January 15, 2020
The fallout from Trump escalating tensions with Iran isn’t just felt in the Middle East.
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January 15, 2020
The memory of the 1979 hostage crisis, and the visceral feeling of humiliation and rage it inspired, plainly colors Trump’s views on Iran today.
January 15, 2020
The biggest impediment to any resurgence of ISIS in Iraq would be good governance and stability in Iraqi politics. U.S. troops are not contributing to those goals.
January 14, 2020
If Iranian military and political leaders learn the right lessons from this incident, they will implement the long overdue reform of Iran’s political, economic, and administrative structures.
January 14, 2020
It is in the interest of the region, Europe, and the world to help Iran succeed in managing the economic fallout from Trump’s sanctions.
January 14, 2020
Can we breathe easy or have we merely paused to catch our collective breath before resuming the climb up the escalation ladder?
January 14, 2020
If there is a silver lining, it is that Washington and Teheran have moved away from the brink of war and have opted to take the de-escalation off-ramps they offered each other since Soleimani’s killing.
January 14, 2020
Individuals outside Iran who are advocating for an aggressive intervention or a war against Iran are primarily driven by their own ideological convictions, rather than by genuine care for the wellbeing of the people of Iran.
January 13, 2020
Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia have breathed a collective sigh of relief following signs of de-escalation between Tehran and Washington.
January 13, 2020
Thirty years later, perhaps it’s time to assess just how well the United States has fulfilled the expectations President Bush articulated in 1990.
January 13, 2020
There are plenty of intermediaries working to cool U.S.-Iran tensions. The European Union should be putting its recourses toward saving the JCPOA.
January 13, 2020
One well-established principle of sanctions policy is that the country or group imposing the sanctions must be prepared to take yes for an answer.
January 13, 2020
Few noticed Trump’s recent offer to work with Iran to combat ISIS and on other “shared priorities.”
January 13, 2020
The assassination of Qassem Soleimani emphasizes America’s confounding inability to think through the role of military force as an instrument of strategy.
January 12, 2020
It would be smart for Oman’s two closest Western allies, the United States and Great Britain, to reach out to work with the new leader as soon as possible.
January 12, 2020
Pompeo’s directive appears to put an end to the Trump administration’s hinting that it supports efforts to destabilize the Iranian government if not topple it.
January 12, 2020
Ultimately, negotiations, dialogue, and engagement remain the real pathway out of the decades-long conflict between the United States and Iran.
January 12, 2020
War profiteering is one thing. Funding the enemy who kills your own troops is quite another. Such a concept is inherently a Catch 22.
January 11, 2020
The Trump administration has no intention of respecting the wishes of the Iraqi government.
January 11, 2020
Is Donald Trump beginning to learn some of the lessons that can enable him finally to start growing up in the presidency?
January 10, 2020
If we, the people of the U.S. and Iran realize that we have much more in common with each other than we do with our respective national governments, then we can come together and promote global engagement, people-to-people exchanges and diplomacy.