions waiver on November 14 enabling Hamas’s terror sponsor, Iran, to use more than $10 billion in previously inaccessible funds held in Iraq. ...

November 13, 2023 | Seth J. Frantzman |

UAE, Saudi Arabia, Gulf states increase aid to Gaza

The UAE is establishing a 150-bed field hospital. Five planes brought equipment for it last week.

October 27, 2023 | Saeed Ghasseminejad |

How to Curb Tehran’s Oil Exports

Unhindered oil revenues flowing to Tehran will harm U.S. interests.

October 20, 2023 | Richard Goldberg |

Biden is being played by Hamas, Iran and Qatar — with American and Israeli lives at stake

Despite telling the world Hamas is evil, President Joe Biden is pursuing policies of appeasement toward the terrorist group’s two largest patrons and, in so doing, undermining American and...

October 17, 2023 | Rep. Darrell Issa, Richard Goldberg

Biden enriched Iran by more than $50 billion. Here’s how to turn off the spigot

The folly of Team Biden's relentless Iran appeasement has been revealed by the Hamas attacks. It's clear that an anti-Hamas, pro-Iran policy cannot coexist.

October 9, 2023 | Richard Goldberg |

What the US and Israel need to do next in face of Iran terror

Americans watched in shock and disbelief this weekend as horrific videos spread across social media documenting the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. But as shock turns to anger, the White...

October 9, 2023 | Mark Dubowitz, Richard Goldberg

Turning Congressional Outrage Into Action: A U.S. Response to Hamas’ War Against Israel

A wheelchair-bound elderly woman is dragged through the streets. Young children are pulled from their beds away from their mothers. Music lovers are shot in cold blood at a peace concert. The horrific...

September 20, 2023 | |

Syria and China Deepen Ties as Assad Slated to Visit Beijing

Syrian President Bashar Assad will visit Beijing on Thursday, September 21, to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping, Damascus announced this week. The trip — Assad’s first...

September 12, 2023 | Richard Goldberg |

Biden has a secret, illegal deal with Iran that gives mullahs everything they want

In the latest phase of an unacknowledged and unlawful nuclear deal between the United States and Iran, President Joe Biden this week formally approved giving the world’s leading state sponsor...

August 25, 2023 | Andrea Stricker |

Iran’s Nuclear ‘Concession’ May Not Be One at All  

The Wall Street Journal reported on August 11 that Iran has slowed its accumulation of 60 percent enriched uranium — whose production entails 95 to 99 percent of the effort to make weapons-grade uranium...

August 7, 2023 | |

Violence Among Palestinians in Lebanon Spurs Travel Advisories

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) joined a growing list of countries on August 6 warning its citizens against traveling to Lebanon in the wake of clashes between Palestinian militant groups in Ayn al-Hilweh,...

August 4, 2023 | |

U.S. May Put Military Personnel on Commercial Ships to Deter Iran’s Harassment  

The Pentagon is considering placing armed U.S. Marines and Navy sailors on commercial ships in response to increased Iranian attempts to harass and seize vessels traveling through the Strait of Hormuz,...

July 20, 2023 | Natalie Ecanow, Matthew Zweig

Washington’s four-point plan to take down the Syrian narco-trade

That the Biden administration delivered a strategy for countering the Syrian narco-trade is a welcome development. But absent due pressure on Damascus, the strategy will unlikely have any real effect.

July 14, 2023 | Richard Goldberg |

States Should Deliver the Final Blow to BDS at Morningstar

It’s up to governors, attorneys general, and treasurers to rid this company of Israel boycotts once and for all.

July 6, 2023 | Hussain Abdul-Hussain |

The Saudi-Iran Agreement: Should Washington Be Worried?

While a few statements and photo ops here and there might suggest that Saudi Crown Prince and de facto ruler Muhammad Bin Salman (MBS) is in the process of replacing Saudi Arabia’s traditional partner,...

June 1, 2023 | Jacob Nagel |

Saudi normalization should not come at the expense of Israel’s top priority: Preventing a bad Iran deal

Israeli officials should insist on having the US trigger the snapback mechanism in the JCPOA to its fullest extent. This will make it possible to move forward with a Saudi-American-Israeli deal that also addresses Riyadh's nuclear demands. It will also open the door to joint Israeli-American action against the Iranian program.

May 24, 2023 | |

U.S. Navy Increases Patrols in Strait of Hormuz

The U.S. Navy is increasing its patrols of the Strait of Hormuz in response to Iran’s growing threat to commercial shipping and its seizure of two oil tankers during the last two...

May 18, 2023 | Elaine K. Dezenski |

China Is Bailing Out Its Bad Bets, and Handing the West a Geopolitical Opening

China has created its own subprime infrastructure crisis, and now it is trying to bail itself out. The rescue efforts are focused on loans for China’s much-touted Belt and Road Initiative, or BRI, Beijing’s...