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November 22, 2017 | Clifford D. May |

The battle for the lands of the caliphate

Soon after taking office, President Trump ordered his national security advisers to provide “a complete strategi...

October 25, 2017 | Clifford D. May |

The Kurdish test

In a just world, the Kurds would have a state of their own. Their culture is ancient. They speak a distinctive language. They have a homeland, Kurdistan, ruled for centuries by Arabs, Turks and P...

October 18, 2017 | Clifford D. May |

Trump’s third way

President Trump made a tough call last week. European diplomats and an “echo chamber” in the mainstream med...

October 12, 2017 | Mark Dubowitz |

‘Decertify, pressure and fix’

Decertifying the nuclear deal with Iran is the first step toward fixing its severe deficiencies that place Iran on a North Korean-style glide path to developing nuclear weapons and intercontinent...

May 11, 2016 | Clifford D. May |

Obama’s ‘boy wonder’

Among the most serious charges that President Obama and his supporters have leveled against President Bush and Vice President Cheney: They “cherry-picked intelligence.” The phrase sug...

August 6, 2015 | Mark Dubowitz |

Amend Iran Deal to Improve It: Opposing View

The Iran nuclear deal has a major structural flaw. Rather than permanently blocking Iran’s nuclear weapons pathways, it opens a patient path. Tehran simply has to follow the deal to emerge...

June 30, 2015 | Mark Dubowitz, Annie Fixler

Iran Talks: Moral Equivalence and the Concession Frenzy

In a written statement, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) observed, “It’s outrageous that a senior U.S. official pointed out that if the United States wouldn’t allow weapons inspectors f...

June 29, 2015 | FDD Press Release |

Iranian Economic Growth After Nuclear Deal Increasingly Immunizes Iran Against Snapback Sanctions

FDD Press Release

March 11, 2015 | Clifford D. May |

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...

March 4, 2015 | Clifford D. May |

The Dubious Deal of the Century

Remember when President Obama said that to prevent the Islamic Republic of Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapons capability, he would keep all options “on the table”? How long has it...

July 25, 2014 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

A Bad Deal

We are in an odd situation. President Barack Obama is trying to coerce and cajole Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, to compromise on his nuclear quest without using America’s only...