Emanuele Ottolenghi

Emanuele Ottolenghi (@eottolenghi) is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a nonpartisan research institute in Washington, D.C.

Totalitarians Inc.
Why is Joe Biden alternately ignoring and funding the ever-closer alliance between Iran and Putin?
byEmanuele Ottolenghi
Murder on the Beach
Paraguay’s slain criminal prosecutor Marcelo Pecci made many enemies in his lifelong effort to protect the rule of law. One of them was Hezbollah.
byEmanuele Ottolenghi
Accommodating Iran Will Be No More Successful Than Accommodating Russia
Putin’s horrifying war in Ukraine shows the likely results of the West continuing to ignore Iran’s nuclear quest
byEmanuele Ottolenghi
Soleimani U
A new academic center in Caracas named after the Iranian mass murderer is the latest node in Tehran’s soft power network in Latin America
byEmanuele Ottolenghi
Underwriting Hezbollah Inc.
By funding the failed Lebanese state and lifting sanctions on Iran, the United States is partnering with the world’s deadliest crime syndicate
byEmanuele Ottolenghi
Snap-Back: A Journey Through Iranian Sanctions Evasion in Georgia
The fantasy is that sanctions halt economies. The reality is that enforcement requires tedious bookkeeping, painstaking forensic work, and the ability to stay a step ahead of experienced middlemen.
byEmanuele Ottolenghi
Why the Iran Nuclear Deal Could Be Catastrophic for Israel
Holocaust-denying rhetoric masks Nazi-like fantasies
byEmanuele Ottolenghi