Entries by Clare M. Lopez

Can We Connect Iran’s Regime to Trump Assassination Attempt?

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: Iran Wants the Democrats to Remain in Office

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 […]

Too Many Don’t Get the CCP Mindset, They Should Start — Now

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 […]

Biden Administration’s Wide Open Border Policies Aid/Abet Child Sex Trafficking

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 […]

Iran Issues Ramadan Attack Warning in Threat to Mideast Peace

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 […]

The Main Reason the IRGC Must Stay On the Foreign Terrorist Organization List That No One Wants to Mention

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 […]

It’s Not About Where the Virus Escaped From: It’s About Where It Was Developed

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’). […]

FBI Edits Radical Islam Out of Anti-Terror Video Game: Who Is the Real ‘Puppet’?

The FBI has released a new edition of its anti-terror video game, Don’t Be a Puppet, that conforms to demands from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) to exclude Islamic jihad from a list of potential terror threats. In the game, a player is asked to work through a series of numbered boxes, beginning with […]

Connecting the dots to the Texas gunmen

Both gunmen identified in the May 3 attack against the “Draw Muhammad” event at the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, Texas, attended the Islamic Community Center of Phoenix, according to news reports. Elton Simpson and his roommate, Nadir Soofi, both were known to mosque leadership dating from 2006, although Usama Shami, chairman of the mosque’s […]

Call it Jihad: ‘Terrorism’ Just Doesn’t Define This Threat

2014’s spate of Islamic terror attacks against Western targets leaves observers grasping for words to describe what’s happening. President Obama doesn’t want to deal with it at all, so after a Muslim convert beheaded a woman in Oklahoma, he thought it appropriate to send the beheader’s mosque (the Islamic Center of Greater Oklahoma City) warm greetings about […]

From Lockerbie to 9/11: Iran is Let Off the Hook

A documentary that aired 11 March 2014 on the Al-Jazeera America channel presented compelling new evidence that Iran and the Syrian-based Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Counsel (PFLP-GC) directed and carried out the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 that crashed into Lockerbie, Scotland on 23 December 1988. “Lockerbie: What Really Happened?” presented formerly classified […]