Nixing the Iran Deal Would Be Better Than a Fake Fix
President Donald Trump issued this month his final ultimatum to Congress regarding the Obama-era Iran nuclear agreement: You fix it, or I’ll nix it. But in laying out his criteria...
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Nixing the Iran Deal Would Be Better Than a Fake Fix
President Donald Trump issued this month his final ultimatum to Congress regarding the Obama-era Iran nuclear agreement: You fix it, or I’ll nix it. But in laying out his criteria...
Op-eds
House Passes Sanctions Targeting Iran’s Ballistic Missile Program
Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation targeting the Islamic Republic of Iran’s ballistic missile program and its enablers. The bill –...
Policy Briefs
American Policy in Lebanon Isn’t Policy. It’s Poetry.
The commander of Lebanon’s Armed Forces (LAF), General Joseph Aoun, was in Washington on an official ...
Op-eds
Congress Moves to Reassert Itself in Iran Policy Oversight
This week, Congress moved to sanction Iran, North Korea, and Russia in an attempt to reestablish the utility of financial restraints as a means of challenging the malign behavior of hostile regim...
Policy Briefs
North Korea Takes another American Hostage
North Korea detained an American academic on Saturday as he was preparing to leave the country, joining two other Americans already serving harsh sentences there. His capture is part of a pattern...
Policy Briefs
Congress Introduces Bill to Combat BDS Worldwide
Congress introduced the Protecting Israel Against Economi...
Policy Briefs
House of Representatives Passes Bill Prohibiting Future Cash Payments to Iran
The House of Representatives voted in favor of a bill Thursday evening that would prohibit future cash payments to Iran. The Prohibiting Future Ransom Payments to Iran Act passed by a vo...
Op-eds
Don’t Give Iran Cash
Iran is once again the center of a heated debate between the Barack Obama administration and Republicans in Congress, this time over whether the United States’ $1.7...
Op-eds
What’s Next for Saudi Terrorism Bill?
Congress approved the...
Policy Briefs
Clifford D. May Appointed to the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on August 2, 2016 appointed Clifford D. May to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). “USCIRF...
Press Releases
Dem VP Nominee, Bipartisan Group of Senators Urge More Funding for Israel’s Missile Defense
A bipartisan group of senators has signed a public letter urging the Senate Armed Services Committee to include an additional $320 million for Israeli missile defense systems in the 2017 National...
Op-eds
Should Canada reopen its embassy in Iran?
One year ago this month, Iran and the P5+1 (China, France, Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States) reached a Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), an agreement on the si...
Op-eds
Confronting Genocide In Our Time
In my last column, I wrote about my gra...
Op-eds
How the Islamic State’s Propaganda Feeds Into Its Global Expansion Efforts
Co-written by Bridget Moreng and Nathaniel Barr Even before the dramatic blitzkrieg...
Op-eds
The Iranians “Arrest” Our Sailors, “13 Hours” Gives You Dots To Connect
Last night, we went to see a preview of the new documentary movie about Benghazi, “13 hours.” The audience was one of those Washington groups that contained real expertise, including...
Op-eds
A Side Agreement Could Void the Iran Deal
Co-authored by Mike Pompeo The Iran Nuclear Ag...
Op-eds
Heading Toward An EMP Catastrophe
For over a decade now, since the Congressional EMP Commission delivered its first report to Congress eleven years ago in July of 2004, various Senate and House committees have heard from numerous scie...
Congressional Testimonies
In Defence of the Senate
The Senate has faced vociferous attack in recent weeks. Accusations abound that an appointed Senate has no right to dissent from Conservative MP Michael Chong’s Reform Act, which was approv...
Op-eds
New Hezbollah Legislation In A New Sanctions Environment
The House of Representatives last week passed H.R. 2297, the “Hezbollah International Financing Prevention Act of 2015,” tightening sanctions on the Iranian-sponsored terrorist g...