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A Tale of Iran, Syria and a Busy Oil Tanker
Although sanctions have forced Iran to cut back dramatically on its shipping traffic, some Iranian-linked vessels continue to slip through the net. For a brazen example, take the case of an Iranian-flagged oil... more...
Israel Shores Up Its Defenses, While Iran Remains Quiet
Informed sources are confirming reports that there was a major explosion at a uranium enrichment plant at an Iranian nuclear facility in Fordow last week. However, the White House believes the reports... more...
Iran’s Supreme Investor
Last month, the Obama administration added seven new Iranian companies, because of proliferation concerns, to the ever-growing list of sanctioned Iranian entities. Yet, as important as this latest move is... more...
Tackling Tehran
With each passing month, Iran appears closer to the nuclear capability threshold everyone expects to be a regional game-changer. With diplomacy unable to yield a desirable compromise and widespread... more...
An Unholy Alliance
Germany appeared over the past several months to have finally fallen in line behind European Union efforts to stiffen economic sanctions against Iran. But in late October a group of German parliamentarians dealt a blow... more...
Sanctions On Iran: How Washington Can End The Game Of ‘Catch Me If You Can’
Since the European Union announced a new round of sanctions over Iran’s nuclear program last October, it has enacted new measures and an impressive group of companies to its blacklist. more...
Iran: Nuclear Moment of Truth Nears
In September, when Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, famously showed the United Nations General Assembly a crude picture of a bomb to highlight Iran’s proximity to nuclear weapons... more...
What If Iran Had Had Nukes?
Israel — as its friends and enemies never forget — is a “one-bomb country.” One nuclear weapon is all it would take to wipe out a nation whose territory is smaller than Djibouti, with a population not as large as that of Burundi... more...
Is Iran Resorting To An Insurance Scam To Keep Oil Exports Going?
P&I for oil tankers covers pollution and spillage, and international maritime authorities require Very Large Crude Carriers — the largest class of tankers on the oceans — to carry mandatory third-party... more...
Obama’s Top Foreign Policy Priority Must be Iran
President Obama must home in on the foreign policy challenge that poses the most imminent threat to world security: Iran. The theocratic regime in Tehran is undeniably closer to obtaining a nuclear bomb. more...
‘Austria Committed to Implementing Iran Sanctions’
Austria’s Foreign Ministry flatly rejected on Monday accusations by the Simon Wiesenthal Center, which asserted over the weekend that Vienna is a major hub for Iranian money-laundering, in violation of... more...
Report: WH in Talks with Iran
The Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronot is reporting that the Obama administration has been conducting one-on-one talks with its Iranian counterparts. Negotiations, according to the report, have been held... more...
Analysis: German-Iranian Trade Booming
Germany’s exports to Iran have totaled over 25 billion euros since President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took office in 2005. Last week’s visit by three German deputies to Iran, which included a meeting... more...
German MPs Do Business with Iran
European politicians in Brussels and Berlin have unleashed a storm of criticism over their planned trips to meet representatives of Iran’s regime. A group of five left-wing MEPs had been slated to go... more...
Obama Runs From Iran
The Iranian challenge to US interests and allies is the most pressing strategic issue for Washington in the Middle East. With the US election less than a week away, now is as good a time as any to look... more...
Revealed: Why Israel Delayed D-Day on Iran
When Benjamin Netanyahu stood up at the United Nations General Assembly last September with a cartoonish drawing of a bomb designed to show how close Iran was getting nuclear weapons, close... more...
European Lawmakers Cool to Obama’s Iran Sanctions
President Obama's efforts to isolate Iran’s rogue regime is drawing a cool response from some key European lawmakers, who may be putting trade over principle. A group of German members of parliament... more...
Countdown to the Red Line in Iran
Iran's oil exports have been halved by economic sanctions, but that still leaves the regime with around $50 billion in oil income this year, according to calculations... more...
For Iran, No Red Line Means Green Light
On Sept. 17, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the United Nations that the world must draw a clear “red line” around the Iranian nuclear weapons program, and tell... more...
Romney on Iran’s ‘Route to the Sea’
Why focus on the realities of terror-sponsoring rogue regimes, when you can mock Gov. Mitt Romney instead? After Monday night’s Obama-Romney foreign policy debate... more...
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