By Joshua Goodman The Iranian nuclear program is sometimes portrayed as the one foreign policy issue on which Americans and Europeans have come to the same conclusion and taken...
While much has been made about the anti-American bias of Arabic-language television networks like al-Jazeera in recent years, policymakers have largely ignored the incitement and violent propagan...
WASHINGTON - Stuart Levey is worried. The man who served as the architect of economic sanctions against Iran for over six years during the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations is not hid...
Seven Republican senators are demanding that the Obama administration take tougher measures to punish banks still doing business in Iran, and they are threatening to stall the nomination of a top...
A quartet of lawmakers have banded together to raise the prospect of human right sanctions against Iran. A press release reads, in part: The Iran Human Rights and Democracy Promotion Act of...
On Wednesday a new organization came on the scene: Freedom House and the Progressive Policy Institute today announced the creation of an Iran Strategy Task Force, Beyond Sanctions: The Next...
BERLIN – Israel has asked "the German government on all levels to close" the Hamburg-based Iranian EIH bank, Ambassador to Germany Yoram Ben-Ze'ev said in response to a Jerusalem Post query on We...
BERLIN – The European-based Stop the Bomb coalition demonstrated in front of the European-Iranian Trade Bank headquarters in Hamburg on Thursday and called for the closure of EIH because it...
BERLIN – The US Treasury Department last week banned the Hamburg-based European-Iranian Bank (Europaeisch- Iranische Handelsbank) from operating in the US because it finances companies that...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is slated to honor today in the city of Potsdam, just outside of Berlin, the Danish caricaturist Kurt Westergaard, whose cartoons satirizing the Prophet Muhammad a...
It's not every day that House Foreign Affairs Chairman Howard Berman (D-CA) and Ed Royce (R-CA), the ranking member of terrorism subcommittee of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, agree...
The European Union is slated this week to wrap up a new round of sanctions. Their goal is to force Iran to suspend its illicit nuclear program. After years of inaction, the European Union is now...
The European Union is slated this week to wrap up its new round of sanctions. The goal is to force Teheran to suspend its illicit nuclear program. After years of drowsiness, the EU is no...
There is only one thing that terrifies Washington’s foreign policy establishment more than the prospect of an American airstrike against Iran’s nuclear-weapons facilities: an Israeli...
The Long War against radical Islam is a war of ideas as much as a war of arms. Yet, for much of the past decade, the incitement and violent propaganda emanating from satellite television stations...
WASHINGTON – America's international partners are now more willing to resort to sanctions and otherwise pressure Iran than in the past, a top US Treasury official has told The Jerusalem Post....
WASHINGTON – The European Union, for the first time, approved energy sanctions as part of a package of strong steps imposed against Iran Thursday, adding to US efforts to build on the recent pass...
You won't find Khatam al-Anbiya traded on a public stock exchange, but if you own stock in a company that is developing Iran's energy resources, you may well be doing business with it....
The Turkish organizers of the Gaza Strip-bound flotilla that was boarded this morning by Israeli commandos knew well in advance that their vessels would never reach Israeli waters. That's be...
This past week, Matt Apuzzo and Adam Goldman of the Associated Press reported a story that deserved to make a splash but didn’t. The CIA had a highly-classified program in place “to s...