Tehran, the Day After
What might happen in Iran if America or Israel bombed the nuclear sites?
Ruhollah Khomeini
Ayatollah Khamenei’s ‘Resistance Economy’
Iran’s supreme leader has an isolationist vision that makes it hard either to coerce or to cajole him.
Op-eds
Protests in Iran Are Surging. The Biden Administration Can Help.
U.S. policy can no longer afford to be limited to seeking a new nuclear deal.
Op-eds
Canada must designate Iran’s revolutionary guard as a terrorist group
Designating the IRGC as a terrorist group would serve as an act of justice that the families of the IRGC’s Canadian victims have long demanded.
Op-eds
Saving the Ayatollahs
Biden’s unwise Iran policy
Op-eds
Dropping IRGC from blacklist would be boon for terrorism
When Former US President Donald Trump designated Iran's Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist group, the White House explained that this move recognized a reality in which Tehran not only funds terrorism but actively participates in it and uses the organization to advance its political goals.
Op-eds
The fall of the Golden Arch Theory
Enriching tyrants doesn’t prevent wars after all
Op-eds
Accommodating Iran Will Be No More Successful Than Accommodating Russia
Putin’s horrifying war in Ukraine shows the likely results of the West continuing to ignore Iran’s nuclear quest
Op-eds
Making Sense of Iran’s Three-Pronged Nuclear Fork In The Road
US officials have deployed an impressive array of metaphors over the past 10 months – from dwindling patience, to a diminishing runway, to a closing window – to describe the Biden administration’s...
Op-eds
What Will Stop the Islamic Republic of Iran
Can the Islamic Republic of Iran — the radical theocratic regime, that is, as opposed to the nation it tyrannizes — fall by the year 2030? That would be a moonshot for the Jewish people, though...
Op-eds
The Post-Post-JCPOA World
Is a nuclear Iran something Republicans must now simply accept?
Op-eds
How “Never again!” became “never mind”
To the fashionably woke, Uyghur lives don’t matter
Op-eds
Iraqi election results confirm Iran’s unpopularity
Iraqi voters this month made it clear they have had enough of Iran’s violent interference in the country’s politics. Under the direction of Tehran’s Quds Force — the external operations arm of its...
Op-eds
US Should Sanction The New Head And Businesses Of Iran’s Martyrs Foundation
Amir Hossein Ghazizadeh Hashemi is settling into a new job as chief of the Foundation of Martyrs and Veterans Affairs, a behemoth linked to the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC). Hashemi was appointed earlier...
Op-eds
Making sense of German electorate’s shift to the Left
Israel should not be under any delusion that the Social Democratic Party has its back. If anything, the slide to the Left, as it is being called in Germany, has serious implications for the Jewish state.
Op-eds
The Coming Sanctions Battle Over Iran’s New President
What good does it do to feign accountability over Raisi but offer impunity and financial access to a regime that has employed and promoted men like Raisi to the heights of political power?
Op-eds
In Ebrahim Raisi, Iran’s clerics have groomed and promoted their ruthless enforcer
This month, Iran held the most boring — and most consequential — presidential election in its history. Boring because the election was rigged virtually from the start. What made it consequential is...
Op-eds
California man imprisoned in Iran is blocked from legal counsel as health worsens, daughter says
The 66-year-old man has been detained by the Iranian government since July 2020
Op-eds
Iran’s Leading Presidential Candidate Has Committed Crimes Against Humanity
Even the prison guards were horrified. In the summer of 1988, at the behest of Iran’s then-supreme leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the regime executed thousands of political dissidents incarcerated...
Op-eds
Khamenei is Iran’s most important voter, and he wants more extremism, not less
Elections have consequences, even in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Nobody knows this better than Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, the country’s most powerful person and most important “voter.” Through...