Insights & Analysis

Iran International Journalist Attacked

The recent assault on Pouria Zeraati, a journalist for London-based Iran International, underscores the fears of many that the Islamic Republic may be escalating its campaign against anti-regime journ...

"The advocacy for this legislation has been a phenomenal display of unity within the diaspora, resulting in massive bipartisan support..."

"Why is the U.S. government promoting a top regime insider and the daughter of one of the Islamic Republic's most corrupt presidents?"

The Cost of Complacency: The Islamic Republic Gains as America Steps Back

The Islamic Republic is besting the United States. Over the past two decades, as the American public has tired of engagement in the Middle East after it peaked in response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, the Iranian dictatorship and its terrorist proxies have won the war of wills in the...

A Letter from Evin Prison: Mahvash Sabet

The Islamic Republic has “Disqualified” us Baha’is from Living When the revolution happened, I was 26 years old, working as the principal of a school in the south of the capital [Tehran]. One day, I received word that I had been “disqualified” from my job. Around the same time, I was also...

Improving the Proposed “Iran Sanctions Enforcement Act”

Subject: Improving the Proposed “Iran Sanction Enforcement Act” From: Navid Mohebbi, Policy Director at National Union for Democracy in Iran Background: Recently, Senators Joni Ernst (R-IA) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) introduced the “Iran Sanctions Enforcement Act.” This bill aims to turn...

Dignified Diplomacy, Not Capitulation: A Response to Senator Chris Murphy

This week Senator Chris Murphy had something of a tantrum on Twitter when he was faced with backlash to the Biden administration’s recently announced deal to release $6 billion to the Islamic Republic in exchange for 5 Iranian-Americans held hostage in Tehran. As the national media began to cover...

"The action by Meta [to ban Khamenei's accounts] serves to equalize the communication landscape and offset regime propaganda..."

Islamic Republic Proxy Attack in Northeast Jordan Kills Three U.S. Troops

The Islamic Resistance in Iraq, an Islamic Republic proxy militia, conducted a drone attack on a U.S. base at Tower 22 of the Jordanian Defense Network, located in northeast Jordan, on January 28. Thi...

Islamic Republic Cracks Down, Sentences Activists to a Combined 100+ Years in Prison

In recent weeks, the Islamic Republic sentenced numerous political dissidents to a combined 100+ years in prison. Those sentenced include several protesters detained during the Woman, Life, Freedom pr...

Islamic Republic Proxies Attack U.S. Forces in Iraq, Syria, and the Red Sea

The Islamic Republic Navy opened 2024 by deploying the IRIS Alborz, an Alvand-class frigate, to the Red Sea via the Bab el-Mandeb Strait on January 1. This occurred one day after the United States cla...

Tell Congress: No Sanctions Relief for Human Rights Abusers

In November 2019, Iran’s dictator Ali Khamenei murdered 1,500 innocent protesters in a nationwide massacre. This is among only the most recent of his regime’s four decade criminal reign. Now President...