Iran Tracker

The Critical Threats Project (CTP) provides the public and policymakers with comprehensive, unique, and objective tracking and analysis of the primary national security challenges faced by the United States. CTP is a project of the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI), a private, nonpartisan, not-for-profit institution that is dedicated to research and education on issues of government, politics, economics, and social welfare based in Washington, D.C.

CTP presents the data and analysis necessary to inform policy about the threats posed by al Qaeda and associated violent Islamist groups, as well as threats emerging from the security, political, and economic dynamics in Iran, Pakistan, the Arabian Peninsula, the Horn of Africa, and  the Levant. CTP makes its findings available through two  websites, CriticalThreats.org and IranTracker.org; three daily news briefings – the Iran News Roundup, the Pakistan Security Brief, and the Gulf of Aden Security Review (focusing on Yemen and Somalia); and in-depth reports on issues affecting security in the Middle East and U.S. policy.

Frederick W. Kagan, a resident scholar at AEI, directs the Critical Threats Project. Please see detailed information on the Critical Threats team here. If you are interested in joining our team, please explore opportunities with the Critical Threats Project.

Please contact Charlie Szrom at charlie.szrom@aei.org with any questions you may have regarding CTP.

Interested in receiving regular updates, including rapid-response analysis of current events, from the Critical Threats team? Please email quicktake@criticalthreats.org.