Policy Director at UANI
Policy director of United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) and a non-resident scholar at the Middle East Institute’s Iran Program.
The circus is back in town. A new Iranian president arrives at the United Nations as a smiling mask to an undeterred adversary of the United States and too many credulous media and policy elites in this country cheer on the pageant. This needs to stop.
On Sunday, Iran announced the finalists for the presidency after the death of Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash. The list represents Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s purge of the system with an eye towards his own succession.
The victory of hardliners in Iran’s March 1 low-turnout parliamentary and Assembly of Experts elections will have implications for Tehran’s foreign policy and the selection of the next Supreme Leader.
The Office of Israel’s Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Monday announced the thwarting of an Iranian terror plot targeting Israeli businessmen in Cyprus.
The US Treasury Department published guidance on Thursday concerning the impact of US sanctions on US persons visiting or making donations to the Imam Reza Holy Shrine in Mashhad, Iran.
