Weapon of mass destruction

April 16, 2024 | Richard Goldberg |

The path that led to Iran’s attack on Israel was one of US appeasement

The Biden administration must begin taking the Islamic Republic’s threat to world peace seriously

April 3, 2024 | Clifford D. May |

Tehran’s weapons of mass distraction

They conceal Tehran’s development of weapons of mass destruction

October 9, 2023 | Richard Goldberg |

What the US and Israel need to do next in face of Iran terror

Americans watched in shock and disbelief this weekend as horrific videos spread across social media documenting the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. But as shock turns to anger, the White...

June 4, 2023 | |

Iran’s Nuclear Violations to Test Resolve of IAEA Board of Governors

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors will convene tomorrow for its June quarterly meeting following a report from IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi that Iran continues...

October 16, 2021 | Richard Goldberg, Orde Kittrie

US rejoining UN Human Rights Council; what it should do first

Excerpt The United States on Thursday won a seat on the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) beginning in January 2022, with the Biden administration vowing to prove it can reform the council from within....

May 3, 2021 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Iran sought nuclear weapons, technology for WMDs last year, reports find

Findings likely to animate broader discussion about whether US should return to Iran nuclear deal

April 9, 2021 | Richard Goldberg |

How Republicans Can Stop Biden from Lifting Iran Sanctions

Instead of diluting their principles, congressional Republicans should use every available procedural tool to force tough votes.

March 25, 2021 | Richard Goldberg, Anthony Ruggiero

Iran must come clean on its nuclear deception

President Joe Biden’s Iran policy centers on the notion of “compliance for compliance” — if Iran returns to compliance with the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the United States will...

August 12, 2020 | Clifford D. May |

The tyrants’ reach

Despots now threaten free speech even in free countries

June 30, 2020 | Richard Goldberg |

It Is Time For All Nations To Support Extension Of Iran Arms Embargo

In May 2018, when the world learned that Iran had concealed a secret nuclear weapons archive before, during and after negotiations over the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), supporters of the...

June 10, 2020 | Richard Goldberg |

Europeans Pushing to Boycott Israel Over Annexation Should Think Twice

Calls for economic sanctions against Israel risk a costly collision with U.S. anti-boycott laws, as companies such as Airbnb can attest.

March 31, 2020 | Mark Dubowitz, Richard Goldberg

The Coronavirus Is Absolutely No Excuse To Lift Sanctions on Iran

Exploiting Iran's coronavirus crisis to demand an end to sanctions is fundamentally dishonest—and panders to a brutal regime.

March 27, 2020 | Richard Goldberg |

If Europe Won’t Snapback, End the Waiver for Arak

“Iran must stop enrichment and never pursue plutonium reprocessing. This includes closing its heavy water reactor.” – Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, May 21, 2018 Iran has two pathways to nuclear...

December 15, 2017 | Reuel Marc Gerecht, Mark Dubowitz

Deceptive Deja Vu

In France, all right-thinking people know instinctively what the pensée unique is—the socially acceptable view on any subject that ensures a Parisian won’t get axed from the be...

November 2, 2017 | Behnam Ben Taleblu, Tyler Stapleton

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 –...

April 28, 2017 | Behnam Ben Taleblu |

Missing the Point on Iran’s Ballistic Missiles

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani told a defense exposition this month that his country would &ldq...

July 15, 2016 | Reuel Marc Gerecht

The Chilcot Report

The Chilcot report on the Iraq war ought to elicit two emotions: sympathy and pity for former British prime minister Tony Blair. As was evident by late 2002, when Europeans saw the fri...

October 20, 2014 | Michael Ledeen

The Iraqi WMDs and Other Disgraces

We are beginning to learn that the Bush administration declined to talk about the discovery of thousands of WMDs in Iraq. But that’s only the beginning of the story, since that policy was j...

September 6, 2013 | Jonathan Kay |

‘Responsibility to Protect’ is No Basis for Bombing Syria

In the Saturday edition of the National Post, eminent human rights advocate Irwin Cotler wrote that “if mass atrocities in Syria are not a case for R2P [the Responsibility to Protect doctri...

May 22, 2013 | Orde Kittrie FDD Policy Brief |

New Ideas for Cooperatively Preventing WMD Attacks from the Middle East

The danger that weapons of mass destruction (WMD) from the Middle East will be used against the United States or its allies has been heightened by several recent developments.  These develop...