BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,154, September 17, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The new president of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ebrahim Raisi, has selected cleric Esmail Khatib as Minister of Intelligence. Khatib is a radical Islamist with close ties to …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,147, September 6, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The US invaded Afghanistan in 2001 to overthrow the Taliban regime and al-Qaeda after the 9/11 attacks. Iran opposed the US presence, as it strove (and continues to strive) …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,105, July 26, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: At the end of July 2021, a delegation of eight Iranian opposition members will visit Israel to take part in cultural and political meetings planned by the Institute for …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,062, June 3, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: A presidential election will take place in Iran on June 18, and it is rumored that Ali Khamenei prefers one candidate above the others: Chief Justice Ebrahim Raisi. …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,061, June 2, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The US Office of the Director of National Intelligence recently released its annual threat assessment, in which Iran is mentioned no fewer than 60 times as part of a …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,036, May 19, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: While most European intelligence services are alert to the terrorist activities of Iran’s IRGC, they pay too little heed to the IRGC’s media network, which spreads pro-regime propaganda …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,999, April 16, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Khomeinism, the ideology of the Islamic Republic of Iran, encompasses the radical ideas of its founding father Ayatollah Khomeini. Antisemitism is a central tenet of this ideology and the …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,965, March 14, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: On February 24, 2021, William J. Burns was confirmed as Joe Biden’s new CIA director. The Iranian mullahs want to use terrorism to coerce Biden into lifting the crippling …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,954, March 8, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The magnitude of the terrorist threat in the Middle East has grown steadily since the outset of the so-called “Arab Spring.” The need to modernize intelligence in the service …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,950, March 7, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: On February 13, 2021, the FBI issued a public appeal to locate Monica Witt, a former US counterintelligence agent who defected to Iran in 2013 and was formally charged …
