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July 8, 2020
How China Tries to Intimidate Its Dissidents Living Overseas
Speaking at the Hudson Institute in Washington on Tuesday, FBI Director Christopher Wray argued that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) poses the “greatest long-term threat to our nation’s information...
July 8, 2020
New South Korean National Security Team Has Close Ties to Pyongyang
South Korean President Moon Jae-in put in place a new national security team last week that is composed of figures known for their close ties to North Korean officials. The composition of the team indicates...
July 8, 2020
Study war some more
The Cold War was an endless war until, to the surprise of most political scientists, intelligence analysts and astrologers, it abruptly ended. Was the Cold War necessary? After World War II, it seemed preferable...
July 8, 2020
Post-COVID, Let’s Leverage International Organizations to Slow Down China
In a sign that not all hope has been lost in combating China’s efforts to co-opt international organizations (IO), Beijing recently suffered a bruising defeat at the hands of the World Trade Organization...
July 7, 2020
Taliban again denies Al Qaeda is in Afghanistan
In an effort to keep up the facade of a ‘peace’ deal with the U.S. government, the Taliban has yet again denied that Al Qaeda has a presence in Afghanistan. This time, the group refuted a Department...
July 7, 2020
Hamas v. Fatah — warring factions uniting after 10+ years?
July 7, 2020
Public Enemy: Islamic Republic’s Coronavirus Disinformation
Mark Dubowitz and Saeed Ghasseminajad of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies have done an investigation of the Iranian regime’s disinformation campaign to minimize the real impact of the coronavirus...
July 6, 2020
Antisemitism commissioner slams German parliament for anti-Israel bias
The Bundestag passed an anti-Israel resolution that will weaken the Jewish state, the German state of Hesse’s commissioner for Jewish life and the fight against antisemitism told The Jerusalem Post by...
July 6, 2020
Is the Padlock on Your Browser Bar Giving You a False Sense of Security?
July 6, 2020
COVID-19 Is Amplifying the Plight of Turkish and Iranian Kurds
The Kurdish people, who number some 40 million across Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria, are diverse in language, culture, religion, and politics. They are, however, united by the experience of suffering from...
July 6, 2020
UPDATE: COVID-19 In Iraq
Iraq’s luck with the coronavirus appears to have run out. Though it weathered the pandemic’s first two months better than anticipated, in recent weeks the virus has spread at an alarming rate. As Iraq’s...
July 4, 2020
Watch China’s actions, don’t listen to its words
Words matter. They shape your thoughts and your thoughts shape your actions. The more complex the situation, the more important the need to use precise words. They are the solid stepping-stones that can...
July 2, 2020
Proliferant States Continue to Rely on China for Nuclear-Related Equipment
A German intelligence report released last month found that Iran and other countries continue their longstanding practice of illicitly importing dual-use goods – items with both civil and military applications...
July 1, 2020
We Still Have More Questions Than Answers on Russian Bounties
On June 26, the New York Times reported that American intelligence officials “have concluded that a Russian military intelligence unit secretly offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants for...
July 1, 2020
Chess great Kasparov slams NBA over ignoring China human rights violations
The prominent human rights activist and peerless chess grand master, Garry Kasparov, blasted the US National Basketball Association (NBA) on Tuesday for accommodating human rights violations carried out...
July 1, 2020
US International Religious Freedom Efforts Should Not Promote Islamic Extremism
The Trump Administration has elevated the promotion of international religious freedom to a major component of U.S. foreign policy. President Donald Trump issued an executive order devoting additional...
July 1, 2020
Meet the restrainers
If I use the term “restrainer” what does that call to mind? A device that keeps an infant safe in the back seat of an automobile? Something Nurse Ratchet used to subdue unruly patients? No, what I’m...
June 30, 2020
Declining Turkish-Iranian energy trade offers Washington an opportunity
Economic issues were high on the agenda for Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad-Javad Zarif, who traveled to Istanbul for two days earlier this June. Zarif’s visit to Turkey marks his second foreign...
June 30, 2020
It Is Time For All Nations To Support Extension Of Iran Arms Embargo
In May 2018, when the world learned that Iran had concealed a secret nuclear weapons archive before, during and after negotiations over the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), supporters of the...
June 30, 2020
Pivoting Toward China
In 1972, Nixon went to China, where he met with Communist leader Mao Zedong. Thanks to that bold diplomatic initiative, the United States and the People’s Republic learned to peacefully co-exist, living...
June 30, 2020
The Regime in Iran Is Struggling. It’s Time for Washington to Exploit Its Weaknesses.
The Islamic Republic has been preparing for more nationwide demonstrations. Under the guidance of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), the theocracy’s praetorians,...
June 30, 2020
German intel says Iran ‘massively promotes antisemitism, Israel hatred’
The domestic intelligence agency for the city-state of Berlin disclosed Thursday in a new report on antisemitism that Iran’s clerical regime is a leading sponsor of Jew-hatred. “Antisemitism and hatred...
June 30, 2020
German–Iranian dissidents urge MP to resign from antisemitic BDS NGO
Three prominent German-Iranians who have gone to great lengths to oppose the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel urged Green Party MP Omid Nouripour on Monday to resign from...
June 29, 2020
Iran’s COVID-19 Disinformation Campaign
Excerpt In the Middle East, the Islamic Republic of Iran quickly became the epicenter of the COVID-19 crisis. According to Iranian authorities, the virus has infected over 207,000 Iranians and killed more...
June 29, 2020
The Clock Is Ticking on the Next Iran Nuclear Crisis
In early June, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) released two reports on the Iranian nuclear program. They make for worrisome reading. A year into its decision to start breaching the constraints...
June 28, 2020
IAEA Board Resolution Criticizing Iran Is Only the First Step
On June 19, the key policymaking organ of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) passed a resolution calling on the Islamic Republic of Iran to cooperate with the watchdog’s ongoing probe...
June 27, 2020
Bipartisan strategy for countering China’s challenge to international order
Excerpt John Bolton’s new book describes President Trump alternately bashing and begging China’s leadership, all driven by shifting electoral considerations. If Bolton’s description is correct,...
June 26, 2020
Will COVID-19 Motivate Congress to End Anonymous Incorporated? Our Financial and Collective Security Increasingly Depends on It.
The $10 trillion global stimulus to combat COVID-19 is already triple that spent for the entire 2008-2009 global recession. The fraud that is sure to follow will be larger than the entire GDP of some countries....
June 26, 2020
New Sanctions on Assad Aim to Prevent Atrocities
In 2013, the regime of Bashar al-Assad received a report that opposition forces had captured and killed an employee of the defense ministry. That report was false. The man — a photographer from the...
June 26, 2020
Turkey and Iran Orchestrate Joint Military Operations Against Kurdish Insurgents
Turkey and Iran last week carried out joint military operations against Kurdish insurgents in northern Iraq’s self-ruled Kurdistan region. This security cooperation shows that despite the lethal clashes...
June 25, 2020
Congressional Momentum Builds to Establish U.S.-Israel Working Group
The Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) released its version of the Fiscal Year 2021 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) on Tuesday, and it includes a provision to require the establishment of...
June 25, 2020
Iran Threatens to Repudiate Key Nuclear Verification Agreement
The Iranian parliament, or Majles, ratified a motion on Tuesday directing the government to stop implementing a key nuclear verification agreement called the Additional Protocol (AP). While Iran has already...
June 25, 2020
Donald Trump’s Silence on Al-Qaeda Is Deafening
On Saturday, June 13, President Trump delivered remarks at the U.S. Military Academy graduation ceremony. “We are ending the era of endless wars,” Trump declared. “In its place is a renewed, clear-eyed...
June 24, 2020
Post Covid-19: Challenges and Opportunities for the CAMCA Region
Epidemics are not new to the CAMCA region and historical accounts document many of them. In Genghis Khan’s main code of laws, Yasa, public health infractions, such as polluting or urinating in rivers,...
June 24, 2020
Cratering Economy Drives Iranian Rial to All-Time Low
The Iranian rial has lost 10 percent of its value over the past two weeks, and more than 30 percent since the start of the calendar year. The regime may still have sufficient hard currency reserves to end...
June 24, 2020
Iran’s rulers (still) seek nuclear weapons
Baden-Wurttemberg is a bucolic state in southwest Germany but its capital is Stuttgart, one of the world’s great high-tech centers. Like other German states, Baden-Wurttemberg has its own intelligence...
June 23, 2020
America in 2020: “Insurrection” or “Incipient Insurgency”?
In the two weeks of disorder that followed the death of George Floyd, 200 cities imposed curfews; 31 states and the District of Columbia called out the National Guard; active-duty U.S. troops deployed in...
June 23, 2020
State Department Plays Key Role in New U.S. China Strategy
The White House on May 26 unveiled its new strategic approach to China, which seeks to export its authoritarian political system around the world in order to dominate regions, co-opt or coerce international...
June 23, 2020
China wants to dominate space, and the US must take countermeasures
China is determined to replace the U.S. as the dominant power in space. While proclaiming its peaceful intentions, Beijing’s doctrine considers space a military domain, and it is investing heavily in...
June 22, 2020
How to Beat China’s Military-Civil Fusion
In September 2018, 27-year-old Ji Chaoqun—a graduate of the Illinois Institute of Technology and a soldier in the U.S. Army Reserves—was arrested for operating as a Chinese intelligence agent for Beijing....
June 21, 2020
Biden blasts BDS: Why it matters
Amidst the pandemic and the protests following the murder of George Floyd, a series of important Israel-related policy statements by presidential candidate Joe Biden and his top aides have gone largely...
June 21, 2020
Countering China Is for the BIRDs
In 1950, as Cold War tensions were on the rise, President Harry Truman asked allies to stand and be counted. Israel reflexively stepped up and backed the president who bravely supported the creation of...
June 20, 2020
From India’s Himalayan Border to Our Local Cell Networks, It’s Time to Push Back Against China
High in the Himalayan mountains, Chinese soldiers ambushed Indian troops this week, resulting in a brutal battle on the Indian side of their shared border. Twenty Indians were killed, while China won’t...
June 19, 2020
COVID-19 in Morocco
Although Morocco seems to have escaped the worst of the pandemic with a relatively low number of confirmed cases and deaths, the COVID-19 crisis has devastated the country’s economy. Morocco, which has...
June 19, 2020
Washington’s Muted Response Emboldens Erdogan’s Hostage Diplomacy
A Turkish court on June 11 convicted Metin Topuz, a Turkish national and liaison officer for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration at the U.S. Consulate General in Istanbul, to eight years and nine months...
June 19, 2020
The U.S. Is Right to Push to Extend the U.N. Arms Embargo on Iran
It’s not every day that Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, borrows from the lexicon of international relations theory. Highlighting the Islamic Republic’s proliferation of conventional...
June 18, 2020
In Confronting Beijing, Let’s Not Hold Ourselves Prisoner to the Cold War
China’s efforts to withhold critically important, time-sensitive information about COVID-19 and its recent provocations in Hong Kong and the South China Sea have gripped Washington in recent weeks,...
June 18, 2020
Unfinished Business
In 2010, at the height of the Iran sanctions regime, Houshang Farsoodeh, Houshang Hosseinpour, and Pourya Nayebi—three hitherto unknown Iranian businessmen—appeared in Tbilisi, capital of the Republic...
June 17, 2020
The Revolutionary Potential of the Coronavirus Pandemic
Picture Europe in the mid-15th century. The continent was recovering from the bubonic plague. Elites controlled access to information, with monks laboriously copying books letter by letter. Recovery from...
June 17, 2020
Understanding the New Sanctions on Syria
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