Iran’s New Patrons
Why China and Russia Are Stepping Up Their Support
Reuel Marc Gerecht
Israel Missed Its Moment
It might have had a chance to stop Iran’s nuclear ambitions a few years ago, but the Middle East has changed.
Op-eds
Cloak and Swagger
REVIEW: ‘Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West’ by Calder Walton
Op-eds
China and Russia Encourage Iran to Go Nuclear
An aloof U.S. leaves a regional vacuum that the Islamic Republic is exploiting brilliantly.
Op-eds
The Threat of an Emboldened Iran
The Islamic Republic has allies and patrons in Russia and China.
Op-eds
Iran Denies Schoolgirls Were Poisoned Despite Overwhelming Evidence
Following an investigation, Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence announced on April 28 that no poisoning of schoolgirls has occurred in the country. Instead, the statement blamed unidentified...
Flash Briefs
Smears and Myths—The October Surprise Revisited
The New York Times revives the claim that Reagan won in 1980 by conspiring to prolong the Iran hostage crisis.
Op-eds
New Chemical Attacks in Iran Hospitalize Schoolgirls
Latest Developments At least 20 Iranian schoolgirls were hospitalized today in the city of Tabriz after a new wave of chemical attacks, Iranian state media reported. The “vital signs … and the...
Flash Briefs
Iranians Renew Protests as Regime Brutality Persists
Latest Developments Iranians renewed protests against Tehran’s clerical regime this week to mark the country’s traditional fire festival, a celebration with Zoroastrian roots linked to the Persian new...
Flash Briefs
How Iran’s Regime Is Threatened by Its Clerics
A new wrinkle in the Islamic Republic’s continuing political crisis
Op-eds
Intention, Not Capacity
The White House’s new way of seeing the Iranian bomb.
Op-eds
The Iranian theocracy’s downfall is a goal worth working toward
Fate is sometimes kind to America. Such merciful intervention happened last summer when Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, rejected the Biden administration’s effort to revive former President Barack...
Op-eds
Iran, America, and the Democratic Impulse
The collapse of the theocracy could change American attitudes about promoting democracy.
Op-eds
Biden Calls for a Free Iran
“We’re gonna free Iran,” said President Joe Biden on Thursday. “They’re gonna free themselves pretty soon.” A White House spokesperson appeared to back-pedal the statement the next day, saying that Biden was merely “expressing, again, our solidarity” with Iranian protestors rather than articulating a new U.S. policy. Still, the president’s declaration constitutes an apparent endorsement of regime change in Iran, implicitly repudiating his current policy, which centers on engaging the regime in hopes of reviving the 2015 nuclear deal.
Flash Briefs
The Women Burning Their Hijabs Want the Iranian Regime to Fall. Does Joe Biden?
The White House is still ardently seeking a nuclear deal that will enrich the men murdering women in the streets.
Op-eds
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.
Op-eds
The Israeli Moment
If anyone is going to derail the Islamic Republic’s regional ambitions, Israel is really the only local counterweight that counts.
Op-eds
Can the Intelligence Community Tell What’s Brewing in Afghanistan?
Excerpt Whenever the United States gets traumatized by the unexpected abroad, discussions inevitably start about the inadequacy of American intelligence collection and analysis. There is truth behind this...
Op-eds
The Challenge of Containing a Nuclear Iran
Barring a great surprise, the Islamic Republic will get its nuke. How will the U.S. respond?
Op-eds
Prepare for covert war in Ukraine
If the West isn’t willing to watch Vladimir Putin win in Ukraine yet also aren’t willing to intervene directly to stop him, then they will likely need to devise extensive clandestine means to supply...