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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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.

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

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 ...

Declaring that it is “now or never” for Israel to take out Iran’s nuclear program, Reuel Marc Gerecht and Ray Takeyh ignore a lesson of the Gaza war: You can’t eliminate what you can’t ...

In a recent piece in The Atlantic, Reuel Marc Gerecht, a senior fellow with the neoconservative Foundation for Defense of Democracies, urged the United States to confront Turkey.

Calling U.S. nuclear diplomatic engagement with Iran “kaput” before the first round of talks took place, Reuel Marc Gerecht and Ray Takeyh declare that the time for military action has arrived ...