South Pars/North Dome Gas-Condensate field

October 21, 2022 | Tony Badran |

Biden’s energy policy is empowering the West’s enemies

The story of how the Biden administration crippled American energy production is well known, as are the disastrous consequences of those actions. Yet those same energy policies have also played a critical,...

October 28, 2020 | Jonathan Spyer, Benjamin Weinthal

America Should Not Sell F-35 Fighter Planes to the Qatari Regime

Israeli energy minister Yuval Steinitz, speaking to the Ynet website on Sunday, expressed concern that despite Jerusalem’s objections, Qatar will eventually acquire state-of-the-art Lockheed Martin...

December 12, 2017 | Richard Goldberg |

Warning to Congress: Bad Iran Legislation Is Worse Than No Iran Legislation

In October, President Donald Trump took an important step toward countering Iran’s ever-expanding list of illicit activities by...

July 18, 2017 | Saeed Ghasseminejad, John Hannah

If Trump Is Serious About Curbing Iran, He’ll Kill Boeing’s Plan to Sell It Planes

You may have missed it, but there was big news on the Iran front earlier this month. After much hesitation, Total, the French energy giant, plunged back into the Iranian...

February 17, 2017 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

The Face-Off

Donald Trump has promised a foreign policy of muscular retrenchment, in which a better-resourced U.S. military intimidates our enemies without serving as a global cop. More than any pr...

November 18, 2016 | Saeed Ghasseminejad |

Iran’s First Major Post-Deal Oil Contract Is Risky Business

Iran last week struck its first major oil agreement with international firms following the lifting of nuclear-related...

November 5, 2015 | |

Panzer auf der Landebahn

Bei seiner Antrittsrede vor den iranischen Revolutionsgarden am 16. September 2013 schlug der neu gewählte Präsident Hassan Rohani den versammelten Kommandeuren einen Deal vor: Die Revo...

July 27, 2015 | |

EU Delisting of IRGC Construction Giant Will Boost Terror Financing

The Iran nuclear deal signed July 14 stipulates that eight years after its implementation, the European Union will delist a construction conglomerate owned by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp...

July 17, 2015 | Emanuele Ottolenghi, Saeed Ghasseminejad

The Nuclear Deal’s Impact on Iran’s Revolutionary Guards

One of the foremost beneficiaries of the Iran nuclear deal sign...

December 10, 2013 | FDD Policy Brief |

Rouhani’s Economic Battles with the IRGC

President Hassan Rouhani’s September 16, 2013 address to the commanders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) &ndash...

October 7, 2013 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Seeing Through the Sheep’s Clothing

Co-authored by Saeed Ghasseminejad In his address to the United Nations, Benjamin Netanyahu described Hassan Rouhani as a wolf in sheep’s clothing, but you’d ha...

September 25, 2013 | Emanuele Ottolenghi FDD Policy Brief |

Rouhani’s Corrupt Cabinet

Co-authored by Saeed Ghasseminejad Most Western observers welcomed the end of former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s term with a sigh of relief, interpreting new p...

September 3, 2013 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Jonathan Schanzer

Why Qatar Is Quietly Supporting a U.S. Strike in Syria

DOHA, Qatar – After establishing itself as the epicenter of Syria’s opposition factions, punctuated by the establishment of a rebel embassy in Doha, Qatar is now adopting a distinctly...

July 12, 2012 | Emanuele Ottolenghi The Weekly Standard |

Are Iranian Sanctions Working?

Despite all evidence that sanctions are hurting Iran's economy, four rounds of nuclear talks failed to prove that Iran's regime is now more malleable to a compromise. Diplomacy will con...

May 6, 2011 | Hamsayeh.Net

Iran to Start Work on Phases 17 and 18 of the Giant South Pars Gas Field in Fall

Hamsayeh.Net - Iran plans to begin work on 2 separate phases of the giant South Pars Field in the Persian Gulf early this fall, Iranian oil official told reporters. Phases 17 and 18 of the g...

January 9, 2011 | The Jerusalem Post

Are EU Sanctions Influencing Iran’s Behavior?

Europe's submissive attitude toward Iran and its nuclear weapons program must change, political analyst Diana Gregor, a leading expert in Central European policies vis-a-vis Iran told Benjam...

September 13, 2010 | Mark Dubowitz, Reuel Marc Gerecht Wall Street Journal

To Pressure Iran, Squeeze Russia and China

In 1996 Congress passed the Iran-Libya Sanctions Act with the aim of, among other things, pressuring the regime in Tehran to stop sponsoring terrorism. For a time, the sanctions did annoy those w...

August 19, 2010 | Jerusalem Post

US: Swiss-Iran Gas Deal Sends ‘Wrong Message’

BERLIN – Swiss energy giant EGL's €18 billion gas contract with Iran prompted criticism on Tuesday from the US Embassy. "As we noted in the past when this deal was first announced, oil a...

July 19, 2010 | Emanuele Ottolenghi, Mark Dubowitz Wall Street Journal Europe

Tightening the Sanctions Noose on Tehran

In the coming days, the European Union will hopefully adopt tough new measures designed to push Tehran to halt its illegal nuclear activities. "Sanctions have become inevitable," EU leaders said...

June 13, 2010 | Telegraph

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Cash in After a Year of Suppressing Dissent

In return for standing by him in the bloody crackdown that saw thousands arrested and up to 100 people killed, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has awarded a series of lucrative oil and gas deals to G...