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Iran’s hijab announcement is a decoyOp-Eds
Nov 4, 2025

Iran’s hijab announcement is a decoy

Read the full op-ed in The Washington Times. Foreign coverage of Iran often collapses a national struggle for liberation into a single symbol: the mandatory hijab. A few clips from Tehran show unve...

Mamdani’s Coalition of Socialists and Islamists Could, Like Tehran’s ‘Red and Black’ Alliance in 1979, Boomerang on LeftistsOp-Eds
Oct 30, 2025

Mamdani’s Coalition of Socialists and Islamists Could, Like Tehran’s ‘Red and Black’ Alliance in 1979, Boomerang on Leftists

Read the full article in The New York Sun Modern Iranian history flashes a bright caution sign as America’s far left and Islamist movements converge in our cities and universities. Iranians have se...

Iran Is Not Iraq, Afghanistan, or LibyaOp-Eds
Jul 22, 2025

Iran Is Not Iraq, Afghanistan, or Libya

Read the full article in The American Spectator When a government feels the need to repeatedly shut off the internet to silence its own people, it exposes its most crippling insecurity: citizens wh...

After Strikes, Trump Must Provide Maximum Support for Iran’s PeopleOp-Eds
Jun 27, 2025

After Strikes, Trump Must Provide Maximum Support for Iran’s People

Read the full article in The Hill Israel’s stated aim in its war with Iran was to “eliminate” the Islamic Republic’s nuclear and ballistic missile capabilities. And at this point, this is the only ...

Iran’s New President is No ModerateOp-Eds
Jul 9, 2024

Iran’s New President is No Moderate

Originally published in The Hill.   Just weeks after the last Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi died in a hillside helicopter crash, the international media’s focus is back on the Islamic Republic’s pr...

Congress Leads on Iran SanctionsOp-Eds
Apr 28, 2024

Congress Leads on Iran Sanctions

Read the full article in the Wall Street Journal Aid to Ukraine and Israel got more attention, but the same package of national-security bills contained an important provision expanding sanctions a...

The Latest Biden Iran Deal Is as Bad as You'd ExpectOp-Eds
Sep 19, 2023

The Latest Biden Iran Deal Is as Bad as You'd Expect

Originally published in National Review. In June, we wrote here that the administration of President Joe Biden was considering a freeze-for-bribe (“freeze-for-freeze” according to the administration ...

The Biden Administration’s Reckless Re-engagement with IranOp-Eds
Jun 27, 2023

The Biden Administration’s Reckless Re-engagement with Iran

Originally published in National Review. It is often lamented in Washington that protests in Iran happen all the time but eventually dissipate and disappoint. Those wondering why this happens might l...

How the U.S. Can Put an End to Iran’s Brutal CrackdownOp-Eds
Dec 16, 2022

How the U.S. Can Put an End to Iran’s Brutal Crackdown

Originally published in The National Interest. Last week, the Islamic Republic executed Mohsen Shekari and Majidreza Rahnavard, two twenty-three-year-old Iranians, for their role in the ongoing revol...

Belgium’s Prisoner Swap Deal Will Only Encourage Iranian TerrorismOp-Eds
Aug 1, 2022

Belgium’s Prisoner Swap Deal Will Only Encourage Iranian Terrorism

Originally published by POLITICO Europe. On July 14, Sweden’s judiciary struck a blow for international justice, when it sentenced Hamid Nouri—an Iranian prison official involved in the mass killing ...

IRGC deserves to remain on US terrorist listOp-Eds
May 20, 2022

IRGC deserves to remain on US terrorist list

Originally published by Al-Arabiya. In desperation to reach a nuclear deal, so-called progressive pressure groups and Democratic members of the Senate, such as Chris Murphy, pushed the Biden administ...

Tehran views the rise of the Taliban with both glee and suspicionOp-Eds
Sep 20, 2021

Tehran views the rise of the Taliban with both glee and suspicion

Originally published in the Washington Examiner. The regime in Iran initially welcomed the triumph of the Taliban over the central government in Kabul, celebrating the humiliation of the U.S., their ...