'Fox' hunt: The search for Hezbollah's Imad Mughniyeh
The truth is now out: Almost exactly seven years ago, on Feb. 12, 2008, American spies on the ground in Damascus, Syria conducted reconnaissance of a Hezbollah master terrorist and informed their...
View ArticleDon't let the Revolutionary Guards join Iran's gold rush
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is the regime's top exporter of terrorism and chief enforcer of repression at home. Regrettably, it is the IRGC that will benefit most from the Joint...
View ArticleTime to designate Iran's Revolutionary Guards as terror group
Last week, news emerged that Russia's military deployment to Syria was offering cover to the Syrian regime and its allies in a campaign to recapture lost territories from rebel groups. But even that...
View ArticleWhy isn't the Obama administration going after Iran's Mahan Air?
In theory, Iran's Mahan Air is a private commercial airliner that operates dozens of daily passenger flights to domestic and international destinations. In practice, Mahan might as well rename itself...
View ArticleCongress should keep foreign investors from working with Iran's...
Last weekend, the Obama administration and the European Union lifted sanctions against Tehran, less than a year after Iran and six world powers reached a nuclear deal. In preparation, the Islamic...
View ArticleThe flawed logic of proportionality
President Trump recently halted a retaliatory strike against Iran on the basis that it would have claimed many Iranian lives and was “not proportionate to shooting down an unmanned drone.” The decision...
View ArticleThe John Boltons of Iran are on the rise
As the desert sun rose through clouds of billowing black smoke, the damage to the world’s largest oil processing facility came into sharp relief. An unprecedented strike against the beating heart of...
View ArticleSoleimani is dead, but the enemy still stands
The killing of General Qassem Soleimani by U.S. forces has removed a huge threat to U.S. national security. But the source of the problem, the Islamic Republic in Iran, still stands. And while the...
View ArticleOn the precipice: Unknown unknowns in the Middle East, again
President Donald Trump delivered justice to Qassem Soleimani, the Iranian Major General in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and commander of its Quds Force, on the tarmac of the Baghdad...
View ArticleAverting war in 2020
In the first week of the new decade, we face another potential war in the Middle East. With last Friday’s early morning strike killing General Qassem Soleimani, the ruthlessly charismatic chief of...
View ArticleAmerican hypocrisy on display again in the Middle East
On the final day of 2019, Iraqi protesters breached the most formidable U.S. embassy in the Middle East, and several days later the United States assassinated leading Iranian Quds force commander...
View ArticleTrump's strike will not save Iran's hardliners
The Iranian people are not fools. They know better than most exactly what the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), and its Quds Force — led by the late Gen. Qassem Soleimani — are all about. They...
View ArticleIran's likely downing of airliner invokes an uncomfortable past
The likely Iranian downing of Ukrainian International Airlines flight PS752 is an opportunity for U.S. and Iran to start reengaging, at the technical level at least.Tuesday night Iranian forces loosed...
View ArticleNext phase in the US confrontation with Iran: Moving the battle to the cyber...
Two weeks ago, the name Qassem Soleimani was not widely known in the U.S.; today, many people know him as the Iranian general killed in a U.S. drone strike on Jan. 3. In part, that’s because Iran — in...
View ArticleSoleimani's death creates power vacuum within Iran
Qassem Soleimani, former head of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force, was feared at home and abroad. He held both symbolic and substantive authority. Iran’s supreme leader dubbed...
View ArticleIran pledges retaliation for all involved in Soleimani's death
The chief of Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard on Saturday threatened to take action against anyone involved in a top general’s January killing during a U.S. drone strike in Iraq.According to the...
View ArticleIran deserves a red card for its human rights abuses
The government of the Islamic Republic of Iran has become increasingly paranoid, and thus even more of a pariah. It is concerned about signs of seething popular anger over the dire economic conditions...
View ArticleIran claims it blocked US attempt to detain oil tanker
Iran's military on Wednesday claimed that it stopped an attempt by the U.S. Navy to detain a tanker carrying Iranian oil in the Sea of Oman, an accusation the U.S. military later called "totally...
View ArticleU.S. Navy seized missiles, petroleum products from Iranian military
The U.S. Navy seized 171 surface-to-air missiles, eight anti-tank missiles and 1.1 million barrels of petroleum products worth $261 million from two Iranian ships in the Arabian Sea in three separate...
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