Erfan Fard
ARTICLES BY: Erfan Fard
Examining Iran’s Ties to the Taliban
Shortly after the 9/11 attacks on the American homeland in 2001, the US invaded Afghanistan to overthrow the Taliban regime and Al-Qaeda. US policy was...
Examining Possible Succession Scenarios In Iran
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is the main economic, intelligence, and military power in Iran. While also very strong politically, the Corps has yet...
Antisemitism Is Inseparable from Khomeinism
In adopting the ideology of Ayatollah Ruhollah Mustafavi Khomeini upon its establishment in 1979, the Islamic Republic of Iran replaced the country’s millennia-old monarchy with...
Israeli Intelligence Cooperation with Arab Allies Thwarts Iranian Terrorism
The large-scale withdrawal of US military forces from the Middle East, which occurred during the administrations of Barack Obama and Donald Trump, handed Iran an...
An American Turncoat and Iranian Espionage
On February 8, 2019, former US intelligence specialist Monica Witt was charged with betraying her oath to protect and defend the US by conducting espionage...
US Intelligence, Joe Biden, and the Dilemma of Iran
The year 2020 was chaotic and bizarre -- yet by its end, a new era of peace had dawned between Israel and four Arab states....
Iran’s Intelligence Minister Sends a Clear Signal to the Biden Administration
President Joe Biden and his newly formed intelligence team have the task of designing a new American approach to the Islamic regime in Iran —...
Quds Force Chief Esmail Qaani Is Out to Get America
The Quds Force, which is estimated to have about 10,000 to 12,000 fighters, is the expeditionary arm of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). It...
