Qasem Soleimani

The Attack on America’s Future

Cyber-Enabled Economic Warfare

The Dangers of Iran’s Cyber Ambitions

A new reality means Israel will have to strike Lebanon

Recent examples of US weapon shipments to Ukraine demonstrate the problem that Israel could face if Iran and its allies lay their hands on them.

Israel’s Defense Minister Reveals Syrian Military Sites Used to Produce Advanced Weapons for Iran

At a Jerusalem Post conference in New York on Monday, Israel’s Defense Minister, Benny Gantz, revealed a map displaying Syrian arms manufacturing facilities used to produce advanced weapons for Tehran...

Deal or No Deal, Israel Must Restore a Credible Military Threat

The Iranian regime and the US are exchanging drafts of what is being described again as a “take it or leave it, last chance [nuclear] deal.” Both sides will not admit publicly to having compromised,...

Waiting for Thermidor: America’s Foreign Policy Towards Iran

The Islamic Republic of Iran may be on an accelerated schedule for revolutionary decay, at least if compared to the USSR.

A New Iran Deal Would Empower Palestinian Islamic Jihad

Iran would receive approximately $275 billion in sanctions relief during the first year of a new nuclear deal and more than $1 trillion by 2030, according to an FDD analysis. If past is prologue, a significant...

Iran Targets Salman Rushdie

An admirer of the regime in Iran attacked the author Salman Rushdie on August 12, stabbing him roughly 10 times minutes before his scheduled lecture in Chautauqua, New York. Rushdie faces a long “road to recovery,” stated his agent. He may even lose an eye. European and Middle Eastern intelligence officials said the assailant, 24-year-old Hadi Matar of Fairview, New Jersey, had contacts with members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). A U.S. law enforcement official said Matar’s posts on social media show his sympathies to Shia extremism and IRGC causes.

Totalitarians Inc.

Why is Joe Biden alternately ignoring and funding the ever-closer alliance between Iran and Putin?

Assessing Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s Military Capabilities After the August 2022 Conflict

Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) is the second-largest terrorist organization in the Gaza Strip after Hamas. Over the years, PIJ has strengthened its military capabilities with significant assistance from Iran, and particularly the Quds Force, the foreign operations arm of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Until the United States killed him in 2020, Quds Force Commander Qassem Soleimani personally supervised this military build-up. Today, the Quds Force continues to fund and arm PIJ under the leadership of Esmail Qaani.

Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) is an Iran-Supported Terror Organization

On Friday, the IDF launched Operation Breaking Dawn to preempt attacks by Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), a U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization since 1997. Since the fighting began, Palestinian militants have launched some 600 rockets at Israeli targets, including Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, while hundreds of thousands of Israelis have taken refuge in bomb shelters.

Tehran, the Day After

What might happen in Iran if America or Israel bombed the nuclear sites?

Iran Is Testing Us. So Far, We Are Failing

In February, a jet carrying Iran’s minister of the interior, Ahmad Vahidi, landed at Pakistan’s Nur Khan air base and he was not arrested. He should have been. Vahidi, and four other senior...

Biden needs to share intel, get out of the way and let Israel end Iran nuclear threat

President Biden’s private meeting Thursday with Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid will likely become one of the most consequential conversations of his presidency. After 18 months of failed diplomacy...

The Israeli Moment

If anyone is going to derail the Islamic Republic’s regional ambitions, Israel is really the only local counterweight that counts.

Hamas as Tehran’s Agent

Since the late 1980s, the Islamic Republic of Iran has been plying the Hamas terrorist group with cash and weapons while also teaching it how to be self-sufficient. With hundreds of millions of dollars...

Deal or no deal

Iran’s rulers may be demanding too much even for Biden

The Kremlin’s Latin American Echo Chamber

A trio of Spanish language media networks controlled by Iran, Russia, and Venezuela push out propaganda and disinformation to demonize the West.

Iran’s Hackers Are Opportunistic, Patient, and Fearless

Iranian hackers are dangerous not because they have uniquely sophisticated techniques but because they are increasingly less risk-averse than other cyber actors.

Dropping IRGC from blacklist would be boon for terrorism

When Former US President Donald Trump designated Iran's Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist group, the White House explained that this move recognized a reality in which Tehran not only funds terrorism but actively participates in it and uses the organization to advance its political goals.