Gregg Roman

After fragile peace with Iran, Washington’s sharpest minds turn their own weapons inward… and our sources inside the regime pay the ultimate price. THE CLOSING WINDOW — my first literary espionage thriller. July 1 • Middle East Forum Press Pre-order: amazon.com/dp/B0H6JZ16Z9

$100 oil. A Saudi tanker struck. Trump weighing a “massive attack.” A signed nuclear pact suddenly conditioned on Saudi normalization. In Issue 027 of Middle East Insider, @greggroman tracks the price now attached to every regional conduit—from Hormuz and Bab el-Mandeb to the Ceyhan pipeline. mefinsider.meforum.org/p/issue-027-th…

🚨 SCANDAL: US taxpayers funded nearly $80 MILLION in mostly Biden-era grants from @HHSGov to 14 terror-linked Islamist groups. I’ve just published a shocking Middle East Forum (@MEForum) audit that shows how govt incompetence led to bankrolling extremist groups, many with undeniable links to terrorists.  “Health and Human Services Hidden Handouts” is the third @MEForum report in a series that shows our government giving millions of dollars to groups that hate America and our way of life.  We’ve got the receipts, and they show how an agency created to help Americans with Medicaid and Medicare is now being exploited as a vehicle for Islamist indoctrination. Your hard-earned money helped Islamists foster community dependence and build political power.  It’s a game as old as the Muslim Brotherhood itself. The only difference is now unsuspecting deep state agencies are footing the bill. The most disturbing findings include: ▪️Hamas-aligned @CAIRNational chapters received $42.2 million for Afghan resettlement, despite accusations of massive grant abuses in California.  ▪️Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Center (@hijrahva)—which hosted Al Qaeda recruiter Anwar Awlaki, Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hassan, and two 9/11 hijackers—received grants to promote coronavirus vaccines. Yet, prior to the grants, the mosque held a Coronavirus and Faith Series that featured misinformation and conspiracies about the virus, along with claims that the pandemic was divine punishment for Americans.  ▪️The Muslim American Society’s (@mas_national) Sacramento branch raked in $90K in HHS sub-grants to promote women’s health literacy. As the overt arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in America, MAS belongs to a movement that promotes Female Genital Mutilation. In fact, MAS’s former secretary general was forced to resign as an imam after promoting the brutal practice. Now, the same group apparently teaches Afghan women about gynecological care.  Contrary to reason, an agency established to help Americans stay healthy gave out $14 million to radical foreign institutions. Highlights include: ▪️Research funding to a Palestinian pollster (@PSR_Palestine) whose surveys were allegedly manipulated by #Hamas handlers, according to documents the Israeli military discovered in Gaza.  ▪️Money for Senegal’s Cheikh Anta Diop University (@UCAD_Senegal) to study the plight of gay Muslim men living with HIV/AIDS, despite at least 10 cases of homophobic student mobs hunting down suspected gay classmates at the school over a four year period.  ▪️Aligarh Muslim University (@AMUofficialPRO) received HHS-originated grants for medical research, despite multiple ISIS and other terrorist cells discovered at the college in recent years.  It is difficult to fathom the depths of ignorance and woke depravity that led to this situation. The vast majority of the money (87%) was awarded during the Biden-Harris administration.  As a policy action institute, @MEForum doesn’t just report the problems. We offer bold, time-tested solutions. Check out the Four Ds for Countering Radical Islam in the thread below. To share just one example of our policy solutions in action: The Middle East Forum worked with @chiproytx’s team to urge @HHSgov and @SecretaryKennedy to blacklist CAIR as a federal grant partner. Weeks later, RFK Jr. announced a debarment investigation into CAIR’s terror ties and alleged grant abuses. It’s time to extend these investigations across HHS. Will @SecretaryKennedy and @HHSgov do right by Americans and defund all 14 groups? meforum.org/press-releases…

CAIR Plaza rises near Union Station, a mixed-use development poised to deliver decades of rental income straight to CAIR. Yet $7.7 million came from the Islamic Development Bank, backed by Iran, Qatar, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia. CAIR insists it receives no foreign government funding. This sharia-financed “loan” says otherwise. Enemies of America are building a permanent cash machine blocks from the Capitol. Time to expose the hypocrisy and cut off the flow. @meforum @GreggRoman @chiproytx @JudicialWatch #CAIR #ForeignFunding #NationalSecurity

Full piece: meforum.org/mef-observer/i… #Iran

US strikes hit the 388th Brigade barracks: 10 soldiers killed, 60+ critically wounded. Soldiers on video say they're collapsing from heat exhaustion during rest hours. Officials rattle their sabres from air-conditioned studios. Their conscripts die in the south.

Tehran can't keep its lights on. But it wants to occupy New York. Iranian state TV is calling to arrest Trump before any talks. That's what a regime sounds like when it knows it's losing.

Every instrument we are currently using against Iran: strikes, blockades, and sanctions shares the same structural ceiling. They can raise the price of the regime's behavior, but cannot change it. One weapon can finish this conflict: the Iranian people. mefinsider.meforum.org/p/issue-022-th…

Before you predict the Revolutionary Guard's moderation, read its own words. Saeid Golkar did, in the MEF Observer, two days before Tehran suspended the deal. The Guard's message to its commanders after the memorandum: negotiation is not reconciliation, this is the moment to increase force, and anyone who hopes the Guard will one day separate from clerical rule "will take that wish to the grave." Their words, not mine. The Revolutionary Guard may accept deals. It never accepts peace. Policy built on any other assumption is autobiography, not analysis. meforum.org/mef-observer/t…

One month ago Washington and Tehran signed a 14-point memorandum. Today two American soldiers are dead in Jordan, Tehran has declared the Strait of Hormuz closed again, and its deputy foreign minister says Iran is done implementing the deal. The autopsy is simple. The Hormuz clause was written so both sides could read it as victory. Tehran read "safe passage arrangements" as sovereignty over the strait. Washington read it as freedom of navigation. Sixty days of diplomacy produced exactly one round of indirect talks in Doha. Missiles, proxies, enrichment, the stockpile: all deferred, all intact. I wrote on June 19 that this was not a peace deal, it was an intermission with better press. I take no pleasure in the confirmation. Here is the lesson, and it is older than this war. Ambiguity in an agreement is not a bridge between positions. It is a weapon handed to the side that intends to cheat. A durable end requires verifiable dismantlement: of the blockade capacity, of the missile force, of the enrichment program. Anything less is scheduling the next round. The question for Washington is not how to restore the memorandum. It is whether it can finally name the win condition. thenationalnews.com/news/mena/2026…

Phillies check: 54 and 44, second in the NL East, 3 back of Atlanta. Here is the number that matters. This team started 9 and 19. Under Don Mattingly it has gone 45 and 25, a .643 clip. That is not a hot streak. That is a different team. In June I wrote that the pennant is not won in June, it is lost in June. They did not lose it. Sixty-four games left, three to make up, and the All-Star Game already showed the Bank can roar. Win the series in front of you. The rest follows. statmuse.com/mlb/ask/philli…

The European Parliament has expelled FEMYSO, the Muslim Brotherhood's youth network in Brussels, after 33 MEPs laid out its Islamist pedigree. Good. That is Debar. Now run the rest of the Four D's: Defund the €288,856 it drew from European Commission coffers, Designate the network behind it, and Disavow every official who lent it legitimacy. Non-violent Islamism is not harmless Islamism. It is the patient kind. Brussels found its spine for one week. Now we learn whether it keeps it. @meforum has the story: meforum.org/fwi/fwi-news/e…

The American Blockade Holds. The Rial Breaks. mefinsider.meforum.org/p/issue-021-th…

As the Trump administration’s 60-day Iran negotiating window reaches its halfway point, @FoxNews turned to Middle East Forum Executive Director @greggroman to explain why diplomacy collapsed into renewed war. “The U.S. saw it as an opportunity to get a long-term agreement. The Iranians saw it as an opportunity to rearm,” Roman said. Read the full report: foxnews.com/politics/trump…

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My column: Trump is taking away Iran's sanctuary The U.S. has expanded targets to bridges and railways while Iran's munitions deplete nationalpost.com/opinion/mohame…

The Israeli minister of transportation @regev_miri is doing more to endanger the US-Israel national security relationship at this point than any other Israeli politician. Stop this idiocy and rescind your order immediately. @Netanyahu needs to order an immediate reversal.