August 29, 2017

Crackdown on Iranian political prisoners reveals Rouhani's true colors

While Tehran's diplomacy apparatus has been trying to portray a moderate image of the Iranian regime, the realities inside the country reveal a completely different truth. On July 30, a few days before the inauguration of Hassan Rouhani's ...

June 21, 2017

What makes the new Iran sanctions significant?

Last week, the Senate passed a bill that outlines a new round of sanctions against the Iranian regime for its ballistic missile development, arms transfers, support for terrorism, and human rights violations.  With approval from the Ho...

May 9, 2017

Obama-Era Windfall Enabling Iranian Military Buildup

Iran is engaging in an unprecedented buildup of military assets thanks to the billions obtained through the Obama-brokered and highly flawed nuclear deal. Iran’s military leaders are boasting of carrying out a transformation of their fight...

April 22, 2017

Opposition group discloses Iran’s nuclear bomb-making efforts

There are many reasons to believe that the Iranian regime would seek nuclear weapons despite the weak and porous agreement it signed with world powers in 2015.  The latest manifestation of this reality is the revelations made...

March 31, 2017

Iran's Foiled Bahrain Plot

Members of an Iran-backed terrorist cell were arrested by Bahrain authorities over the weekend, all being accused of planning assassinations aimed at targeting senior government officials. There are reasons to believe this cell is responsible for a F...

March 19, 2017

How to Get It Right on Iran

Perhaps the most challenging foreign policy dilemma facing the Trump administration is none other than Iran. Issues include Iran’s nuclear program, a regional policy focused on increasing its hegemonic reach, a network backing a conglomera...

March 12, 2017

How to get it Right on Iran

Perhaps the most challenging foreign policy dilemma facing the Trump administration is none other than Iran. Issues include Iran’s nuclear program, a regional policy focused on increasing its hegemonic reach, a network backing a conglomera...

March 9, 2017

Iran under increasing isolation

With each passing day, Iran is experiencing further international and regional isolation, with a growing number of countries voicing concerns about Tehran's policies.  Barack Obama leaving office signaled the beginning of the end of a "...

March 4, 2017

Iran's Military Drills:The Same Old Saber-Rattling

While mainstream media may provide wide coverage of Iran’s recent military drills on the ground and at sea, including a variety of missile test launches, they represent nothing new. A new administration taking the helm in Washington has engende...

February 9, 2017

How Deep Was the Obama-Iran Relationship?

The Obama administration’s effort to engage Iran remained a matter of suspicion until the 44th American president left the White House. Concerns began mounting especially after Obama turned his back on the 2009 uprising  in parallel to the...

January 10, 2017

Iran after Rafsanjani

Dying at the age of 82 from a heart attack on Sunday, former Iranian president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani had a long record of guiding the regime’s lethal measures domestically and abroad, including suicide bombings and eliminating exiled dis...

December 29, 2016

Boeing/Airbus Deals Will Boost Iran’s Support of Terrorism

Mainstream media is rife with news about Iran sealing multibillion-dollar deals with Airbus and Boeing to purchase more than 100 passenger planes. Unfortunately, Iran is no ordinary buyer. It's a mistake for anyone to rejoice over such a deal ...

December 10, 2016

Propaganda Won’t Make the Iran Deal Any Better

Following the election of Republican candidate Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States, Iran, its lobbies and its economic partners are weighing in and trying to hedge the windfall earnings of an eight-year-long rapprochement cam...

November 9, 2016

It’s time to rethink the US policy toward Iran

In a news conference held after signing the nuclear deal with Iran, President Obama, who had reached the pinnacle of his foreign policy toward Iran, expressed hope “to have conversations with Iran that incentivize them to behave differently in ...

October 28, 2016

How the Iran deal is empowering America's enemies

In an attempt to prevent the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) from falling apart, U.S. President Barack Obama continues to pursue the failed policy of appeasement and giving concessions to the Iranian regime.  The latest round includes...

May 18, 2016

Iran Engulfed in Economic Crisis, Elite Fear General Uprising

Reports from inside Iran indicate a mounting economic crisis, despite a windfall of billions pouring into Iran following the nuclear deal sealed with the P5+1 following negotiations in which the international community bent over backwards in the...

April 5, 2016

Did 'Moderates' win Iran’s 'Elections'?

Iran held “elections” late last month. Headlines across the Western media loudly declared a victory for “moderate” electoral forces, with the implicit strapline that there is no longer an ethical case against doing business in...

February 10, 2016

The Upcoming Iranian Elections

The upcoming elections in Iran bear no good news for the Iranian people, who have always sought political and social freedoms, or for claims of a "new relationship" between Iran and the West falsely ascribed to the recent nuclear ...

July 22, 2015

Iran becomes more aggressive after Obama's 'historic' nuclear deal

The massive giveaways to Iran in the nuclear deal it struck with the P5+1 on July 14 were premised on the false assumption that concessions would render Tehran more docile.  U.S. President Barack Obama has spoken on several accounts on how econo...

July 1, 2015

Is Iran luring Obama into a trap in Iraq?

Bloomberg View’s Eli Lake and Josh Rogin recently reported that U.S. troops are sharing a base with Iran-backed Shiite militias in Iraq, where Tehran’s notorious proxies are spying on U.S. operations and personnel at their leisure to prep...

June 19, 2015

Obama is letting Iran get away with nuclear bombs

The end of June deadline for a comprehensive deal between world powers and Iran over its contested nuclear program is fast closing, and the prospects of achieving a deal that will prevent an Islamic fundamentalist state from obtaining nuclear bombs a...

May 28, 2015

The Iran Talks set the Middle East Ablaze

In order to keep the Iranian regime at the nuclear negotiation table, the Obama administration and the P5+1 have allowed Tehran to tap into billions of dollars’ worth of sanctions relief money while retaining a considerable portion of its nucle...

December 5, 2014

Iran's Future will be Shaped by Women

Recent events have once again drawn attention to women’s rights abuses in Iran, a phenomenon that has been institutionalized in the very foundations and constitution of the clerical regime ruling the country since 1979. The recent spike in...

November 3, 2014

ISIS and Iran's Regional Ambitions

Until a few months ago, the Iranian regime had fed off the chaos in the region to further its dream of forming a “Shiite Crescent” extending through Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon. The West’s nonintervention and retreat policy ...

October 12, 2014

Appeasing Iran will Embolden ISIS

You can’t hope to successfully fight Islamic State extremists in Iraq and Syria while at the same time appeasing the extremists next door in Iran. But unfortunately this continues to be the case with respect to the West’s approach toward ...

September 17, 2014

Iran is not an Ally

Disturbing images and accounts of the Islamic State’s brutal onslaught in Iraq have become the source of outrage and concern worldwide, and states are frantically searching for a strategy to resolve the crisis caused by the rise of the extremis...