Q&A: Ilhan Omar looks forward to a more productive US foreign policy
The Minnesota Democrat slams ‘maximum pressure’ and reflects on her own experience seeking refuge in the United States.
The Minnesota Democrat slams ‘maximum pressure’ and reflects on her own experience seeking refuge in the United States.
If the goal of the assassination was to derail the JCPOA, it may have failed miserably.
Opponents of diplomacy will be pushing for Biden to squeeze more out of Iran before returning to the deal; it won’t work.
After years of Trump-imposed crushing sanctions, Iranian officials have floated demands for compensation, but will that be a deal breaker?
The wrong message will shut the diplomatic window even before Inauguration Day. Here are four steps toward keeping it open.
As the Trump administration wanes, regime change fanatics are throwing everything they can at Iran trying to prevent Biden from returning to the nuclear deal.
With the Trump administration escalating tensions once again with its snapback scheme, it’s worth trying to figure out just what Tehran wants.
Seeing a deal fall apart despite having fully abided by it makes it almost impossible in Iran’s domestic scene to make the case for any renewed engagement.
Rouhani knows very well that if his government continues to unilaterally implement the nuclear deal, he will come under more attacks from his political opponents and hardliners.
The fiasco Trump created by withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal has now spilled over into Iran’s compliance with the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
The E3 should urge a resolution to the Iranian nuclear issue that takes note of the facts and provides context to current events.
Those who predicted Iran would turn toward hardliners if the U.S. withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal have so far been proven to be correct.
Iran continues to pull back on some of its obligations in response to Trump unilaterally reimposing crushing sanctions, but the JCPOA is still alive.
“The fundamental problem with U.S. policy toward Iran has been a ridiculous inflation of Iran’s importance to the United States.”
Donald Trump, Mike Pompeo, and their allies have handed Iran grounds to argue that it needs to enrich uranium to higher levels than are allowed under the JCPOA.
A close look at the strategic landscape suggests that lifting or extending the arms embargo will have a limited security impact.
Congress should continually remind Trump that the American people don’t want a war with Iran.
Donald Trump withdrew from the multilateral nuclear deal with Iran, known as the JCPOA, in May 2018, and reinstated sanctions against the country.
Two years ago, on May 8, 2018, the Trump administration withdrew unilaterally from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, commonly called the Iran nuclear deal, and then imposed “maximum pressure” sanctions on Iran.
U.S. primacy increasingly no longer reflects the realities in a region where traditional American partners no longer concern themselves with finding common cause with Washington.
Regime change proponents are trying to use an expiring arms embargo to prevent the next president from reentering the Iran nuclear deal.