Iran’s Nuclear Disarmament
The Only Deal That Protects U.S. and Allied Security
Satan
The Order of Nine Angles
Its Worldview and Connection to Violent Extremism
Memos
Analysis: Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb encourages its Sahelian wing to continue fighting the Islamic State
In a newly released video, Abu Yasir al-Jaza’iri, a senior ideologue within al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), sends a message of encouragement to AQIM’s Sahelian wing, the Group for Support of...
Op-eds
Rushdie attack reveals — again — true nature of Iranian regime
Excerpt On Feb. 14, 1989, Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa, or edict, condemning author Salman Rushdie to death for blasphemy. Rushdie had recently...
Op-eds
Give Sports Bigotry No Sanction
Hamid Sajjadi, Iran’s recently appointed minister of sports, warned Iranian athletes in August not to compete against counterparts from the “child-killing and occupying regime of Israel.” With the...
Op-eds
Why Ebrahim Raisi could be ‘good for the Jews’
Similar to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in his day, there are no fake smiles to the West and no illusions when it comes to Iran's president-elect. He openly states his very clear views, and it will be hard to argue, as a result, that Iran needs to be treated sympathetically.
Op-eds
Shabaab’s jihad against the ‘leaders of disbelief’
Shabaab’s latest video features a clip of Ayman al-Zawahiri criticizing “corrupt regimes” that are allied with America. Shabaab, al Qaeda’s branch in East Africa, has released a lengthy video that...
Op-eds
A Victim of the Hate That Won’t Be Named
Co-written by Ben Cohen. Back in 2002, the serving president of France, Jacques Chirac, huffily told an interviewer from the New York Times, “To imagine that France, the v...
Op-eds
‘Principled Realism’
Donald Trump's recent sojourn in the Middle East leaves the United States where it was before the president departed: His administration remains committed to containing Iran while...
Op-eds
Assad’s Industrial Killing Machine
On Monday, the State Department revealed that it possessed evidence that Syria’s Bashar al-Assad regime was operating an industrial crematorium at the Saydnaya...
Op-eds
Khamenei’s Latest Moves to Solidify Hardline Gains
The legendary cleric Abbas Vaez Tabasi died this month after thirty-seven years supe...
Op-eds
Turkey – Where Everyone Believes God is On Their Side
Six days after Turkey reluctantly joined the US war effort against ISIS with its ...
Op-eds
The FIFA Farce and the Palestinians
FIFA, the world’s soccer governing body, has fallen on hard times. Last week U.S. authorities filed a sweeping 47-count indictment against 14 FIFA-linked officials over what they called &ld...
Op-eds
When Iran Goes Nuclear
Our attention these days with regard to security is understandably riveted on the Islamic State, or ISIS, and its hideous decapitations, rapes and live immolations. We must deal with the...
Op-eds
Bursa-Bound: Ahmadinejad’s Trip to Turkey
On February 26, an Iran Air flight landed in Istanbul carrying a prominent passenger in seat 19F: former Iranian President...
Policy Briefs
Don’t Forget Sexual Minorities In Iran
Co-authored by Arsham Parsi While the world powers prepare for a July negotiation session with Iran over its illicit nuclear program, the deteriorating situation for sexual mino...
Op-eds
Human Rights Groups Call on Iran’s Regime to Stop Violent Repression of Gays
Human rights activists from international organizations ramped up their pressure in a late December letter to Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani, calling on him to swiftly end Iran’s per...
Op-eds
Syrian Refugees Blame Hezbollah, Syria’s Main Allies for Their Plight
ON THE TURKISH-SYRIAN BORDER – Syrian refugees, who have gone to great lengths to escape President Bashar Assad’s bombing campaign, attribute a large part of the violence in their cou...
Op-eds
Wishing for an Iranian Moderate
There’s nothing wrong with wishful thinking — unless it gets confused with serious thinking. Policy makers and legislators have a professional responsibility to resist that temptation...
Op-eds
Ahmadinejad Shows His Soft Side in UN Speech
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a devout, sincerely spiritual, loyal foot soldier of the Islamic revolution, gave his variation of John Lennon’s “Imagine” before the United Nations on Wedn...