Clare Lopez is the Vice President for Research and Analysis for the center for Security Policy. Ms. Lopez manages the Center’s counterjihad and shariah programs, bringing with her also an expertise on Iran, Hizballah, and southern border issues. From 2010-2014, she was a Sr. Fellow with the Center. Lopez began her professional career as a CIA operations officer and later applied her national security expertise as a consultant, intelligence analyst, and researcher in various contract positions within the defense sector. She has been an instructor for military intelligence and Special Forces students and lectures widely on Iran, Islam, and the Muslim Brotherhood around the country. Earlier an advisor to EMP Act America, in February 2012 Ms. Lopez was named a member of the Congressional Task Force on National and Homeland Security, which focuses on the Electro-Magnetic Pulse (EMP) threat to the nation and is a member of the Center’s Secure the Grid Coalition.
Lopez is the co-author of two published books on Iran, author of an acclaimed paper for the Center, The Rise of the Iran Lobby, and co-author/editor of the Center’s Team B II study, “Shariah: The Threat to America”. Ms. Lopez received a B.A. in Communications and French from Notre Dame College of Ohio and an M.A. in International Relations from the Maxwell School of Syracuse University. She completed Marine Corps Officer Candidate School (OCS) in Quantico, Virginia before declining a commission to join the CIA.
This is quite a list this time, but at the top (and as federal investigations continue), we must highlight the possibility that U.S. taxpayer funds found their way not just to Somali fraud schemes, but possibly the Al-Shabaab Somali terrorist organization, and even possibly as donations to Democrat politicians in Minnesota. “Trump’s Treasury Secretary Says Somali Migrants […]
“MEF Report Reveals DHS Hands Millions to Terrorist-Linked Groups” at the Middle East Forum, July 21, 2025 From 2013-2023, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security funded mosques and Islamic groups linked to the Islamic Republic of Iran and numerous Islamic jihad and terror organizations. With the second Trump administration now in office, it may be hoped that […]
In the wake of events in the Middle East these last couple of weeks — Israel’s Operation Rising Lion and the U.S.’s Operation Midnight Hammer — this month’s newsletter will focus on the Trump administration’s perspective, role, decisions, and actions there. Some have been amazing and even spectacular, but others give reason for some pause, […]
EDITORS NOTE: Quick primer on Islamic dress for women — A ‘niqab’ is the full face covering that leaves only the eyes showing. Other Islamic garments that cover the body from head to toe include the enveloping abaya and the full-body burqa seen on women under Taliban rule in Afghanistan. A hijab covers the head, […]
It’s another New Year, but ages-old ‘rape jihad’ never stops. With new attention being focused on the rape gangs in Britain (thanks to Tommy Robinson and Elon Musk), plus International Women’s Day coming up on 8 March 2025, we again unfortunately have a litany of abuse stories to share with you. Robert Spencer at Jihad Watch remains […]
Looking forward to different national security policies across the board with the incoming Trump administration, this is our last round-up of Biden-Harris administration policies that did not put America First. We expect newsletters to contain a much different set of headlines as we head into 2025! “Plea deal for KSM & other 9/11 terrorists is a […]
The next time you hear that “Islam is good for women…” watch this: The Islamic Republic of Iran faces attack from multiple sides, none more threatening than from its own people. The Iranian Parliament first passed strict new “Chastity and Hijab” laws, but then backed off, at least temporarily. Women and girls in Iran still […]
Critical Thinking vs. Shariah Part 71: Marriage “Iran to open hijab clinic, framing defiance as mental health issue” at Iran International, November 13, 2024 We’re seeing echoes of the Soviet Union and other tyrannies, now in the Islamic Republic of Iran. With total regime power over the people, where dissent is outlawed, disagreement with regime […]
Warnings about “the threat from foreign terrorists” from senior U.S. national security officials such as FBI Director Christopher Wray have been sounded repeatedly in recent months. U.S. Central Command commander Gen. Erik Kurilla likewise has been emphasizing the capabilities of Islamic jihad terror groups including al-Qaida (AQ), the Islamic State (IS), and its offshoot, the […]
The Trump assassination attempt has shown the stakes for the U.S., Israel, Republicans, and indeed, the world, could not be higher. Recently released reporting about an ‘Iranian assassination’ plot may have little or nothing to do with the July 13 assassination attempt on President Donald Trump at a rally event in Butler, Pennsylvania. In March […]
Dr. Harold Rhode, a Mideast scholar and former adviser in the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the Pentagon, recently penned, “Misunderstanding Iran,” an insightful essay at the Jewish Policy Council that offered a sobering analysis of why we in the U.S. and the West more generally so often, so badly misunderstand the Iranian regime. In […]
Thousands upon thousands of illegal migrants are flooding across the U.S.’s wide open southern border with Mexico every day. Among them are hundreds of kids, including very young children, many of them unaccompanied by any adult. Their parents have handed them over to the cartel coyotes to be moved north across the U.S.-Mexico border, in […]
In an ominous warning to Israel and regional Sunni countries, Major General Hossein Salami, the commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), on Wednesday threatened those nations that have “established political and security relations with the Zionist regime,” a reference to the Jewish State of Israel. He added, “We explicitly declare and warn that the continuation […]
Aside from all the other perfectly good reasons to keep Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on the United States (U.S.) Department of State Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO) List, there is one more that it seems no one wants to mention. The Biden administration seems absolutely desperate to be allowed back into the disastrous July […]
A 20 July 2021 Press Release from Congressman Mo Brooks (R-AL) deserves both attention and credit. At his website, the Congressman from Alabama reported on a meeting he’d attended with Dr. Li-Meng Yan, a medical doctor, Ph.D. virologist, and whistleblower. At the meeting, Dr. Yan provided insider information about the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 (aka the ‘coronavirus’). […]