Broadcasting as a weapon: The Persian-language Nazi propaganda and its consequences

I delivered this speech on June 4, 2023 on the occasion of the Klangteppich V - Festival for Music of the Iranian Diaspora in Berlin

Hamburg, 04.07.2023

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

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

Hypocrisy and hope: How the media fool themselves about Iran

The Times of Israel, February 9, 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

Startling Revelations From an Iranian Smuggling Case in Hamburg

the ALGEMEINER, September 17, 2013

Tehran at the Book Fair

Frankfurt welcomes the regime's censors as a gesture of ,convergence via a sustained dialogue'

Wall Street Journal, September 17, 2012

"Against those who want to destroy me, I must be strong."

What is the connection between Shoah-remembrance and Iran? An Interview with Holocaust survivor Fanny Englard

Jungle Word (Berlin/Germany), April 5, 2012

Iran: What Will Germany Do Now?

A turning point has been reached that challenges the reigning paradigm of German-Iranian relations

Welt am Sonntag, November 27, 2011

Sanctions against Tehran - WHY IS THE EUROPEAN UNION HESITATING?

Rèalitè EU, December 21, 2011

What about the European Union?

A "financial war" against Tehran would be the most humae way of avoiding a nuclear one

RÉALITÉ EU, November 23, 2011

Matthias Küntzel was presented with the ADL Human Rights Award

The Anti-Defamation League's statement and the acceptance speech

Palm Beach, FL, February 11, 2011

No Solidarity with the German Journalists Arrested in Iran

Public indifference encourages the regime

Hamburg, December 15, 2010

Ahmadinejad's Bank

Germany has to make up its mind about calling a halt to the activties of Hamburg-based EIH bank

Hamburg, December 10, 2010

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

Descending from Green Pastures into Hell

perlentaucher, April 2010

BERLIN, THE AYATOLLAHS, AND THE BOMB

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

Who is Who in German trade with Iran?

A dossier on the branch offices and agencies of German companies in Iran

February 4, 2010

The Berlin-Dubai-Tehran Axis

The German-Emirati Joint Council for Industry & Commerce seeks new business in Iran even as Merkel promises additional sanctions

Wall Street Journal, February 25, 2010

Iranian Antisemitism: Stepchild of German National Socialism

The Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs IV:1, January 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

The West Betrays the Iranian Protest Movement

TELOSscope - the telos press blog, June 26, 2009

Sanctions? What Sanctions? German-Iranian Trade Booms

Pajamas Media, November 27, 2008

Germany, Iran and the Party of the Left

A Commentary Commissioned by "Neues Deutschland", which it Refused to Publish

WWW.TELOSPRESS.COM, June 15, 2008

The Tehran-Berlin Axis

Wall Street Journal, May 15, 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

Berlin and Vienna Stand Against the West

European Divisions on the Iranian Bomb

World Politics Review, October 11, 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 Sense Of Foreboding

German Reactions to Ahmadinejad

Transatlantic Intelligencer, November 2005

The “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” at the Frankfurt Book Fair

Transatlantic Intelligencer, October 2005