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August 26, 2020
Debunking the Legal Argument Against a U.S. Snapback
The United States sent a letter to the UN Security Council last week alleging that Iran was in “significant non-performance” of its commitments under the 2015 nuclear deal, formally known as the Joint...
August 25, 2020
Beijing Seeks to Divide Seoul and Washington
Last week, the South Korean and Chinese governments held high-level meetings to enhance coordination on North Korea policy. Beijing seeks to erode Seoul’s commitment to working with the United States...
August 17, 2020
Tensions in Gaza and on Israel’s Northern Border – What Next?
Tensions are once again escalating on the border between the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip and Israel. What started with explosive-lade balloons has given way to the firing of rockets and even riots at the...
August 14, 2020
North Korean Hackers Target Israeli Defense Companies
North Korean hackers launched attacks against Israel’s defense sector, according to a new report from ClearSky, a private cybersecurity company. The hackers likely sought to uncover military secrets essential...
July 22, 2020
Amazon Pays a Fine for Crimea Business, but Occupied-Territories Policy Remains Murky
Amazon.com, Inc., settled with the U.S. Department of the Treasury earlier this month for violating U.S. sanctions by delivering products to Crimea, a region of Ukraine under Russian occupation, and several...
July 13, 2020
Iran Could Face a Summer of Nuclear Sabotage
A powerful explosion destroyed an advanced centrifuge assembly plant in Iran earlier this month, an event which anonymous sources told U.S. journalists was the result of Israeli sabotage. An attack by Jerusalem...
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...
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 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 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 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 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 16, 2020
The U.S. Natural Gas Crash: Geopolitical Implications
While the dramatic drop in global oil prices since the COVID-19 outbreak has grabbed headlines, more geopolitically important developments may be occurring in natural gas markets. These developments could...
June 8, 2020
Israeli and American Strategic Opportunities Amidst the COVID-19 Crisis
Albert Einstein once said that in the middle of any difficulty lies an opportunity. The COVID-19 pandemic poses enormous challenges to the Middle East, but the strategic opportunities for the United States...
June 5, 2020
COVID-19 in Iran and Turkey: Mismanagement, Crackdowns, Economic Crises, and Corona-Diplomacy
Iran and Turkey have been the two countries in the Middle East hardest hit by COVID-19. Their respective epidemics – which both governments have largely mismanaged – have amplified their democratic...
June 3, 2020
How Supply Chain Vulnerabilities Endanger Every Part of National Security
Out of all the supply chains in the U.S. economy, the supply chain of the defense industrial base (DIB) is the most vital to secure. In 2018, a Presidential Task Force report observed that Department of...
May 28, 2020
Kim Jong Un Returns to Preside Over Central Military Commission
Kim Jong Un made his first public appearance in three weeks to oversee a May 25 meeting of North Korea’s Central Military Commission (CMC). The key takeaway: Pyongyang remains fully committed to developing...
May 15, 2020
Project Vampire: TCIL Effort Seeks to Mitigate Real-Time Threats to the Home Networks of U.S. Government Workforce
With the COVID-19 pandemic forcing a radical realignment of where and how the American workforce works, more and more sensitive business operations are being handled on home networks. Operating outside...
May 11, 2020
U.S. Sanctions on Iran: Is Natural Gas Next?
The Trump administration’s maximum pressure campaign is having a significant impact on Iran’s macroeconomic stability and draining the government’s export earnings and reserves. As Iranian oil exports...
May 10, 2020
Pompeo to Israel: A Scene Setter
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is visiting Israel on Wednesday. It will be the first international trip by a senior American official since the COVID-19 pandemic began. During his visit, Pompeo...
May 7, 2020
Two Years On, the Trump Administration’s Iran Policy Continues to Make Sense
In the two years since the United States left the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the Trump administration has adopted a policy of “maximum pressure”...
May 1, 2020
UN Report Reveals North Korea’s Persistent and Evolving Maritime Sanctions Evasion Schemes
The UN Panel of Experts on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) belatedly released a biannual report last week divulging North Korea’s persistent sanctions evasion activity, including its...
April 30, 2020
China’s Coronavirus Disinformation Campaigns Are Integral to Its Global Information Warfare Strategy
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) successfully coerced the European Union into toning down criticism of China in an April 24 report that documents disinformation operations related to the COVID-19 pandemic....
April 24, 2020
Erdogan’s COVID-19 Cover-up Hampers Turkey’s Coronavirus Response
Turkey has overtaken China as the country with the highest number of confirmed COVID-19 cases outside the United States and European Union, reporting more than 100,000 cases as of April 23. Despite Turkish...
April 21, 2020
Kim Jong Un’s Health and What Comes Next
Following a South Korean report that Kim Jong Un is suffering complications from a cardiovascular procedure, U.S. media reported that the North Korean leader may be in grave danger. If true, the Korean...
April 20, 2020
Covid-19 Management and Decision-Making in Israel
There is an old joke that if you put three Israelis in a room, you will get more than ten opinions. Due to social distancing, this is currently impossible. But the Israelis still have more than ten opinions...
April 20, 2020
Regime in Iran Exploits Canada’s Policy of Engagement Without Pressure
Canada has little to show for its government’s conciliatory approach to the Islamic Republic of Iran following the death of 57 Canadian-Iranians on January 8, when the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps...
April 17, 2020
COVID-19 and the Need for Enhanced U.S.-Israel Technology Cooperation
As its strategy to address the novel coronavirus, or COVID-19, continues to develop, the United States should not overlook the important role that its most scientifically advanced international allies could...
April 8, 2020
Tehran Can Afford to Fight COVID-19 Even Without Sanctions Relief
The Iranian government is leading an international campaign to pressure the United States to lift sanctions. American and European negotiators of the ill-fated Iran nuclear deal, along with dozens of pressure...
April 7, 2020
Energy Markets After Covid-19
The global oil market entered the COVID-19 crisis with extreme supply excess, created by record U.S. and Russian production alongside an intentional production increase by Saudi Arabia. This week, on April...
April 7, 2020
Pandemic Spurs Iranian Regime to Escalate
Iran may be an epicenter of the global COVID-19 pandemic, but that has not kept the Islamic Republic from pursuing its rivalry with the United States more aggressively than before. The regime’s strategy...
March 25, 2020
Coronavirus Dashes Iranian Hopes of Emerging from Multi-Year Recession
After a catastrophic year in which Iran’s clerical dictatorship watched the country’s economy shrink by 9.5 percent under pressure from U.S. sanctions, the first weeks of 2020 brought some hope that...
March 23, 2020
New Iraqi Prime Minister-Designate Poses Threat to Iran, Opportunity for U.S.
The March 17 nomination of Adnan al-Zurfi as Iraq’s prime minister-designate highlights the extent to which Iran’s stranglehold on Iraqi politics could be eroding. As such, Zurfi’s nomination holds...
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