The International Community No Longer Can Afford to Prioritize Diplomatic Virtue Signaling over Effective Strategies
The Alawite Insurgency Against the Government Continues to Exist but Presently at a Much Lower Level
The Regime’s Influential Ayatollahs Issue Serious Threats in Their Religious Decrees That Can Retain Their Potency
Should Tolerate Faculty Who Support Hamas, Hezbollah, the PFLP, or Any Other Terrorist Organization
The PKK Founder’s Latest Call Stands in Contrast to Decades of Armed Struggle Against a State That Has Denied Kurdish Rights
The Government Is Reducing Fuel Quotas and Is Considering Digital Fuel Cards, Tiered Pricing, and Energy Coupons
Each Group Should Reveal Their Expenditures and Sources of Income
The Iranian Regime Is Subcontracting Murders to European Criminal Networks: They Are Recruiting Mafia Organizations to Do Their Work, and No One Is Laughing at It Anymore.
Researcher Who Presented Anti-Israel Paper at 2001 Hate Fest in Durban Condemns Conservatives as ‘Extremists’
Spotlight: What Next for Iran?
Sustained airstrikes by Israel on myriad military targets throughout Iran, coupled with a massive attack by United States bombers, did considerable damage to Iran’s nuclear program, humiliated the regime, and reduced its ability to terrorize the region. But the Islamic Republic has yet to be defanged.
What comes next? Is a deal with the wounded regime to cease uranium enrichment possible, or is further military action likely? How long is Israel willing to live with an Islamic Republic that remains committed to acquiring nuclear weapons? Despite public statements to the contrary, will Trump press for regime change? MEF experts weigh in on these and other pressing issues.
What comes next? Is a deal with the wounded regime to cease uranium enrichment possible, or is further military action likely? How long is Israel willing to live with an Islamic Republic that remains committed to acquiring nuclear weapons? Despite public statements to the contrary, will Trump press for regime change? MEF experts weigh in on these and other pressing issues.
Too Many Self-Proclaimed Leaders Have Become Commentators, Recycling Talking Points Instead of Organizing Networks Inside Iran
Middle East Quarterly - Current Issue
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Summer 2025 Volume 32: Number 3
Summer 2025 Volume 32: Number 3
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A Joint Podcast Series by the Middle East Forum and the American Jewish University -
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A Joint Podcast Series by the Middle East Forum and the American Jewish University
Middle East Forum Observer
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Antisemitism
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Necmettin Bilal Erdoğan, Widely Regarded as Turkey’s de Facto Crown Prince, Declared Jews Are a Cursed Race -
PHILADELPHIA – August 20, 2024 – A member of Maryland’s “Commission on Hate Crimes Response and Prevention” is out of a job. Ayman Nassar, the second Islamist commissioner to get tossed from the hate crimes board within three months, resigned on August 19 amid public outrage over his role in terror-linked organizations and his history of anti-American, antisemitic, and homophobic hate speech.
Nassar has accused Israel of harvesting the organs of living Palestinians and shared posts referring to Gaza as a “Holocaust.” He is chairman of the Aafia Foundation, a “terrorist support group” that seeks to free “Lady Al Qaeda” Aafia Siddiqui and other convicted terrorists from prison.
