Why talks with Iran have faltered and what Biden can do to revive them
Easing sanctions on humanitarian grounds would go a long way to show the US is serious about returning to the JCPOA.
Easing sanctions on humanitarian grounds would go a long way to show the US is serious about returning to the JCPOA.
Time is wasting, and as Tehran delays, it continues to accumulate enriched uranium and operate advanced centrifuges.
Arguments against the JCPOA only become comprehensible only when one understands that nuclear nonproliferation is not their goal.
The E3’s failure to stand up to Trump was compounded by a series of miscalculations in the six months since Biden took office.
The administration may be overhauling punitive sanctions — but some countries will still be treated differently than others.
Israel’s longest serving prime minister beat the Iran war drums for years and finally got the ear of an American president in Donald Trump.
FDD hawks tried to launder public allied intel docs in an effort to halt JCPOA talks, but a closer look reveals a house of cards.
Politico is hyping a ‘threat’ that may or may not be happening, but even if it was, there’s no need to hit the panic button.
With a potential prime minister more right wing than Netanyahu, Biden may have an even harder time pressing Tel Aviv for change.
With reformists out of the picture, the contest will serve as a mere formality for hardliners.
The paper of record continues to offer shoddy reporting on the JCPOA.
Both sides require an antagonistic relationship for survival.
A new letter from Senate Republicans once again displays the bankruptcy of ‘maximum pressure.’
Hardliners will take a financial hit too, as they control the black market.
JCPOA opponents have been cherry picking an IMF report to claim Trump’s ‘maximum pressure’ campaign worked.
It’s easy to distract Washington reporters from the realities of high stakes diplomacy.
The sabotage of the Natanz facility has not only failed to derail the Vienna talks but has, in fact, provided additional cause to sustain diplomacy.
A letter to the president says he should ‘follow through on his call for urgently-needed humanitarian relief to Iran.’
‘At the end, we might face Iranians who decide to retaliate,’ a former aide to Bibi Netanyahu said recently.
Nearly 300 Iranian artists, authors, and academics urged their government to stay on course for JCPOA reimplementation.
A prominent figure in Iran’s pro-reform camp recently criticized an adviser to the Supreme Leader for being duped on the JCPOA.