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November 1, 2020
Bad News: Iran’s Centrifuge Assembly Plant is Going Underground
The director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael M. Grossi, confirmed in an interview this week that Iran has begun replacing a key centrifuge assembly plant that a massive...
October 30, 2020
Time to penalize Hamas and Hezbollah for using human shields
October 30, 2020
U.S. Issues Timely Alert on Another North Korean Hacking Group
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the United States Cyber Command Cyber National Mission Force (CNMF) issued a joint alert on Tuesday...
October 30, 2020
U.S. Should Sanction Key Iranian Automobile Companies
Iranian Air Force commander Brigadier General Aziz Nasirzadeh announced earlier this month that the Air Force and the Iranian automobile manufacturer SAIPA would co-produce unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV)...
October 30, 2020
The Biden Agenda: Eyes on Iran
What will happen in the Middle East if Joe Biden wins the presidency? Europeans are hopeful that a Democratic triumph will mean a U.S. return to the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, the Joint Comprehensive...
October 29, 2020
What will the elections do to the US-Iran conflict?
In 2018, after US President Donald Trump withdrew from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, calling it “the worse deal ever,” Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, vowed never to renegotiate another...
October 29, 2020
The Saudi Evolution
Fouad Ajami had an odd fondness for Saudi Arabia. He was an Americanized, secular Shiite with European sensibilities who, truth be told, had pretty much burned out on the ugliness of the modern Arab world. He...
October 29, 2020
Iran puts air defense assets on display
The Islamic Republic has concluded a massive air defense drill showcasing select surface-to-air missiles (SAMs), launchers, radars, and command-and-control equipment. While analysts and policymakers have...
October 28, 2020
The Emerging Sino-Russian Alliance
During a video conference last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin said something significant. When asked if Russia would enter into a formal military alliance with China, Putin responded: “We don’t...
October 28, 2020
Testing NATO
A NATO ally should not acquire a major weapon system from the leading threat to the alliance Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has consistently brushed aside American concerns regarding the S-400,...
October 28, 2020
Celebrating a crucial milestone for the people of Sudan and for the United States
President Donald Trump announced by tweet last week yet another Middle East peace achievement. Building off of the historic deals between Israel and the Persian Gulf nations of Bahrain the United Arab Emirates,...
October 28, 2020
America Should Not Sell F-35 Fighter Planes to the Qatari Regime
Israeli energy minister Yuval Steinitz, speaking to the Ynet website on Sunday, expressed concern that despite Jerusalem’s objections, Qatar will eventually acquire state-of-the-art Lockheed Martin...
October 28, 2020
See No Evil: Europe Supports Genocidal Regime in Iran
Swiss and German economic deals might be aiding Iran’s illicit nuclear weapons program…. The Swiss firm Ceresola TLS reached an agreement [in 2010] with the Rahab Engineering Establishment...
October 26, 2020
Iran’s Access to Hard Currency Reserves Drops Precipitously
In its latest assessment of Iran’s economy, released last week, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) estimated that Iran’s “readily available and controlled” gross official reserves will fall to...
October 24, 2020
India-China: The shove felt around the world
While New Delhi is preparing for the arrival of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Secretary of Defense Mark Esper for their 2+2 meetings in India, we should take a moment to remember Colonel Santosh Babu,...
October 23, 2020
Yes, Virginia, the Trump Administration Does Have a China Strategy
On October 26, a week before the U.S. presidential election, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Secretary of Defense Mark Esper will begin two days of high-level talks in Delhi. In person. That shouldn’t...
October 22, 2020
How Big Tech factors into the US-China geopolitical competition
Excerpt On Oct. 6, the House Judiciary Committee issued a report calling for new antitrust regulations to rein in Big Tech. This report comes after a 15-month antitrust probe into technology firms Google,...
October 22, 2020
One Term of ‘Maximum Pressure’ on North Korea
As President Donald Trump prepared to take office nearly four years ago, his predecessor had a warning. President Barack Obama advised Trump that North Korea’s ballistic missile and nuclear weapons programs...
October 22, 2020
Hassan Rouhani wants the US to surrender, but the pressure is on Tehran
“Surrender.” That’s the only option Iranian President Hassan Rouhani offered America during his (now forgotten) virtual address to the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA)...
October 22, 2020
Amid Political Tensions, NATO Remains a Vital Alliance
Turkey’s reported live-fire test of its Russian S-400 surface-to-air missile system last week further aggravated political fault lines within NATO. Yet despite this provocation and other wide-ranging...
October 22, 2020
The Trump Administration’s High-Stakes Gambit to Curtail Rocket Attacks in Iraq
In an unexpected announcement on October 10, a group of Iran-backed Shiite militia groups declared their intention to suspend forthwith their attacks on U.S. interests in Iraq, while conditioning the ceasefire’s...
October 21, 2020
Is Esper’s New Plan For The Navy Enough For The Indo-Pacific?
Recent wargames suggest the U.S. Navy would have a hard time fighting China, but this might be nothing compared to infighting Secretary of Defense Mark Esper and his successors will have to manage to build...
October 21, 2020
Russia and China Obstruct UN Reporting on North Korea
At its annual military parade this month, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) unveiled what may be the world’s largest road-mobile intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) as well as a...
October 21, 2020
The Iran Factor in Talks Between U.S., Azerbaijan, and Armenia
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will host the foreign ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia for apparently separate meetings in Washington this Friday to discuss the ongoing fighting between their two countries....
October 21, 2020
China’s provocations propel decision to include Australia in upcoming Malabar exercise
India announced on Monday that the Australian Navy would join the November 2020 Malabar exercise — an annual, high-end joint exercise conducted predominantly at sea that has included only American,...
October 21, 2020
G7 powers must confront the Chinese threat together
China’s illegitimate detention of Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig has put the limitations of Canada’s quiet diplomacy into stark focus. Nearly 700 days have passed since the two men, commonly...
October 21, 2020
Beijing’s new world order
For countless centuries, tribes have fought and conquered other tribes, nations have fought and conquered other nations, empires have fought and conquered other empires. After World War II, a different...
October 20, 2020
UN Secretary-General Condemns Iran for Human Rights Abuses
The “overall situation of human rights” in Iran “remains of serious concern, owing to persistent and gross human rights violations,” the UN secretary-general, António Guterres, stated in a report...
October 19, 2020
New EU Sanctions on Russia a Good First Step, But Further Action Needed
The European Union unveiled targeted sanctions on Thursday in response to the August 20 use of a chemical weapon to poison leading Russian dissident Alexei Navalny. The sanctions represent a positive first...
October 19, 2020
The IRGC runs for high office in Tehran
It’s not every day that a former hostage-taker and a man essential to the founding of a designated terrorist organization throws his hat into the ring for president, not even in the Islamic Republic of...
October 16, 2020
With S-400 Escalation, Turkey Tests NATO
Turkey reportedly conducted an expected live-fire test on Friday of its Russian S-400 surface-to-air missile system. The test represents a troubling milestone in the steady deterioration of Ankara’s relationship...
October 16, 2020
Prime Minister Suga Must Reassess His Priorities for the Korean Peninsula
New Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga refused to attend an annual trilateral summit with the leaders of China and South Korea until Seoul meets Tokyo’s demands regarding a disputed court case over...
October 15, 2020
Washington Should Avoid a Self-Inflicted Wound in the Sinai
Following Israel’s establishment of diplomatic relations with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain on Sept. 15, there is much to celebrate in the positive trajectory in Israel’s relations with several...
October 15, 2020
The Real Danger in Trump Touting a Baseless Bin Laden Conspiracy Theory
I had intended to write this week about North Korea’s provocative missile display, or China’s role in facilitating the opioid crisis inside the U.S., but both of those topics will have to wait. Earlier...
October 15, 2020
UN Elects Worst Violators to Human Rights Council
The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on Tuesday overwhelmingly elected China, Cuba, Gabon, Pakistan, Russia, and Uzbekistan as members of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC). The election underscores...
October 15, 2020
Time to Act on Human Shields
October 14, 2020
Weaponizing technology
“The fax will set you free!” Years ago, that was such a hopeful rallying cry. I was among those convinced that exciting, new technologies would defeat tyrants and censors. When the facsimile machine,...
October 14, 2020
North Korea’s Parade Confirms Kim Jong Un Holds True to His Revolutionary Political Warfare Strategy
On October 10, North Korea celebrated the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Workers Party of Korea with a well-choreographed military parade. After months of speculation among the Korea watcher community,...
October 14, 2020
Corruption, Not Sanctions, Is Causing Medicine Shortages in Iran
Hassan Rouhani, the Iranian president, says that new sanctions on 18 Iranian banks are part of a deliberate U.S. effort to cause shortages of food and medicine. It’s a claim that the Tehran regime has...
October 14, 2020
Erdogan Meddles in Northern Cyprus Elections
Northern Cyprus will head to a runoff presidential vote next Sunday in a race that pits the proreunification incumbent of the breakaway region against a nationalist hawk backed by Turkey’s Islamist President...
October 14, 2020
Made in Germany, Co-opted by China
October 13, 2020
Beijing’s Bid for a Maritime ‘God View’: Military-Civil Fusion Power Projection and Threats to Supply Chain Integrity
On September 30, the White House issued its second critical mineral executive order since 2017. The Executive Order on Addressing the Threat to the Domestic Supply Chain from Reliance on Critical Minerals...
October 7, 2020
Will Iran’s past become prologue for Nagorno-Karabakh?
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is calling for “stability” and an “end” to the current fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan — but should the conflict between its northern neighbors escalate,...
October 7, 2020
The Failures of Operation Enduring Freedom
Nineteen years ago today, the U.S. military went to war in Afghanistan. It was not a war of America’s choosing. Prior to the 9/11 hijackings, Osama bin Laden and his lieutenants planned a series of attacks...
October 7, 2020
Turkish Public Lender Fails Again to Scuttle Iran Sanctions Evasion Case
A Manhattan federal judge on October 1 refused to dismiss an indictment accusing Halkbank, a public lender majority-owned by the Turkish government, of helping Iran evade U.S. sanctions. In the event of...
October 7, 2020
McMaster and commander in chief
There was a simplicity to the Cold War. Free peoples, and those who aspired to that status, were threatened by communism, a totalitarian ideology aggressively propagated by the Soviet Union, an expansionist...
October 6, 2020
Olympics refuses to discuss Iranian regime’s murder of wrestler
The agenda for Wednesday’s International Olympic Committee (IOC) executive board meeting omits the Iranian regime’s execution of the champion wrestler Navid Afkari, prompting calls for the president...
October 6, 2020
Will Trudeau have the stomach to take on Iran?
Earlier this week, the United States government announced the re-imposition of all United Nations sanctions on the Islamic Republic of Iran. This “snapback” of international restrictions on one of the...
October 5, 2020
Iran at Risk From Spillover of Armenia-Azerbaijan Clashes
Intense fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan is taking place in proximity to Iran’s northwestern border, which it shares with both countries. While Turkey has sided firmly with Azerbaijan and Russia...
October 5, 2020
Worth Preserving: US Military Posture in Germany
NATO represents one of America’s greatest grand strategic assets, and the U.S.-German bilateral relationship serves as a key pillar for the alliance and for stability and security on the European continent....
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