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Gatestone Institute is a non-profit, non-partisan think tank focused on raising awareness about important issues often overlooked by the mainstream media. Their mission includes promoting: - Democratic institutions and the rule of law - Human rights - A robust and free economy - A military that can maintain peace both domestically and globally - Energy independence - Keeping the public informed about threats to individual freedoms, national sovereignty, and free speech.

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Ukraine: The Next Phase of War

4 days ago | gatestoneinstitute.org | Amir Taheri

Students of history know that starting a war is always easy; what is difficult is ending it. The current war in Ukraine is no exception. The trouble is that Russian President Vladimir Putin, the man who started this war, also believed he knew how to end it. More than three years later, it is clear that he is as clueless on that score as anyone.
Iranian Regime's Trojan Horse "Civilian Use" Lie on Nuclear Weapons

5 days ago | gatestoneinstitute.org | Majid Rafizadeh

For more than two decades, the Iranian regime has played a dangerous and calculated game of deception with the West by skillfully masking its nuclear ambitions under the pretense of "civilian use." This is not a new tactic — it's a time-tested playbook used by rogue regimes to buy time, mislead international watchdogs, and continue marching in the shadows toward nuclear weapons and the missiles to them.
Why Hamas Wants To Control Gaza's Humanitarian Aid

1 week ago | gatestoneinstitute.org | Khaled Abu Toameh

The Iran-backed Palestinian terrorist group Hamas has reconstituted its "Executive Force" as part of an effort to control humanitarian aid and "impose law and order" in the Gaza Strip.
'I Saw You Come Out of the Church': The Persecution of Christians, March 2025

1 week ago | gatestoneinstitute.org | Raymond Ibrahim

The following are among the abuses and murders inflicted on Christians by Muslims throughout the month of March 2025. The Muslim Slaughter of ChristiansUganda: On March 16, Hanifa Hamiyat, a Muslim woman poisoned and killed three people: a young Christian couple, as well as her own 18-year-old daughter, who accidentally ate the same poisoned food the Muslim woman had offered to the Christians for sharing Christ with the daughter. The Christian woman she killed was six months pregnant.
When Tehran Demands the Impossible

1 week ago | gatestoneinstitute.org | Amir Taheri

For the past two weeks, I have been bombarded by questions from colleagues and "experts" from across the globe wondering how to assess the current round of talks between Tehran and the Trump administration in Washington. The typical question is: what is going on? Judging by comments and leaks from the Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi and President Donald Trump's envoy Steve Witkoff -- although problems remain -- things are going smoothly.
President Trump: How You Can Be the Greatest Leader of the 21st Century

1 week ago | gatestoneinstitute.org | Majid Rafizadeh

Iran's true intentions could not have been made any clearer: Last week, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi flatly declared the issue of uranium enrichment is "non-negotiable."Iran has called President Donald J. Trump's bluff about bombing the country if the regime does not voluntarily dismantle its uranium enrichment centrifuges, ballistic missiles and the rest of its nuclear program. Trump immediately folded.
'Stupid Intelligence' Is Threatening Trump's Nuclear Negotiations with Iran

2 weeks ago | gatestoneinstitute.org | Con Coughlin

With the Trump administration seemingly intent on negotiating a new nuclear deal with Iran, it is vital that the White House first makes a realistic assessment of the current state of Iran's nuclear programme, which most Western intelligence experts believe is aimed at producing nuclear weapons.
Palestinian Leaders Play Musical Chairs To Dupe Western Donors

2 weeks ago | gatestoneinstitute.org | Khaled Abu Toameh

On April 26, a group of unelected Palestinian Authority (PA) officials approved the appointment of Hussein al-Sheikh as "Deputy Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and Vice President of the [non-existent] State of Palestine." PA President Mahmoud Abbas, who also serves as chairman of the PLO Executive Committee, had nominated the 64-year-old al-Sheikh for this position in accordance with a decision by the Palestinian Central Council, a body...
China Just 'Folded' in the Trade War

2 weeks ago | gatestoneinstitute.org | Gordon Chang

China, according to Reuters and Financial Times reporting on April 25, is not uniformly imposing its new 125% across-the-board tariff on American goods. In short, certain imports from the U.S. are in fact coming in tariff-free. Beijing's new policy has not been announced and is not official.
The Next Pope: Kerygma or Catechism?

2 weeks ago | gatestoneinstitute.org | Amir Taheri

In 2013 when a little-known cardinal from Argentina was elected the Pope of the Catholic Church, taking the title of Francis, many wondered in which direction he might walk in Saint Peter's shoes. The election came as a surprise in the wake of the unprecedented decision of Pope Benedict XVI to abdicate the pontificate.