WikiLeaks

May 7, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

New U.S. Ambassador to Germany calls on companies to end Iran trade

Richard Grenell, the newly confirmed US ambassador to Germany, said in an exclusive interview with Fox News on Thursday that German companies should stop trade with the Islamic Republic of Iran b...

February 6, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal

Germany Sold Technology to Iran for Use in Syrian Chemical Attacks

Germany’s Federal Office for Economic Affairs and Export Control approved a license for a company to sell military applicable technology to Iranian companies that subsequently was used in S...

January 29, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal

Did Iran’s Supreme Leader Help Acquit a Koran Reader who Raped Boys?

A member of Iran's quasi-parliamentary body, the Majlis, wrote on Twitter on Friday that individuals connected to Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei improperly intervened to compel a co...

April 20, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Syria’s chemical program: Rubio ‘gravely concerned’ about Iran & Russia complicity

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio told Fox News he’s “gravely concerned” about Iran’s role in helping Syria develop its chemical warfare program that ended up killing dozens of peo...

April 17, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

How Iran Enables Syria’s Chemical Warfare Against Civilians

The 59 Tomahawk missiles the US fired at the Shayrat Air Base served to punish dictator Bashar Assad for his use of chemical weapons against civilians. The strikes on April 6 also helped...

January 17, 2017 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

Terrorists, Insurgents, Something Else? Clarifying and Classifying the “Generational Challenge”

Co-written by Jacob Zenn. The Trump administration’s ...

January 10, 2017 | Boris Zilberman |

Fox 5

FDD's Deputy Director of Congressional Relations discusses Russia and the Wikileaks DNC emails.  ...

December 23, 2016 | Emanuele Ottolenghi, John Hannah

To Combat Illegal Immigration, Trump Should Target Latin America’s Hezbollah-Narco Nexus

President-elect Donald Trump staked much of his successful campaign on stopping illegal immigration. Yet the flow of migrants is symptomatic of a much larger danger to U....

August 31, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German gov’t: No normalized relations with Iran regime until it recognizes Israel

Germany's normalization of relations with Iran are tied to Tehran’s recognition of Israel, according to a letter released on Tuesday. The letter, written in the name of German...

August 12, 2016 | Pasi Eronen

Russia and the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election

Research Memo

August 4, 2016 | Jonathan Schanzer |

Bogus foreign-policy debates: How we’re helping our enemies fool us

World news has become complicated lately. Or has it? Consider these headlines: Abu Mohammed al-Julani, the leader of the Syrian al Qaeda affiliate group known as Jabhat al-Nusra...

August 4, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Iran executes gay teenager in violation of international law

Iran's regime executed a gay adolescent in July - the first confirmed execution of someone convicted as a juvenile in the Islamic Republic in 2016 - Amnesty International reported this week....

July 26, 2016 | Michael Ledeen |

Who’s Hillary’s Hacker And Why?

The Twitter crowd has devoted a lot of bandwith to the theory that the Wikileaks dump on the DNC is a Russian operation.  They may well be right, although I wouldn’t take Joshua Micah...

April 18, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Analysis: Tear down Iran’s anti-democracy wall

Is there anything to say about bringing about a democratic political and social order in Iran? A lively panel titled “Anti-democratic Regimes: Confrontation or Coexistence?” at the Fo...

January 19, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal

North African Men Suspected of Stoning Transgender Women in German City

Three young men from North Africa were arrested on Saturday in the western German city of Dortmund for stoning two transgender women. According to a report on Friday on television statio...

January 18, 2016 | Thomas Joscelyn

The Terrorists Freed by Obama

The Obama administration in recent days has proclaimed a “milestone” in its efforts to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, after achieving its long-held goal of redu...

January 14, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal

How to Fight Homophobia in the Middle East

January began with more horrific news for LGBTs in the Middle East. The Islamic State executed a 15-year-old Syrian boy suspected of being gay by tossing him off a rooftop in the eastern Syrian c...

December 14, 2015 |

Freed Prisoner’s Plight Underscores Egypt’s Security Failings

Egypt and Israel completed a prisoner swap on Thursday that included the release of an Israeli Be...

October 5, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Europe Has Billions of Reasons to Let Iran Cheat

Europe’s rapidly expanding economic relationship with the Islamic Republic of Iran prompted Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) to call for a unified trans-Atlantic approach to enforcement of the...

August 24, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Analysis: Why Europe is Not Likely to Enforce Iran Deal

With the reopening of the UK’s embassy in Tehran on Sunday, a new wrench has been tossed into the nuclear deal approval process: Britain’s likely reluctance to enforce violations.&nbs...