Iran’s major strides in its march towards a nuclear weapon hang ominously over the meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors in Vienna on March 3-7. The nuclear monitoring...
At the end of 2020, the Islamic Republic of Iran was down to just $4 billion in accessible foreign exchange reserves. Its terrorist mastermind, Qassem Solemani, and the godfather of its nuclear weapons...
The French police recently charged a French-Algerian dual citizen and his partner for allegedly conspiring to assassinate Israelis and Jews in Paris, Munich, and Berlin — all at the behest...
The UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), will soon issue new reporting on Iran’s nuclear program from a summer of inspections at Tehran’s nuclear sites. The new data...
Carlos the Jackal was an early adopter
Member states of the 35-nation Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) voted to censure Iran’s nonproliferation violations during a quarterly meeting...
Washington failed to introduce a resolution admonishing Iran’s nonproliferation violations at a meeting of the nuclear watchdog for the United Nations that began on March 4. The...
The UN’s nuclear watchdog reported on February 26 that Iran remains on an alarming trajectory toward nuclear weapons. In quarterly reports viewed by FDD, the International Atomic...
Tehran’s hostility is clear, so why does the White House keep ignoring it?
Latest Developments Washington and its European allies failed to censure Iran at a critical meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog, in Vienna...
Showtime miniseries is thrilling but its portrayal of Hezbollah’s American-killing Imad Mughniyeh is wide off the historical mark
Few Americans have probably heard of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the UN’s nuclear watchdog. Last week, the IAEA’s board of governors convened in Vienna to hear from its director...
Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo said on April 27 that his government is examining a request by Tehran to release convicted terrorist mastermind and jailed Iranian diplomat...
Whatever its Gulf policy, the Biden administration’s approach should be coherent, but that has simply not been the case
Fate is sometimes kind to America. Such merciful intervention happened last summer when Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, rejected the Biden administration’s effort to revive former President Barack...
The left’s having second – and third – thoughts on Putin’s war
Iran’s security forces have killed at least 154 protesters since nation-wide demonstrations began in mid-September. On Monday, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, expressed full support for the security forces and blamed the United States and Israel for the unrest: “I say frankly that these incidents were designed by America, the fake Zionist regime, those who are on their payroll and some traitorous Iranians abroad who helped them.” President Joe Biden also issued a statement on Monday, warning, “the United States will be imposing further costs on the perpetrators of violence against peaceful protesters.” However, his administration remains publicly committed to the potential lifting of sanctions on those perpetrators via a new nuclear agreement — a policy contradiction the White House must address.
If the hijab falls, so does the theocracy, and aligning the U.S. behind the rebels gives them a chance.
Last month, the Department of Justice unsealed a case against an Iranian agent charged with plotting the assassination of former U.S. national security adviser John Bolton. In the alleged murder-for-hire...
Two years of U.S.-mediated negotiations on demarcating a maritime border between Israel and Lebanon appear to be reaching a conclusion, with senior envoys meeting on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly in New York this week. In 2020, the Hezbollah-dominated Lebanese government claimed rights to Karish, an Israeli gas field located in the Mediterranean Sea. This insistence constituted a negotiating tactic aimed at compelling Jerusalem to make territorial concessions on the entirety of the disputed maritime area, including Qana, a prospective gas field that lies within both Lebanese and Israeli waters.