Presidency of Joe Biden

July 3, 2024 | Behnam Ben Taleblu, Janatan Sayeh

Iran’s ‘election’ seeks to consolidate regime control

Iran’s Guardian Council, a 12-person body appointed by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei that approves candidates for office, permitted six out of 80 potential candidates to run in the special presidential...

June 28, 2024 | Hussain Abdul-Hussain |

Should Biden let Hezbollah and the Houthis get a say in Gaza?

The US administration's 'no war whatsoever' policy signals to Iran that America is toothless and that the Islamic Republic can act with impunity

June 27, 2024 | |

Iran’s Supreme Leader Pushes for ‘Maximum’ Turnout in Presidential Election Amid Voter Disillusionment

On the eve of Iran’s June 28 presidential election, the Islamic Republic’s leaders have bolstered efforts to drive voters to the polls. Yet the clerical regime faces widespread...

June 25, 2024 | |

Biden Administration Allows Iran to Run Absentee Voter Stations on U.S. Soil

The Biden administration is permitting Iran to set up absentee voter sites for its upcoming presidential election on U.S. soil, Voice of America (VOA) reported on June 22. Iranian...

June 7, 2024 | |

New Report Determines Percentage of Civilian Casualties Has Fallen Sharply in Gaza

Latest Developments Despite persistent claims from the Hamas-run Ministry of Health that women and children account for more than 70 percent of fatalities in Gaza, the ministry’s own data show that...

June 5, 2024 | |

U.S. House of Representatives Votes for Sanctions Against International Criminal Court

The U.S. House of Representatives voted by a comfortable majority on June 4 to impose sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC) following its prosecutor’s decision to...

June 1, 2024 | Jonathan Schanzer |

The Policies That Are Killing Israeli Soldiers

Three soldiers from Israel Defense Forces (IDF) were killed on May 28, when they encountered a Hamas booby trap in a building in Rafah. In a separate incident, three other soldiers were...

May 10, 2024 | Janatan Sayeh, Behnam Ben Taleblu, Saeed Ghasseminejad

Why the Biden Administration’s Iran Sanctions Waivers Are Futile

The Islamic Republic also has a history of diverting resources intended for humanitarian purposes.

April 27, 2024 | |

Blinken to Address Normalization With Israel During Visit to Saudi Arabia 

Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Saudi Arabia on April 28 for the World Economic Forum. While in Riyadh, Blinken is expected to discuss the normalization of Saudi-Israeli...

March 13, 2024 | Caleb Weiss |

Shabaab retakes territory as the U.S. sanctions one of its money laundering networks

Shabaab, al-Qaeda’s branch in East Africa, is steadily undoing progress made by Somali security services in its nearly two year old counter-offensive against the group. Over the last few days, the group...

March 13, 2024 | Clifford D. May |

The state of the world

It’s more threatening to America than Biden understands

October 27, 2023 | Saeed Ghasseminejad |

How to Curb Tehran’s Oil Exports

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

October 18, 2023 | |

Lax U.S. Sanctions Enforcement Yields Windfall for Iran’s Terrorist Proxies

Iran’s foreign minister on October 18 called for an embargo of Israel by oil-producing nations to protest Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza. Hossein Amir-Abdollahian also urged...

September 28, 2023 | Saeed Ghasseminejad |

The Monetary Value of Relaxed Oil Sanctions Enforcement by the Biden Administration

“U.S. officials privately acknowledge they’ve gradually relaxed some enforcement of sanctions on Iranian oil sales,” Bloomberg News revealed last month. The dollar value of this sanctions relief...

September 13, 2023 | Richard Goldberg

A Dangerous Strategy: Examining the Biden Administration’s Failures on Iran

August 5, 2023 | Elaine K. Dezenski, John Austin

What Washington Must Do to Check China’s Coercion

The Western offer to the Global South need not premise itself on rejecting China but instead on the rules of the liberal, open capitalist system through which China and the United States have all thrived.

December 12, 2022 | |

Biden Administration Refuses to Rule Out Sanctions Relief for Iran

When asked last week whether nuclear negotiations with Iran were still ongoing, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said, “We continue to believe that ultimately diplomacy is the most...

November 26, 2022 | Cleo Paskal |

‘PRC’s political warfare is total war without fighting major kinetic wars’

Kerry Gershaneck, a former US Marine officer and a university professor, speaks to The Sunday Guardian.

August 21, 2022 | Caleb Weiss |

Analysis: Thirty hour long hotel siege emblematic of Somalia’s remaining security challenges

On Friday, Shabaab, al Qaeda’s branch in East Africa, launched a coordinated suicide assault on the Hayat Hotel in Somalia’s capital of Mogadishu. Almost 30 hours later it was ended by Somali security...

August 19, 2022 | Matthew Zweig, Jonathan Schanzer

The Easy Way To Reset Saudi Ties: Sanction The Houthis Again

President Biden’s travel to Saudi Arabia last month yielded little improvement in the relationship between the Biden administration and the Saudi government under Crown Prince Muhammed Bin Salman. Distrust...