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January 20, 2025 | Dr. Brenda Shaffer, Dalga Khatinoglu

Iran’s Energy Crisis

Iran is experiencing a systemic energy crisis. While many times in the past, Iran has had gas shortages or refined product shortages, this time Iran is undergoing an energy meltdown, with parallel shortages...

October 29, 2024 | Seth J. Frantzman |

Iran’s military budget is growing: What does that mean for the Middle East?

Iran wants to increase the accuracy of its range and the overall number of its ballistic missiles.

August 2, 2024 | Peter Doran |

Biden’s massive Russian prisoner swap comes with major trouble for next president

Swap freed prominent prisoners held by Russia, but Biden may incentivize more hostage taking

July 24, 2024 | Clifford D. May |

America held hostage

Rewarding thugs is not an adequate policy response

March 20, 2024 | Clifford D. May |

Attack TikTok

Cut its Chinese Communist ties

October 21, 2023 | Reuel Marc Gerecht, Ray Takeyh

Forget the Bomb and Help Iranians Fight Their Regime

All the other options have failed.

September 7, 2022 | David Shedd, Ivana Stradner

Waging Psychological War Against Russia

The U.S. has a real opportunity to erode Putin’s propaganda.

March 31, 2022 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

The Challenge of Containing a Nuclear Iran

Barring a great surprise, the Islamic Republic will get its nuke. How will the U.S. respond?

March 12, 2022 | James Brooke |

Russia sanctions grow faster, larger than South Africa sanctions in 1980s

When I lived in Moscow, I worked for Bloomberg, banked at Citibank, used my Visa card at Ikea, lunched at McDonald’s and flew home on Aeroflot to New York. As of this week, all that is over. As more than...

August 6, 2021 | Thomas Joscelyn |

Taliban assassinates senior Afghan media official

Taliban gunmen assassinated Dawa Khan Menapal, the director of the Afghan government’s information and media center, earlier today. The assassins opened fire on a car carrying Menapal on Darul Aman Road...

June 23, 2021 | Clifford D. May |

Swiss miss

Biden blew a chance for a win in his meeting with Putin

November 20, 2020 | Gregory D. Koblentz, Andrea Stricker

Trump Should Act Against Russia’s Use of Chemical Weapons

Existing sanctions aren’t deterring Moscow. Fortunately, there’s bipartisan agreement on the need for new ones.

April 15, 2020 | Clifford D. May |

Voices of America

Obama holdovers run U.S. global media, and they’re not giving it up

February 27, 2020 | Svante Cornell, Dr. Brenda Shaffer

The United States Needs to Declare War on Proxies

The most important takeaway from the killing of Qassem Suleimani doesn’t just have to do with Iran.

July 18, 2019 | Bill Roggio |

Taliban kills 25 Afghan commandos

The Taliban killed 25 members of the Afghan National Army’s commandos during recent fighting in the northwestern province of Badghis. The commandos are the most effective Afghan military formation a...

June 24, 2019 | Thomas Joscelyn |

Islamic State claims attack on Chechen leader’s home in Grozny

An Islamic State loyalist was shot and killed yesterday outside the home of Chechnya’s leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, in the capital of Grozny. RT, a pro-Kremlin site, reported that the 23 year-old assailant...

March 5, 2019 | Thomas Joscelyn, Bill Roggio

UN: Al Qaeda continues to view Afghanistan as a ‘safe haven’

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August 3, 2018 | Reuel Marc Gerecht, Ray Takeyh

The Preeminent Challenge

The biggest foreign-policy challenge before Donald Trump isn’t North Korea, where the usual pattern of diplomacy and deception persists. Nor is it Russia; it doesn’t have the mus...

January 4, 2018 | Behnam Ben Taleblu |

How the U.S. Can Support Iran’s Anti-Regime Protests

As Iranian authorities brace for a second week of antigovernment protests, the Trump administration is weighing measures to lend support to the demonstrators. ... Behnam...

April 3, 2017 | Behnam Ben Taleblu

Increasing the Effectiveness of Non-Nuclear Sanctions Against Iran

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