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August 16, 2021 | Saeed Ghasseminejad |

How Biden can escape the self-created nuclear impasse

Despite the Biden administration’s efforts to finalize an agreement before the inauguration of Ebrahim Raisi as Iran’s new president, Tehran has refused to return to the 2015 nuclear deal, also known...

December 2, 2020 | Saeed Ghasseminejad |

Key Targets Remain for U.S. Sanctions on Iran

The U.S. Department of the Treasury last week sanctioned the Mustazafan Foundation, one of three critical holdings in the business empire of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The Trump administration,...

October 30, 2020 | Saeed Ghasseminejad |

U.S. Should Sanction Key Iranian Automobile Companies

Iranian Air Force commander Brigadier General Aziz Nasirzadeh announced earlier this month that the Air Force and the Iranian automobile manufacturer SAIPA would co-produce unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV)...

March 25, 2020 | Saeed Ghasseminejad |

Coronavirus Dashes Iranian Hopes of Emerging from Multi-Year Recession

After a catastrophic year in which Iran’s clerical dictatorship watched the country’s economy shrink by 9.5 percent under pressure from U.S. sanctions, the first weeks of 2020 brought some hope that...

January 28, 2016 | Saeed Ghasseminejad |

France just formally welcomed the Iranian president — and his checkbook

Hassan Rouhani visited Paris on Thursday, part of the first European visit by an Iranian president in 16 years. The trip, which follows Rouhani’s visit to Rome earlier in the week, is aimed...

February 23, 2015 | Emanuele Ottolenghi, Saeed Ghasseminejad

Sanctions Relief under the JPOA

FDD Report

March 25, 2014 | Emanuele Ottolenghi, Benjamin Weinthal

Switzerland Is Open To Iranian Business

During his recent appearance before the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Iran’s president, Hassan Rouhani said that Iran is “ready to welcome entrepreneurs and big economic...

February 10, 2014 | Mark Dubowitz

Negotiations on Iran’s Nuclear Program

Chairman Menendez, Ranking Member Corker, members of the Committee, on behalf of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), thank you for inviting me to testify today on the implementation...

December 9, 2013 | Mark Dubowitz, Jonathan Schanzer FDD Iran Sanctions Analysis

The Real Value of Auto Sanctions Relief to Iran

FDD Iran Sanctions Analysis

December 2, 2013 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

The Ayatollah’s Windfall

Co-authored by Saeed Ghasseminejad  If any proof was needed that the nuclear compromise hammered out in Geneva last month between Iran and the six world powers is a mi...

May 13, 2013 | Mark Dubowitz, Emanuele Ottolenghi

Iran’s Car Industry – A Big Sanctions Buster

Over the past six years, the United States and its European allies have imposed an impressive sanctions regime against Iran. Sanctions have successfully caused severe stress to Iran’s econo...