Kenneth R. Timmerman

Both Republican and Democrat administrations have consistently sought to change the behavior of the Islamic regime in Tehran. As I recounted in the Fall 2024 issue of inFOCUS Quarterly, Democrat administrations have sought accommodation with the regime, while Republicans tended to apply pressure through sanctions. Neither approach has been met with much success for one […]

The Islamic regime in Iran is on a roll. Since the Biden-Harris administration took office in January 2021, the United States stopped enforcing the Trump-era sanctions on Iranian oil exports. They paid $6 billion in exchange for the release of five dual-citizen hostages and sought to revive the failed 2015 nuclear deal. They allowed the […]

Israel’s adversaries and America’s adversaries – from Hamas to the Houthis to Hezbollah to Palestinian Islamic Jihad to Syria’s Bashar Assad – are all puppets on the string of of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Focus on one battlefield at a time ignores the puppet master. Join us as reporter and Iran analyst Kenneth Timmerman […]