Snap-Back: A Journey Through Iranian Sanctions Evasion in Georgia
Two Iranian truck drivers sat idly in the parking area of the Poti Free Industrial Zone(FIZ), waiting for customs authoriti...
Toronto
Terrorist Financing and the Implications for Canada
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Congressional Testimonies
Doomed Diplomacy
Not long after his inauguration in January 2009, President Barack Obama penned a letter to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of Iran. As a presidential candidate, Obama had promised...
Op-eds
Analysis: Arab Revolts, New Iranian Leader Fail to Bring Israel-Style Rights for LGBTs
Perhaps the most neglected major news story unfolding in the Middle East is the systematic repression of the region’s LGBT community. For the Middle East's le...
Op-eds
Don’t Forget Sexual Minorities In Iran
Co-authored by Arsham Parsi While the world powers prepare for a July negotiation session with Iran over its illicit nuclear program, the deteriorating situation for sexual mino...
Op-eds
The Politics of Genocide
Spring is a season for black memories. April 24 marked the beginning of the Armenian Genocide in 1915. April 27 was Yom HaShoah, a day for Holocaust remembrance. The Rwandan Genocide, in which Hu...
Op-eds
Sketching North Korea’s Sadism
Earlier this month, North Korea publicly executed as many as 80 citizens for such “crimes” as owning a Bible and watching Western movies. According to the South Korean newspaper ...
Op-eds
Political, Economic, and Security Situation in Africa
Watch the hearing here. Chairman Kaine, Ranking Member Risch...
Congressional Testimonies
Global al Qaeda: Affiliates, Objectives, and Future Challenges
Chairman Poe, Ranking Member Sherman and members of the Committee, thank you for inviting me here today to discuss the threat posed by al Qaeda. We have been asked to “examine the nature of...
Congressional Testimonies
Forget Diplomacy: With Iran, Pressure Works
Diplomats often have a hard time being frank for the entirely understandable reason that they have to talk to the same foreigners day after day. Their love of process – the elevation of mea...
Op-eds
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: Guardians of the Revolution and Violators of Human Rights
Honorable members of this subcommittee, I am privileged to appear before you today to discuss the role of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in a vast system of domestic repres...
Congressional Testimonies
Assessing the Threat to the Homeland from al Qaeda Operations in Iran and Syria
Chairman King, Ranking Member Higgins and members of the Committee, thank you for inviting me here today to discuss the threat posed by al Qaeda’s operations inside Iran and Syria. These ar...
Congressional Testimonies
Canadian Terror Plot Linked to al Qaeda in Iran
Canadian police officials have linked the plotting of two Muslim men to destroy a Toronto passenger train to al Qaeda's network inside Iran. The two suspects, neither of whom are Canadian ci...
Op-eds
Details Emerge on Suspects in Canadian Terror Plot
By David Barnett On April 22, Canadian officials said the plotting of Chiheb Esseghaier and...
Op-eds
Connecting the Dots: Hezbollah, Iran’s Web of Plots
As the European Union grapples with a ban of the Lebanese Shi’ite organization Hezbollah within its territory, reports emerged last week of foiled Iranian and Hezbollah terror and criminal...
Op-eds
Canada Plot Revives Concerns about Ties Between Iran and al-Qaeda
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) announced on Monday that it disrupted a plot to derail a VIA passenger tra...
Policy Briefs
The BDS Movement Against Israel has Accomplished Less Than Nothing
The student union at York University in Toronto has voted...
Op-eds
Ahmadi Muslims, Killed in Pakistan but Welcomed Here, Perfectly Symbolize Our Canadian Values
Last week, when Canadians learned that the federal government was set to announce the creation of a new “Office of Religious Freedom,” CBC reported the news with...
Op-eds
Hezbollah’s Terrorism a Threat to Upstate NY
Are residents in Rochester and Buffalo vulnerable to terror attacks from the Iran-backed Hezbollah organization? Upstate New York Congressman Brian Higgins, D-Buffalo, co-sponsored a bill with hi...
Op-eds
Joe Lieberman’s Legacy: The Battle Against Hezbollah
European officials can and must do more to root out the terrorist group.