The Iranian Uprising and the Nuclear Threat: How Should the West Respond

This is the speech I gave on November 17, 2022 in Gainesville, University of Florida

University of Florida, November 17, 2022

Biden, Berlin, and the Iranian Bomb

What will the new American administration and its European allies do to prevent Iran from getting the bomb?

TELOSscope, February 8, 2021

The Nuclear Deal Crumbles

The European-German policy toward Iran has definitively failed with Tehran's gradual exit out or the nuclear agreement. But this is still not recognized in Berlin

TELOSscope (www.telospress.com), May 24, 2019

Strategic Delusions: Why Germany Coddles Iran

Berlin's split with Washington on Iran long predates Trump - and it speaks to a dangerous naivety in German strategic thinking.

The American Interest, May 15, 2019

Tehran's War against Israel in a changing Middle East

The decades-old taboo against Israelis meeting with Arab leaders had been broken. More and more Arab countries are willing to accept Israel as an ally in the defense against Iran

Indiana University, Bloomington, U.S.A., March 26, 2019

After Trump's Iran Decision: Is the West Going to Split?

In the Conflict Over the Nuclear Deal, Germany and the EU Take Iran's Side Against Washington

TELOSscope, May 16, 2018

Trump’s Iran ultimatum has startled the European Union

The White House is blackmailing the Europeans to stop them from allowing themselves to be blackmailed by Iran

Hamburg, January 31, 2018

Global Jihad, Islamic Radicalism, and the Challenge to Europe

Keynote speech, delivered at the seminar “Global Jihad, Islamic Radicalism, the the Challenge to Europe”, organized by the Stockholm Free World Forum (Frivärld) and the Institute for Security & Development Policy on May 25, 2016, at Timbro, Stockholm

Hamburg, 18. März 2017

They want to turn Paris into a second Tehran

After the 11/13 attack - what next?

Berlin, November 21, 2015

Q & A: Küntzel on roots and develoment of the Iranian regime's antisemitism

By Karmel Melamed

The JEWISH JOURNAL'S HOMEPAGE, Los Angeles, August 26, 2015

Obama's New Iran Policy: Is America Drifting toward Appeasement?

The Israel Journal Of Foreign Affairs, Vol. VIII, No. 2 (2014), pp. 25-36.

Obama, the Senate and the psychology of appeasement

Counsels of prudence and restraint may become the prime agents of mortal danger. A view from Europe

Hamburg, January 19, 2014

Surrender in Geneva

The five permanent members of the Security Council and Germany nullify the United Nations sanctions regarding Iran

Telospress, November 25, 2013

"Moderate" Holocaust Denial in Iran?

A statement on Holocaust Denial in Iran, presented on September 20th, 2013 at the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust

Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust (LAMOTH), September 20, 2013

Startling Revelations From an Iranian Smuggling Case in Hamburg

the ALGEMEINER, September 17, 2013

America’s Shifting “Red Lines” on Iran’s Nuclear Ambitions: A Wedge Issue in US–Israeli Relations

Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs VII : 1 (2013) pp 37-44.

Joie de vivre and love of death - From the Arab Spring to the Gaza War

Statement to the rally "Hamburg for Israel. Stop Hamas terror!

Hamburg, November 26, 2012

Sanctions against Tehran - WHY IS THE EUROPEAN UNION HESITATING?

Rèalitè EU, December 21, 2011

The West's Policies Towards Iran: What Went Wrong?

A review of Dore Gold's book "The Rise of Nuclear Iran: How Tehran Defies the West", Regnery, 2009, 256 pp.

Jewish Political Studies Review, Fall 2010

BERLIN, THE AYATOLLAHS, AND THE BOMB

The Journal of International Security Affairs, No. 18, Spring 2010

Obama's Search for Peace in Our Time

The West goes wobbly on Iran

The Weekly Standard, Vol. 15, Issue 12, November 29, 2009

Iran Has No Right to Nuclear Technology

Accepting Iran's "right" to nuclear power is a recipe for disaster

Wall Street Journal, September 29, 2009

Defining Jew-Hatred Down

The curious response to Ahmadinejad at the U.N.

The Weekly Standard, November 17, 2008

Antisemitism, Messianism and the Cult of Sacrifice: The Iranian Holy War

This paper was presented at Columbia University, New York City, March 6, 2008 under the auspices of Columbia's chapter of "Scholars of Peace in the Middle East" (SPME)

Columbia University New York, March 6, 2008

Back to business as usual with Iran

The NIE report took the wind out of the sanctions campaign in Germany

Jerusalem Post, January 13, 2008

The Fantasy World of the Iran NIE

World Politics Review, December 18, 2007

Europe must decide

European governments have to put massive pressure on Iran and confront it with the alternative of either changing course or suffering devastating economic blows

Brussels, March 7, 2007

From Khomeini to Ahmadinejad

Mark Bowden's account of the occupation of the American Embassy in Tehran mirrors the dilemmas of America's current Iran policy

POLICY REVIEW No. 140, December 2006

A Dubious Achievement: Joschka Fischer, the Road Map, and the Gaza Pullout

Transatlantic Intelligencer, Fall 2005

Brilliant Achievement

Joschka Fischer, Yasser Arafat and the Road Map Peace Plan

December 2003