Oman Needs to Prevent Iranian Weapons Shipments to Houthis
Secretary of Defense James Mattis arrived in Oman yesterday to meet with...
Strait of Hormuz
Iran Tightens Military Ties with China
Iranian and Chinese security officials signed a military-cooperation agreement this week to establish a...
Policy Briefs
Iran and China Get Cozy
Co-written by Ilan Berman. Scattered among the hundreds of kiosks that made up the massive China–Eurasia Expo held in the western Chinese city of Urumqi in late Sept...
Op-eds
How the Nuclear Deal Enriches Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps
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Monographs
Russia’s Middle East Offensive
Even before Russian bombers launched strikes into Syria from an Iranian air base last month, it was clear that one of President Barack Obama’s more dubious foreign policy legacies would be...
Op-eds
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Chairman Chaffetz, Ranking Member Cummings, members of the Committee, on behalf of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, thank you for the invitation to testify on the Iran nuclear deal....
Congressional Testimonies
What the President Got Wrong in His Defense of the Iran Deal
It’s hard to know where to begin a critique of President Obama’s ...
Op-eds
Why Obama’s Vision of a Weakened Iran Doesn’t Add Up
There was a lot to take issue with in President Barack Obama’s ...
Op-eds
Troubled Waters
“Creating facts on the ground” means changing reality through actions rather than diplomacy. China’s rulers have gone further: Over the last 18 months they have been creating gr...
Op-eds
Making Sense of Iranian S-300s
Iran has a long history of ...
Op-eds
‘Political Piracy’: Iran’s Ship Seizures Aimed at Blocking Nuclear Deal
The brief crisis over the Iranian seizure of the container ship Maersk Tigris in the Strait of Hormuz on April 28th appears to have ended peacefully with the vessel’s release on May 7t...
Op-eds
North Korea’s Takeaway From The Iran Nuclear Talks
In defense of the Iran nuclear talks, Obama administration officials have made a number of unlikely claims, including the repeated proposition that under the current Tehran regime Iran’s nu...
Op-eds
Satrapy Fishing in the Yemen
Three years ago, film-goers were treated to “Salmon Fishing in the Yemen,” which critic Kenneth Turan called a “pleasant fantasy” about the Middle East. Today, of cou...
Op-eds
The Ayatollah in Winter
The Lord works in mysterious ways. That sentence does not appear in the Koran. Nor, actually, is it found in the Bible. But in recent days it has probably occurred to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran...
Op-eds
The Obama-Khamenei Alliance
Never mind the negotiations with Iran over the Islamic Republic's nuclear weapons program. Far more urgent developments are afoot. While the foreign ministers were busily counting how many c...
Op-eds
The Gulf Cooperation Council: Deepening Rifts and Emerging Challenges
Chairman Ros-Lehtinen, Ranking Member Deutch, and distinguished members of the subcommittee, thank you on behalf of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies for the opportunity to discuss tensions in...
Congressional Testimonies
Don’t Forget Iran’s Ballistic Missiles
Last month, the P5+1 and Iran arranged for an extension of Joint Plan of Action (JPOA), the interim nuclear deal that was agreed to in Geneva in late 2013 and implemented in January of this year....
Op-eds
The Gulf Cooperation Council
Chairman Ros-Lehtinen, Ranking Member Deutch, and distinguished members of the subcommittee, thank you on behalf of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies for the opportunity to discuss tensions in...
Op-eds
The Amazing Coincidences of Iran’s Javad Zarif
On Wednesday, in the Red Sea, Israeli commandos intercepted a freighter carrying a secret cargo of munitions loaded in Iran and hidden under bags of cement. The weaponry included dozens of Syrian...
Op-eds
The Persian Triangle
On November 24, 2013, a “Joint Plan of Action” was concluded in Geneva by Iran and the permanent members of the UN Security Council—the United States, the United Kingdom, France...