Iran

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

80 Years Later the Echo of the Wannsee Conference Still Exists

My contribution to a Webinar on the subject “80 Years Since Wannsee: An Alarm for Other Genocides?”

Paris, London, Berlin, Hamburg, January 20, 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

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

Tehran’s War against Israel in a changing Middle East

The decades-old taboo against Israelis meeting with Arab leaders had been broken. More and more Arab countries are willing to accept Israel as an ally in the defense against Iran

Indiana University, Bloomington, U.S.A., March 26, 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

How to challenge Islamic Antisemitism?

Islamic antisemitism is a major foreign policy issue: Only governments can stop the flow of hate messages by denouncing and punishing state- and non-state actors.[1]

Hamburg, March 2, 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

Tehran’s Efforts to Mobilize Antisemitism: The Global Impact

Hamburg, 06.09.2017

They want to turn Paris into a second Tehran

After the 11/13 attack – what next?

Berlin, November 21, 2015

Q & A: Küntzel on roots and develoment of the Iranian regime’s antisemitism

By Karmel Melamed

The JEWISH JOURNAL’S HOMEPAGE, Los Angeles, August 26, 2015

Obama’s New Iran Policy: Is America Drifting toward Appeasement?

The Israel Journal Of Foreign Affairs, Vol. VIII, No. 2 (2014), pp. 25–36.

The Roots of Iranian Antisemitism and its Current Consequences

Lecture, delivered on behalf of ISGAP at the Harvard Faculty Club in Cambrigde, MA.

Harvard University, March 11, 2014.

Hypocrisy and hope: How the media fool themselves about Iran

The Times of Israel, February 9, 2014

Obama, the Senate and the psychology of appeasement

Counsels of prudence and restraint may become the prime agents of mortal danger. A view from Europe

Hamburg, January 19, 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

“Moderate” Holocaust Denial in Iran?

A statement on Holocaust Denial in Iran, presented on September 20th, 2013 at the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust

Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust (LAMOTH), September 20, 2013

Startling Revelations From an Iranian Smuggling Case in Hamburg

the ALGEMEINER, September 17, 2013

America’s Shifting “Red Lines” on Iran’s Nuclear Ambitions: A Wedge Issue in US–Israeli Relations

Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs VII : 1 (2013) pp 37–44.

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

Iranian Holocaust Denial and the Internet

Why Facebook’s permission to deny the Holocaust is wrong

The Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs, Vol. VI, 2012/5772, No.1

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

What about the European Union?

A “financial war” against Tehran would be the most humane way of avoiding a nuclear one

RÉALITÉ EU, November 23, 2011

No Solidarity with the German Journalists Arrested in Iran

Public indifference encourages the regime

Hamburg, December 15, 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

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

Suicide Terrorism and Islam

Suicidal killing was not seen in the first 1360 years of Islam but invented only some decades ago

American Foreign Policy Interests, Vol. 30, no. 4, July-August 2008

The West Betrays the Iranian Protest Movement

TELOSscope – the telos press blog, June 26, 2009

Defining Jew-Hatred Down

The curious response to Ahmadinejad at the U.N.

The Weekly Standard, November 17, 2008

The Tehran-Berlin Axis

Wall Street Journal, May 15, 2008

Antisemitism, Messianism and the Cult of Sacrifice: The Iranian Holy War

This paper was presented at Columbia University, New York City, March 6, 2008 under the auspices of Columbia’s chapter of “Scholars of Peace in the Middle East” (SPME)

Columbia University New York, March 6, 2008

Iranian Holocaust Denial

This paper was presented at Bangor/Maine under the auspices of the Jewish Community Relations Council and the Congregation Beth Abraham and at the Michael Klahr Holocaust Center of the University of Maine at Augusta on March 16 and 17, 2008.

Bangor/Maine and Augusta/Maine, March 16 and 17, 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

Judeophobia and the Denial of the Holocaust in Iran

Posen Paper in Contemporary Antisemitism No. 8 of The Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism (SICSA)

Hebrew University of Jeruslam, 2007

Berlin and Vienna Stand Against the West

European Divisions on the Iranian Bomb

World Politics Review, October 11, 2007

Has Austria accepted the Mullah’s bomb?

Semi-state-owned Austria energy giant OMV plans mammoth deal with Iran

Vienna, May 9, 2007

Iran’s Obsession With The Jews

The Weekly Standard, February 14, 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

Ahmadinejad’s World

The deployment of the Basiji in the mine fields shows what one can expect from the Mullah-Regime

July, 30, 2006

Ahmadinejad’s Demons

A Child of the Revolution Takes Over

The New Republic, April 24, 2006

Are 500,000 Keys to Paradise Enough?

Germany “Confronts” Ahmadinejad

Transatlantic Intelligencer, January 2006

A Sense Of Foreboding

German Reactions to Ahmadinejad

Transatlantic Intelligencer, November 2005

The Booksellers of Tehran

Every book fair exhibits bestsellers. But anti-Semitic bestsellers? And in Germany, of all places?

The Wall Street Journal Online, October 28, 2005

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

Transatlantic Intelligencer, October 2005