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February 27, 2025 | Andrea Stricker |

Iran’s Nuclear Weapons Potential Leaps Ahead of IAEA Meeting

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...

February 19, 2025 | Andrea Stricker |

Detecting and Halting an Iranian Weaponization Effort

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December 9, 2024 | Richard Goldberg |

How to Bring Back Maximum Pressure on Iran

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...

September 17, 2024 | Janatan Sayeh |

Iran’s Assassination Plots Against Jews Persist Despite the West’s Leniency on Regime

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...

August 21, 2024 | Andrea Stricker |

Iran Is Shockingly Close to Nuclear Breakout Potential; The World Must Act

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...

July 3, 2024 | Clifford D. May |

The jihadi-leftist convergence

Carlos the Jackal was an early adopter

June 5, 2024 | |

IAEA Members Vote to Censure Iran Over Nuclear Violations

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...

March 7, 2024 | |

U.S. Fails to Censure Iran’s Nuclear Program at IAEA 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...

February 28, 2024 | |

Iran on Alarming Trajectory Toward Nuclear Weapons, IAEA Warns

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...

December 6, 2023 | Andrea Stricker, Anthony Ruggiero

Radioactive: Executives from Russia’s Rosatom Corporation May Qualify for U.S. Sanctions

November 30, 2023 | Richard Goldberg |

Biden’s Imaginary Iran

Tehran’s hostility is clear, so why does the White House keep ignoring it?

November 27, 2023 | |

West Fails to Censure Iran at Key Nuclear Meeting Despite Tehran’s Ejection of Inspectors

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...

September 13, 2023 | Richard Goldberg

A Dangerous Strategy: Examining the Biden Administration’s Failures on Iran

August 26, 2023 | Hussain Abdul-Hussain |

‘Ghosts of Beirut’ gets Hezbollah’s most wanted all wrong

Showtime miniseries is thrilling but its portrayal of Hezbollah’s American-killing Imad Mughniyeh is wide off the historical mark

June 15, 2023 | Richard Goldberg |

Don’t Stop Digging Into Iran’s Nuclear Secrets

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...

April 28, 2023 | |

Belgium Weighs Iran’s Hostage Swap Request, Convicted Diplomat for Aid Worker

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...

March 6, 2023 | Hussain Abdul-Hussain |

Biden’s diplomacy without deadlines erodes US-Gulf alliance

Whatever its Gulf policy, the Biden administration’s approach should be coherent, but that has simply not been the case

December 16, 2022 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

The Iranian theocracy’s downfall is a goal worth working toward

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...

December 1, 2022 | David Adesnik, John Hardie

Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: December

November 2, 2022 | Clifford D. May |

Dead letter

The left’s having second – and third – thoughts on Putin’s war