The Jewish state is about to play a much bigger role in the region’s energy trade and petroleum politics. BY JONATHAN H. FERZIGER | SEPTEMBER 4, 2020 A desert oil pipeline that Israel once operated as a secret joint venture with Iran could be a major beneficiary from the Trump-brokered peace deal with the United Arab Emirates. With the UAE formally scrapping the eight-decade Arab boycott of Israel—and other oil-rich Gulf neighbors likely to follow suit—the Jewish state is on…

BY: SUZANNE MALONEY Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt from “Book Review Roundtable: Iran Reframed” In June 2013, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader who has ruled the Islamic Republic of Iran since 1989, deviated from the usual script in remarks exhorting Iranians to cast ballots in upcoming presidential elections. After the standard diatribe against “global arrogant powers,” praise for the boisterous election campaign, and appeal for high turnout to “frustrate the enemy,” Khamenei ventured an unprecedented olive branch: “It…

Roundtable: Chair: Gregory Brew Contributors: Suzanne Maloney, Saeid Golkar, Farzan Sabet, Michael Rubin 1. Introduction: Selling a Revolution by Gregory Brew 2. Can Iran’s Revolutionaries Convert the Next Generation? by Suzanne Maloney 3. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the Manipulation of Iranian Hearts and Minds by Saeid Golkar 4. Can Iran's State Media Warriors Reframe the Islamic Republic for a New Generation? by Farzan Sabet 5. Iran’s Media Producers and the Open Lie by Michael Rubin 1. Introduction: Selling…

BY JOHN BOWDEN - 09/03/20 Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden (D) was endorsed Thursday by a group representing almost 100 former Republican lawmakers and officials who have joined an effort to defeat President Trump in November. The new group, Republicans & Independents for Biden, is led by former New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman (R) and said that its "sole mission is to defeat Donald Trump and elect Joe Biden the next President of the United States." “More than 180,000…

2 September 2020, 00:00 UTC Widespread torture including beatings, floggings, electric shocks, stress positions, mock executions, waterboarding, sexual violence, forced administration of chemical substances, and deprivation of medical care Hundreds subjected to grossly unfair trials on baseless national security charges Death sentences issued based on torture-tainted “confessions” Iran’s police, intelligence and security forces, and prison officials have committed, with the complicity of judges and prosecutors, a catalogue of shocking human rights violations, including arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance, torture and other…

"The Mounting Threats on Israel's Northern Border" Panel discussion between panelists: IDF Brigadier General (Reserve) Nitzan Nuriel, IDF Lieutenant Colonel (Reserve) Sarit Zehavi, and Professor Boaz Ganor, Founder and Executive Director of the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT). The ensuing conversation affords the viewer a sobering look at what threats Israel will face (and is currently facing) from its many enemies, especially those situated to its north. The discussion includes the threats of the Iranian proxy army Hezbollah in Lebanon…

August 24, 2020 By all outward appearances, Hatam Khatoun Nema was a small-time money changer working from a nondescript office in Järfälla, a workaday Stockholm suburb. In reality, the Swedish-Iranian businessman ran an obscure Hong Kong company, H M E A CO., LIMITED, that laundered hundreds of millions of dollars through a web of shell companies and businesses stretching from Singapore to Panama. A major customer of Nema’s operation was the Islamic Republic of Iran. Between 2012 and 2014, he…

By Michael Lipin, Ramin Haghjoo – 18th August 2020 WASHINGTON - The wife of a jailed Iranian dissident has criticized her nation’s Islamist rulers for ordering the couple’s son to go to prison for protesting the Iranian military’s January shoot-down of a Ukrainian passenger plane, saying the wrong people were being imprisoned for the incident. Fatemeh Maleki announced in an August 11 Instagram post that authorities had summoned her son Ali Nourizad to report to Tehran’s Evin prison within five…