Analysis & Commentary
Iran’s Car Industry - A Big Sanctions Buster
Over the past six years, the United States and its European allies have imposed an impressive sanctions regime against Iran. Sanctions have successfully caused severe stress to Iran’s economy...
EU Moving Toward Ban of Hezbollah Military Wing
The European Union has moved toward a consensus on outlawing the armed wing of Hezbollah, with its inclusion on the EU terror list slated to take place in late 2013.
Seyyed Shamseddin Hosseini
Almost a year after the United States and the European Union imposed unprecedentedly harsh sanctions against Iran to prevent it from developing nuclear weapons...
Connecting the Dots: Hezbollah, Iran’s Web of Plots
As the European Union grapples with a ban of the Lebanese Shi’ite organization Hezbollah within its territory, reports emerged last week of foiled Iranian and Hezbollah...
Europe Has a Serious Hezbollah Problem
The legendary World War I British intelligence officer T.E. Lawrence—now forever known as Lawrence of Arabia—once described his commander, Brigadier-General Gilbert Clayton, as being...
Has Turkey Betrayed the West?
On January 25 of this year, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan made a stunning but widely overlooked announcement: His government was interested in joining the Shanghai...
Iran Agent Monitoring Chabad Arrested in Bulgaria
Bulgarian police officers last summer arrested a Canadian citizen linked to the Iranian government who engaged in surveillance of the local Chabad center in the capital of Sofia, a well-placed...
Are Sanctions on Iran Working?
American and European Union sanctions against Iran have not yet “worked”, acknowledges EU sanctions coordinator Francesco Fini, because obviously “we don’t have yet a negotiated solution...
In Europe, a Growing Case for Banning Hezbollah
In the wake of several recent high-profile cases incriminating Hezbollah in Europe, there are growing cracks in the European Union's policy on the Lebanese terror group.
A Mysterious Iranian-Run Factory in Germany
For years, mystery surrounded an Iranian-controlled factory tucked away in this town of 70,000 in Germany’s industrial west. The plant manufactured high-pressure gas tanks, but its managers...
Report Warns of Hezbollah, Iran Threats in Balkans
A leading Balkan-based website covering the region’s politics published in late March a comprehensive study on Israeli-Balkan relations and the threat of Hezbollah, along with its chief sponsor Iran.
The Lead
Now we have the Berlin Jewish Museum's latest exhibit "The Whole Truth: Everything you always wanted to know about Jews". That's right, in that land that so many Jews have such strong feelings about...
Being the Jew in the Box
It’s not often that someone compares you to the Hottentot Venus, Tilda Swinton, and Adolf Eichmann, all in the same hour. But yesterday, depending on your point of view, I was all three. In the week since the Jewish Museum in Berlin...
The Jew in a Box
It's safe to assume that the German organizers of an exhibit that centers around a Jew sitting in a Plexiglas box, answering questions from museum-goers, anticipated some controversy.
What More Will It Take for the EU to Ban Hezbollah?
Last July, the then–foreign minister of Cyprus, Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis, whose country held the European Union’s rotating presidency, stated, “Should there be tangible evidence of Hezbollah...
The Frank Gaffney Show
FDD's Benjamin Weinthal discusses the European Union’s reluctance to classify Hezbollah as a terrorist organization.
‘Iranian Militia Monitored Bulgarian Synagogue’
A US-based think tank report has uncovered surveillance by Iranian militia Qods Force of the only synagogue in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia. This suggests possible preparations for terrorist activity...
Most of Europe Reluctant to Crack Down on Hezbollah Despite Growing Threat
A House hearing on Hezbollah as a global terrorist threat coupled with Thursday’s prison sentence of a Hezbollah member — the first in a European court — brings...
Senate Shows United Support for Blocking Iran Access to Euros
The Senate showed strong support over the weekend for blocking Iran's access to euros, as Congress continues to push for additional measures to choke funding to Tehran's nuclear program.
Senate Authorizes Funding to Keep Iran From Laundering Euro
The U.S. Senate unanimously authorized funding for programs that would make it easier to shut out Iran from the European Central Bank's money transfer system. The amendment to the budget resolution passed early Saturday...
