Merkel needs to end support for terrorist Iran’s regime
Germany’s next government (elections are set for September) must break from its unsavory romance with Tehran and start to show a little more love towards Israel.
Ruhollah Khomeini
Why the Coming Iranian Elections Will Challenge the Biden Administration
Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei seems inclined to promote a candidate who will quash dissent over someone who could work with the West.
Op-eds
Redefining Iran’s Role in its Latest ‘Shadow War’ Against Israel
As Iran works to make its proxies more militarily self-sufficient, opportunities for weapons interception will be reduced and claims of attribution against Tehran will become harder.
Op-eds
Washington Cannot Rely on Iran’s Alleged Anti-Nuclear Fatwa
The Islamic Republic of Iran’s intelligence minister, Mahmoud Alavi, stated this week that although Iran’s supreme leader forbade the building of nuclear weapons according to an Islamic edict known...
Policy Briefs
Came the Islamic Revolution
The theocrats who seized power in Iran are still widely misunderstood
Op-eds
Trump’s Iran Achievement
Among Donald Trump’s proudest achievements as president was his withdrawal of the United States from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), his predecessor’s nuclear agreement with Iran. The...
Op-eds
The forgotten refugees of the Middle East
Jews who were forced to flee from their homes in Arab lands
Op-eds
See No Evil: Europe Supports Genocidal Regime in Iran
Swiss and German economic deals might be aiding Iran’s illicit nuclear weapons program…. The Swiss firm Ceresola TLS reached an agreement [in 2010] with the Rahab Engineering Establishment...
Op-eds
The IRGC runs for high office in Tehran
It’s not every day that a former hostage-taker and a man essential to the founding of a designated terrorist organization throws his hat into the ring for president, not even in the Islamic Republic of...
Op-eds
Is Iran’s supreme leader preparing to surrender?
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, marked the 40th anniversary of the Iran-Iraq war last week by praising his predecessor’s decision to drink a “chalice...
Op-eds
Why The Iran-Iraq War Matters For The Success Of Maximum Pressure
“War, War until victory” was a popular slogan chanted by revolutionaries in Tehran amid the bloody Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988). But after years of fighting with no victory in sight, Ayatollah Ruhollah...
Op-eds
The tyrants’ reach
Despots now threaten free speech even in free countries
Op-eds
Big increase of Palestinian terrorist members, supporters in Germany
Support for the the PFLP has risen, which was founded in 1967 and is animated by a Marxist-Leninist doctrine coupled with radical Arab nationalism.
Op-eds
Study war some more
World War II and the Cold War carry useful lessons
Op-eds
Bringing the Middle East Back Home
The American Orientalist Class attempts to paint a fantasy Middle Eastern landscape on the American canvas
Op-eds
New York’s universities stand up against BDS and anti-Semitism
One has to be unusually callous to revel publicly in the coronavirus-related death of an 88-year old Holocaust survivor, yet Leen Dweik did not hesitate. A 2019 graduate of New York University,...
Op-eds
Germany outlaws Iranian-backed terrorist organization Hezbollah
Germany’s interior ministry on Thursday outlawed all of Hezbollah activities within the Federal Republic, boosting the chances of a European-wide ban on the U.S.-designated Lebanese terrorist entity. “The...
Op-eds
The Next Iranian Revolution
Why Washington Should Seek Regime Change in Tehran
Op-eds
Iran vs. Trump: Suleimani’s Legacy, and Khamenei’s Ambitions
The supreme leader and Trump may well end the long-running, region-defining clash. We just don't know yet quite how.
Op-eds
The Islamic Revolution vs. Donald Trump
Iran and Ayatollah Khamenei are more influential today than at any time since 1979.