Qasem Soleimani

Team Biden Runs the Syria Playbook on Ukraine

The administration’s horror over Putin’s war is not merely performative, but functional—in the service of realigning with Iran

Biden’s Coming Iran Deal Will Be Even Worse than Obama’s

What the U.S. is agreeing to in Vienna is a shorter and weaker agreement that provides even more sanctions relief in exchange for fewer restrictions.

Republicans need an Iran policy

Republican critics of President Joe Biden’s nuclear diplomacy with Iran see a constantly caving White House refusing to maintain severe sanctions and a credible military threat. If Washington were tougher,...

Iran regime’s ‘Death to America’ wrestling head cancels match with US team after visa denial

Iranian wrestler Alireza Dabir won a gold medal in freestyle wrestling at the 2000 Sydney Olympics

The Post-Post-JCPOA World

Is a nuclear Iran something Republicans must now simply accept?

Biden saves Iran from itself

President Joe Biden came into office pledging to rejoin the 2015 Iran nuclear deal quickly and then negotiate a follow-on agreement to address the deal’s many flaws. A year later, he’s laying the groundwork...

Abu Dhabi attack shows talking to Iran is futile

The regime’s decision to turn on the UAE at such a moment might be one that the Islamic republic will come to regret in the future.

Germany must stop cozying up to Iran

It should sever its relationship with a series of Iranian organizations

Canada Must Support Justice And Closure For The Families Of PS752 Victims

On January 8, 2020, the Islamic Republic of Iran shot down Ukrainian flight PS752, causing the death of 176 people, including 138 Canadian citizens, permanent residents, and others with close ties to Canada....

Iran’s Quest for Soleimani’s Revenge Goes to Latin America

Shortly after a U.S. strike killed Iran’s most senior general, Qassem Soleimani, in Baghdad in January 2020, both Iran and its terror proxy Hezbollah swore revenge. Nearly two years later, Iran and Hezbollah...

Why The Iran Nuclear Talks Were Over Before They Began

Indirect talks between the United States and Iran resumed this week in Vienna with world powers eager to find out if the Islamic Republic would agree to curtail its nuclear program. The truth: the...

Iran nuclear talks are restarting, but they’re pointless: Biden needs a bipartisan strategy

President Joe Biden’s Iran policy is failing, and the indirect negotiations restarting in Vienna Nov. 29 won’t yield a win. Biden assumed that goodwill gestures and proactive concessions would bring...

Malley should go back to the basics

Whatever policy the US special envoy is conducting on Iran does not qualify as diplomacy, but rather as ideology.

A New Threat to Iron Dome

Precision guided munitions will make Israel’s self-defense more challenging and more expensive.

In His Second Term, Trudeau Must Fix His Iran Policy

Last month’s re-election of Justin Trudeau as Canada’s prime minister provides an opportunity to reflect on Ottawa’s relationship with the Islamic Republic in Iran. Iran policy is an issue of great...

The Sanctioned Cabinet of Ebrahim Raisi

Goodbye To All That

Biden may usher in a new era in which we won’t really have an Iran policy at all.

Biden Needs an Effective—and Coercive— Iran Strategy

The Biden administration seems to be on the wrong track. No strategy against the Islamic Republic of Iran can be effective without sustained coercive pressure. Going back in time, the situation is reminiscent...

How Biden can escape the self-created nuclear impasse

Despite the Biden administration’s efforts to finalize an agreement before the inauguration of Ebrahim Raisi as Iran’s new president, Tehran has refused to return to the 2015 nuclear deal, also known...

German Appeasement Of Khamenei Endangers Iranians And The World

Back in 2008, the Wall Street Journal ran an editorial titled “Germany Loves Iran” and a piece headlined “Berlin ♥ Iran III” that covered workshops designed to help companies boost trade with...