BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,158, September 23, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The American decision to leave Afghanistan to lessen the burden on the domestic economy, protect US troops, boost the nation’s security, and put an end to the “Forever War” …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,114, August 5, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: By directly speaking to the people of Iran, former Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu dispelled the “Israelphobia” the Islamic Republic had instilled in Iranian society. In the process, he undermined …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,014, May 3, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The West assumes that if the Islamist regime of Iran is granted some leeway, it will stop its aggression toward other nations. The Revolutionary Guards’ push for absolute power …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,994, April 13, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The Islamist regime in Tehran has delivered Iran to China in exchange for security guarantees against the West. While the regime was never in compliance with the original nuclear …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,952, March 7, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Iran’s hegemonic ambitions depend on an unbroken Shiite arc from Bahrain to Lebanon. It is for this reason that the Islamist regime considers the maintenance of its influence in …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,754, September 22, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Many western analysts wonder how much longer the Iranian regime will be able to survive under the weight of backbreaking US sanctions. What they are missing is that the …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,709, August 26, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) was originally intended by the Islamist regime to be an ideologically oriented militia that would compensate for the regular Iranian army’s lack of …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,651, July 20, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The rise of Islamism as a postmodern ideology is inextricably tied to a congenital, and fundamentally antisemitic, negation of the Jewish State. Israel’s survival depends on the defeat of …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,586, May 28, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The Islamic Revolution in Iran, which brought Islamists to power for the first time in modern history, pitted the global left—perhaps best personified by Michel Foucault—against the global right. …
