September 26, 2017

How to Stop Iran in Its Post-Deal Destabilization Game

Every three months, there's a deadline for a U.S. “recertification” of the Iran nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). As that deadline approaches, discussions in the Beltway heat up as to what is the r...

August 12, 2017

Will Rouhani uphold human rights in Iran?

No matter how hard some in the West and more accurately in Europe try to prove differently, the answer to that question is no. In Iran, Hassan Rouhani was inaugurated for his second term as president in a luxurious ceremony and in sharp contrast to m...

July 9, 2017

U.S. Should Turn Up the Heat on Iran

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called for “regime change” in Iran. He made the comments in a hearing on State Department budget for next year before the House Foreign Affairs Committee.  Secretary Tillerson’s testimony on Ira...

June 14, 2017

What happens in Iran after the ISIS attacks?

In many ways, the Iranian regime is different from other classic dictatorships.  But who would have thought that in mourning Tehran's terrorist attacks last week, a first for ISIS in Iran, which left 13 dead and some forty others injured, th...

May 30, 2017

Will Iran's Rouhani change course?

The final episode of Iran's sham presidential election played out, and Hassan Rouhani finished first.  What really happed, however, was not just his victory over a notorious "hardliner" opponent, Ebrahim Raisi, posing as champion o...

May 12, 2017

How Does Election-Rigging Work in Iran?

Around the time of Iran’s presidential elections, for as far back as the first round in 1980, vote-rigging has not been unusual. Ever since the regime’s founding father Ruhollah Khomeini took power, a pattern was set to “select...

April 22, 2017

Iran’s mullahs never stop thinking of making nukes

Iran's mullahs will stop at nothing to get their hands on nuclear weapons to spread terror.  Just look at how broad the evidence is. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in his letter to House speaker Paul Ryan on April 19 said that although ...

April 18, 2017

Trump Turns the Screws on Iran's Mullahs

The Trump administration sanctioned Iran’s prison system “for torturous interrogations, forced interrogations, and widespread mistreatment of inmates,” on April 15. It may seem a tiny step in the way of stopping Iranian regime...

April 15, 2017

Iran’s Stage-Managed Elections

Every four years, Iranian citizen witness a show called 'elections.' These have nothing in common with genuine democratic elections; they're facades. The upcoming May 19 elections are no exception. A closer look at the candidates prove...

April 9, 2017

U.S. airstrikes in Syria a smackdown for Iran's mullahs

The deadly chemical attack on innocent Syrian men, women and children in Idlib, which killed at least 100 and injured 400 was little more than Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad crossing the “red line” again. It wasn't his first chemical...

April 7, 2017

An effective first step toward containing Iran

The Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Paul Ryan, talked tough on Iran last March 28, stating that the regime is a danger to the U.S., in need of non-nuclear sanctions, and calling for Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps...

April 2, 2017

Stop Iran’s expansionism in the Middle East

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei authorized for the first time an offer of Iranian citizenship to Afghans willing to fight in Syria. Javan, one of many Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) dailies officially broke the news on March 17. Ma...

March 21, 2017

From Iran, the Mullahs' Malevolence to the US Grows

The Iranian regime has been and will be a source of instability in the region. Not a single day goes by without another indication of this insidious behavior. Aside from somewhat more evident and aggressive moves, such as Iran's chasing U.S. and ...

March 10, 2017

Time to Call Iran's Revolutionary Guards What They Are: Terrorists

Ever since signs emerged that Trump administration is considering a long-overdue classification of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization, the ruling mullahs have gone to work. They put into place a well-known...

February 27, 2017

With Obama's Iran deal, Iran's goons get busy again

They say old habits die hard.  In the case of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), it is certainly true. There are two seemingly unrelated events out of Iran in the past few days.  One is the mullahs' renewal of Ayato...