On July 23 2026, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced sanctions against a senior Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood (EMB) official, three other individuals, and three entities that have provided material support to HAMAS. Speaking about the OFAC sanctions, Secretary Bessent declared that “The Trump Administration…
[Exclusive to Citizens Commission on National Security] Introduction This Iranian regime’s nuclear weapons program has been abundantly documented in the Open Source literature for decades. But in response to questions about why Israel and the United States (U.S.) decided in June 2025 that they could wait no longer to, at…
“They Don’t Think Like We Think” In a April 17, 2026 “Beyond the Ideological” Substack post, “The IRGC’s Eschatological Gamble and the Arab World’s Verdict,” Zineb Riboua explains some important realities about how the Iranian regime’s leadership – clerical and Revolutionary Guards – or what’s left of them think about…
Mostly unnoticed in the recent flurry of world events, from the lightning fast seizure and extradition of Venezuelan dictator, Nicolas Maduro, by the United States (U.S.) in a 2-3 January 2026 overnight raid to the ongoing U.S. and Israeli takedown of the Iranian regime, was an important meeting in Istanbul,…
On Nov. 24, 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order (EO) directing the State and Treasury Departments to begin the process of deciding whether to designate some select branches of the Muslim Brotherhood as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) and Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs). Notably, this initial executive order specifically named…
The Muslim Brotherhood’s long game isn’t bombs but burrowing—an influence network shaping campuses, media, and government while Washington looks past the foreign regimes bankrolling it. Twelve years ago, in 2013, the Gatestone Institute published an in-depth account of the Muslim Brotherhood’s infiltration operations vs. the U.S. government (written by this author). The vicious…
Iran’s Grand Ayatollah Naser Makarem Shirazi declared a fatwa against President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on June 29. A fatwa is a religious decree on a matter of Islamic law that is issued by a senior Islamic jurist. Shirazi holds the rank of a Marja’a-e Taqlid, the highest…
See Part 1 HERE. Next, let us turn to look at where this concept of hijra comes from. Following is an overview of the doctrinal and historical bases for the campaign called hijra (الهجرة in Arabic). The word means “migration,” and is based on the original journey in 622 CE of…
Even as the Trump administration is moving with promised speed to secure America’s borders, within those borders, the Islamic mission of hijra is making inroads, notably in Texas. In the city of East Plano is the East Plano Islamic Center (EPIC), whose “activities are in accordance with the teachings of the…
Trump’s DOJ vows to fight antisemitism and Hamas support—but will it confront the foreign powers, like Turkey and Qatar, funding U.S. campus extremism? The Trump administration has taken a series of decisive, direct steps and executive actions that make clear its intention to end the chaos of antisemitism on American…
Speaking before a U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on March 25, 2025, U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard stated in her opening remarks that “The IC continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and Supreme Leader Khamenei has not authorized the nuclear weapons program he suspended in…
Time is running short on efforts to stop the Iranian regime’s nuclear weapons development before its warheads and missiles are fitted together and ready to deploy and deliver to targets both near and far. At a January 31 press briefing, Deputy Director of the National Council of Resistance of Iran…