South Pars/North Dome Gas-Condensate field

December 31, 2025 | Janatan Sayeh |

Iran’s Protests Reach Day Four. Washington Should Heed the Streets.

Swelling waves of dissatisfaction are sweeping the Islamic Republic of Iran into the new year. What began on December 28 as demonstrations in downtown Tehran has crossed the country to Malard, Isfahan,...

December 12, 2025 | Janatan Sayeh |

Iran’s Workers Want To Unite for Better Conditions, but Need Outside Help

Iran’s workers are standing up for themselves and, increasingly, looking to join with others. Nearly 5,000 oil workers marched on December 9 in the South Pars natural gas field, the largest labor mobilization...

October 27, 2025 | Saeed Ghasseminejad |

Qatar’s Calculated Bet on the Islamic Republic

Qatar’s wealth and prestige are built on the incompetence of the rulers of Iran’s Islamic Republic. As long as Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his gang of fools are in charge in Tehran, Doha...

June 14, 2025 | |

‘Hit Every Site and Every Target’: IDF Strikes Iran’s Critical Energy Sector

Israel Begins Striking Iranian Oil Industry: Israeli planes began targeting Iran’s critical energy infrastructure in response to Iran’s continued deadly ballistic missile barrages...

June 14, 2025 | Janatan Sayeh |

Iran announces more casualties, intensifies internal crackdown amid Israeli strikes

As Israel’s military campaign against the Islamic Republic continued on June 14, Brigadier General Effie Defrin, spokesperson for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), said that 70 Israeli aircraft...

October 29, 2024 | Behnam Ben Taleblu, Jonathan Schanzer, Bradley Bowman, Saeed Ghasseminejad, Elizabeth Robbins

Israel’s Retaliatory Strike on Iran and What’s Ahead

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...

April 17, 2019 | Varsha Koduvayur, Greg Everett

Russia’s Gas Web Ensnares Europe

New pipeline projects throughout the Middle East could boost Russian influence there while also ensuring the country’s role as the prime supplier of energy to Europe.

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...