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The Iranian Time Bomb

By Michael A. Ledeen
Ledeen, a well-known conservative pundit on Iran, argues passionately for a bolder, better-reasoned American policy toward the Islamic republic...more

 

 

 

 

PROJECTS & CASE STUDIES

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The U.S. is vulnerable to an emerging threat. An electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack could "cripple military and civilian communications, power, transportation, water, food, and other infrastructure."

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The Center for Terrorism Research (CTR) is dedicated to identifying effective strategies and techniques to combat the threat of terrorism.

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The Center for Law & Counterterrorism puts FDD in the forefront of legal aspects of the war on terrorism – finding the proper, shifting balance that protects both our freedoms and our safety.

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The Future of Terrorism Project examines the strategies that will be needed to defeat new, more lethal strains of terrorism that now threaten America and the free world.

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We are sending hundreds of billions of dollars in oil money to regimes hostile to our interests and our way of life. Our national and economic security is at risk as long as oil has a monopoly in the transportation sector.

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The Coalition Against Terrorist Media (CATM) brings together Muslim, Christian, Jewish and secular groups -- American and European -- concerned about the threat posed by terrorist-owned media outlets.

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The Committee on the Present Danger's goal is to stiffen American resolve to confront the challenge presented by terrorism and the ideologies that drive it.

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Africa, often called the “forgotten front” in the global war on terror, has become the next major front in the war by militant Islamism.

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A Pandora's box of corruption and incompetence at the United Nations has been exposed since FDD hired Claudia Rosett as its own investigative reporter and assigned her to the beat.

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Through educating the policy community and the public about the deadly activities of the Iranian-Hezbollah-Syrian axis, FDD attacks its most vulnerable points: its worldwide media operations, its standing in the United States and Europe, its finances, and its efforts to support terror around the world.

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MEDIA & RESEARCH

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Notes and Comments
IRAN'S GASOLINE SUPPLIERS: The Financial Times reports: The world's largest oil traders have quietly stopped supplying petrol to Iran in a sign that the threat of sanctions and Washington's behind-the-scenes efforts are paying off. .... Energy executives said that Vitol, Glencore and Trafigura, which have hitherto sold Iran half of its petrol imports of 130,000 barrels a day, stopped supplying Tehran because of mounting political risk. "The political and public relations problems more than outweigh the business rewards," said one executive. ... ...more
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross
03/9/2010



MEDIA

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In the Media

Whither Iran Policy?
Dr. Emanuele Ottolenghi, Commentary
03/10/2010


No Peace While World War Rages
Clifford D. May, Moment Magazine
03/10/2010


Who Is Leading On US-Mideast Policy?
Tony Badran, NOW Lebanon
03/9/2010


Press Releases

Shell Joins List of Companies Ending Gasoline Sales to Iran
03/10/2010

Notes and Comments

 

POLICY RESEARCH

Leadership vs. Leaderless Resistance: The Militant White Separatist Movement's Operating Model
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Madeleine Gruen
02/18/2010


Aid To Yemen: Throwing Good Money After Bad?
Jonathan Schanzer
02/3/2010


Iran Energy Monitor: 1/25/2010
01/26/2010

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FEATURED EXPERT
Khairi Abaza is a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, where he is focused on democratic reform in the Arab world, the spread of terrorism, and the influence of the media on politics.  Abaza has served as a member of the Foreign Affairs and Cultural Committees of the Egyptian Wafd Party, and is pursuing his doctorate in politics from the University of London. ...more
FROM THE BLOGS
From The Long War Journal: Indonesian bombing mastermind Dulmatin confirmed killed by Bill Roggio, 03/10/2010
Dulmatin, one of the most wanted al Qaeda-linked terrorists in Southeast Asia, has been confirmed killed, Indonesia's resident Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said during a meeting in Australia...more

From The Long War Journal: Adam Gadahn not in custody: Pakistani officials by Bill Roggio, 03/8/2010
Pakistani officials have begun to retract claims that a wanted American-born al Qaeda propagandist was captured yesterday during a raid in Karachi...more

From Faster, Please!: Iranian Clocks, Tick Tock, Tick Tock by Dr. Michael Ledeen, 03/7/2010
The failed Israeli ex-PM, Ehud Barak, gives us the benefit of his deep thinking about Iran...more

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