There are many paths to regime change in Iran. In 2020, two of us (Edelman and Takeyh) wrote an essay in Foreign Affairs in ...

One of the hardest things imaginable is a bureaucracy reformed. “Secret” bureaucracies, like foreign intelligence services, are even more resistant to change, since it’s easier to hide routine ...

Past American triumphs were short-lived, but this time retaliation will be more difficult for Tehran.

Past American triumphs were short-lived, but this time retaliation will be difficult, at least for now.

Eric and Eliot host a special Shield of the Republic episode to discuss the Iranian response to Trump's strike on Fordow, ...

Built over 100 metres deep, Pickaxe Mountain is believed to be far more fortified than Iran’s Fordow facility, and possibly ...

A report raises concerns about Iran's potential hidden nuclear program under Pickaxe Mountain, as US airstrikes may have ...

Reuel Marc Gerecht, a resident scholar at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, noted that the track record of Iran’s overseas operatives demonstrates a lack of competence in their ability ...

Reuel Marc Gerecht, a former Iranian-targets officer in the CIA, is a resident scholar at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. Ray Takeyh is a senior fellow at the Council for Foreign ...

The mass of the mountain and the maze-like tunnel system offer a degree of security that, in the words of Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ Reuel Marc Gerecht, provides Iran “a nuclear weapons ...

Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei may be attempting to activate terrorist “sleeper cells” across the West as he repeatedly makes inflammatory statements rejecting President Trump’s calls for ...