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September 6, 2024 | Antonette Bowman

As Authoritarians Rise Abroad, Who Should Teach Democracy in American K-12 Schools?

Although the United States is a wonderfully diverse country with vast resources and a population of more than 330,000,000 people from virtually every race, religion, and background, the country can’t...

September 14, 2023 | Behnam Ben Taleblu

Remarks by Behnam Ben Taleblu at FDD Event Promoting Maximum Support for the People of Iran One Year After Mahsa Amini’s Murder

We all have a song. A song whose lyrics resonate not just with us. But beyond us. That’s what “Baraye” or “For” in Persian, by Shervin Hajipour, became just over one year ago to Iranian protestors....

March 3, 2021 | Clifford D. May |

Uniting France

President Macron deserves credit for trying

February 22, 2021 | Mark Dubowitz, Behnam Ben Taleblu

Biden squanders leverage Trump stockpiled on Iran in pursuit of a defective nuclear deal

The administration’s strategy for getting Iran to play ball clearly involves making upfront concessions to Tehran for nothing in return.

June 14, 2020 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Exile Iranians, Reporters without Borders want cleric arrested for torture

Kaveh Moussavi, an exile Iranian, told the German Die Welt paper that Mansouri was involved in a crime operation that caused “the murder and ultimately the torture of at least one person.”

August 13, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Iran regime ramps up crackdown on persecuted Christians after US sanctions

U.S. sanctions on Iran have inadvertently led to a crackdown on its persecuted Christian community as the ayatollahs move to consolidate their power in the face of growing unrest across the count...

June 3, 2018 | John Hannah |

How Far Is Trump Willing to Go to Change Iran’s Behavior?

"Surrender Dorothy.” That’s the phrase from The Wizard of Oz that I couldn’t quite get out of my head as I read through Secretary of State Mike Pompe...

May 20, 2018 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

Iran: The Shi’ite Imperial Power

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April 23, 2018 | Behnam Ben Taleblu |

Iran spreads lies claiming America supports terrorists after US-led attack on Syria

Iran has been filling the airwaves and the Internet with anti-American lies, slander and ridiculous conspiracy theories since the U.S., Britain and France launched missile strikes on Syria April...

April 12, 2018 | Tzvi Kahn |

U.S. Should Sanction Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB)

In an interview last week with Bloomberg’s Eli Lake, Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi...

April 12, 2018 | Reuel Marc Gerecht

Pulling Out of the Nuclear Deal Won’t Send Iran Rushing to Build a Bomb

As speculation mounts that President Trump will abandon the 2015 agreement to limit the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program, the agreement’s defenders have begun predicting tha...

April 12, 2018 | Reuel Marc Gerecht

Save Print This Post Send to Kindle Iran Says It Could Enrich Uranium to 20% Within Two Days

On the occasion of its National Nuclear Day, Iran boasted that it could enrich uranium to 20% in just two days’ time, if the United States would withdraw from the deal, the Associated Press...

April 4, 2018 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

Why Iran won’t rush to a bomb if Trump pulls out of the nuclear deal

With John Bo...

April 2, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Austrian bank in Iran freezes business fearing U.S. sanctions

Austria’s Oberbank, which, as a result of the 2015 nuclear deal became the first European bank to enter Iran’s financial system, announced it has not moved forward with business trans...

March 12, 2018 | Alexandra N. Gutowski |

Russia Can’t Solve Israel’s Security Dilemma

Israel lost its first aircraft in combat since the early 1980s last month. Syrian air defe...

March 2, 2018 | Jonathan Schanzer, Mark Dubowitz

Australia must not be duped into softening its stance on Iran

China and North Korea topped the list of mutual security concerns last week when Malcolm Turnbull met US President Donald Trump in Washington. The meetings were widely viewed as positive...

February 23, 2018 | Saeed Ghasseminejad

The Dire Consequences of Iran’s Water Crisis

The Islamic Republic’s decades-long mismanagement of water resources has led to a shortage of...

January 30, 2018 | Romany Shaker

Iran’s relationship with Qatar could be polarizing

Tensions between the Gulf states and Qatar developed into an outright feud last June as a result of Qatar’s drift toward Iran, which led the Saudis and their partners to impose a boycott an...

January 2, 2018 | Reuel Marc Gerecht

The Worst Thing for Iran’s Protesters? U.S. Silence

We are now six days into the Iran protests, and the questions that seized Washington during the 2009 pro-...

January 1, 2018 | Mark Dubowitz |

Iran’s Theocracy Is on the Brink

Iran has a peculiar habit of surprising Americans. It has done so again with the protests engulfing its major cities. The demonstrations began over economic grievances and quickly transformed int...