Richard Grenell

November 27, 2019 | Benjamin Weinthal |

US ambassador blasts German economics minister for China communist comparison

The U.S. ambassador to Germany chided Chancellor Angela Merkel’s economics affairs minister for drawing an insulting parallel between communist China and America. Richard Grenell did not mention...

November 21, 2019 | Behnam Ben Taleblu, Saeed Ghasseminejad

Towards A Bipartisan Iran Protest Policy Playbook

Once again, Iranians have taken to the streets. Spurred initially by cuts in gas subsidies and an increase in petrol prices, up to 100 cities experienced protests, and over 100 people have been killed....

October 30, 2019 | Benjamin Weinthal |

US rebukes Germany for refusal to say Iran’s threat to destroy Israel is anti-Semitic

Threats by Iran to obliterate Israel have been played down by Germany, prompting the Trump administration’s highest-profile ambassador to criticize Chancellor Angela Merkel government’s attitude...

October 5, 2019 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German intelligence reports on Iran’s illicit nuclear activities met with silence from European powers

Serious questions have emerged about the International Atomic Energy Agency’s and the European powers’ silence regarding a series of German intelligence reports documenting the Iranian regime’s...

September 8, 2019 | Benjamin Weinthal |

U.S. Ambassador To ‘Post’ Tehran Mayor Should Be On U.S./EU Sanctions List

Mayor Pirouz Hanachi of Tehran will meet his counterpart Michael Müller in Berlin.

September 7, 2019 | Benjamin Weinthal |

U.S. Ambassador: German Law Permits Ban of Hezbollah

Grenell debunks Merkel’s excuses in blistering commentary

August 28, 2019 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German Federal Criminal Police Investigate Hamas Twitter Due To Propaganda

“The accounts of Hamas must disappear from Twitter! Twitter supports a terrorist organization by providing infrastructure," said Volker Beck.

August 26, 2019 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Germany must re-embrace America, Europe

President Trump has been pointedly criticized for putting pressure on America’s European allies. Critics have even insinuated that he is endangering the alliance. Yet it is Chancellor Angela Merkel’s...

June 4, 2019 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Hezbollah members rise to 1,050 amid growing Jew-hatred-intel

Merkel rejects appeals to ban Lebanese terrorist group.

June 4, 2019 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Pompeo Urges Germany To Follow Britain’s Lead in Outlawing Hezbollah

The German government ignored an urgent plea from the country’s Jewish community.

June 2, 2019 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Merkel allows al-Quds Day march amid rising Jew-hatred

Hezbollah participates in event calling for Israel’s destruction.

May 31, 2019 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Merkel Refuses to Outlaw Hezbollah, Snubbing German Jews After Kippah Row

When asked on Wednesday by The Jerusalem Post numerous times if the German government plans to ban the Lebanese Shi’ite terrorist organization, Merkel and Seehofer refused to answer.

May 29, 2019 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German Intel: Iran Wants To Expand To Weapons Of Mass Destruction

Iran was termed a "risk country" in the 335-page document outlining serious threats to the security and democracy of the state of Bavaria.

May 26, 2019 | Benjamin Weinthal

Kippah Belongs to Germany, Declares Leading German Paper ‘BILD’

“Bild printed a kippah to cut out” because “it should not be allowed” that Jews in Germany have to hide after the Holocaust in order to be safe.

May 26, 2019 | Benjamin Weinthal

U.S. Ambassador Urges Jews In Germany To Wear Kippot And Not Conceal Identity

Grenell, the US ambassador to Germany, tweeted: "The opposite is true. Wear your kippa. Wear your friend’s kippa. Borrow a kippa and wear it for our Jewish neighbors."

May 22, 2019 | Benjamin Weinthal |

BDS Activists Disrupt Israeli Author’s Book Event in Germany

The same BDS supporters who interrupted the book reading have previously crashed a Holocaust survivor's speech. Author Arye Sharuz Shalicar had been speaking about antisemitism in Germany.

May 19, 2019 | Benjamin Weinthal |

U.S. Ambassador: German anti-BDS motion should apply to Iran’s Regime

The US ambassador Richard Grenell suggested that the Bundestag resolution against BDS should apply to Iran's regime because it seeks the destruction of the Jewish state.

May 19, 2019 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Israeli embassy slams German Social Democrats for hosting Iran

The social democrats, including German social democratic foreign minister Heiko Maas, have been under fire for mainstreaming Iranian regime antisemitism and Tehran's goal to destroy Israel.

May 16, 2019 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Nazi Hunter: German Social Democrats Appeased Iranian Holocaust Deniers

Dr. Efraim Zuroff, chief Nazi-hunter for the Simon Wiesenthal Center, accused the German Social Democratic Party think tank of appeasing an Iranian Holocaust denial institute that works with the globa...

May 15, 2019 | Benjamin Weinthal |

U.S. To German Social Democrats: Don’t Host Iran Holocaust Denial Entity

"IPIS, the Iranian MFA think tank, hosted a Holocaust denial conference in 2006. Both Germany and the United States condemned the event."