Why Europe should disregard the Graham-Menendez plan on Iran
For the European Union to side now with Trump would mean to effectively ‘lose’ Iran for generations to come.
For the European Union to side now with Trump would mean to effectively ‘lose’ Iran for generations to come.
Now that hardliners have swept Iran’s low-turnout parliamentary election, the regime must contend with a widening gap between it and society.
There is a growing number of nationalist, anti-government independents in Iran who refuse to affiliate with either reformists or hardliners and the U.S. ‘maximum pressure’ campaign isn’t helping them.
Hardliners will now have to share responsibility for Iran’s problems.
The bromance between Donald Trump and his “favorite dictator,” Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, has roots in Hosni Mubarak’s legacy.
U.S. and international sanctions have crushed North Korea’s health care system, making it harder to deal with the coronavirus.
Despite pulling out of the Iran nuclear deal, the Trump administration is now claiming the U.S. is an active “participant” to trigger mechanisms that will kill it for good.
The word “historic” gets tossed around to describe carefully scripted performances, “pseudo-events,” that we choose to treat as the stuff of history.
With Trump’s re-election uncertain, the pro-Iran war/regime change crowd may be running out of time to put the JCPOA away for good.
If there’s one thing that unites conservatives and progressives in South Korea’s polarized political climate, it’s opposition to the U.S. ambassador.
Conservatives won big in Iran’s parliamentary elections last week. The European Union needs to engage with it.
The U.S. would have been better off defining victory by adapting to local ways of war and peace.
U.S. imperialism in the early twentieth century produced Smedley Butler, but the interventionism of this century hasn’t produced a single comparable figure.
Since the Qassem Soleimani assassination, Washington and Tehran have intensified their efforts to try to outmaneuver each other for influence in Iraq.
Before the strengthening of trade links with India, Saudi Arabia usually supported Pakistan’s stance on Kashmir. Now their interests seem to have diverged.
Donald Trump’s feelings of invulnerability are partly rooted in America’s failure to hold anyone responsible for crimes committed in the “war on terror.”
The designation gives the Trump administration another justification for its “maximum pressure” campaign.
The Senate has given Trump a green-light to do pretty much whatever he wants. He’s now taking aim at the intel community.
With Israel’s third election in less than a year upcoming, Benjamin Netanyahu is turning to desperate measures to avoid going to jail.
What does anthropology and psychology have to say about our seemingly permanent state of war with Iran?
Given this administration’s track record, perhaps making it more difficult to send humanitarian goods into Iran was the point.