The doves and hawks are here to stay: Time for the E3 to show bold leadership on Iran
The E3 should urge a resolution to the Iranian nuclear issue that takes note of the facts and provides context to current events.
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.
While the U.S. fiddles with bad faith on Iran, Europe has an opportunity to lead and provide a better path forward.
In order to pile more sanctions on Iran, the U.S. has to be part of the Iran nuclear deal. So now the Trump administration is pretending it never left.
Europe’s workaround U.S. secondary sanctions is finally operational but will it be enough?
U.S. sanctions have begun to shift Tehran’s nuclear calculus. Now, COVID-19 may have provided Tehran with the opportunity to make a dash for the bomb.
Crippling U.S. sanctions are severely impeding Iranian efforts to combat the coronavirus, compelling Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif to ask the United Nations for help.
The Trump administration will try to argue that it’s still part of the nuclear accord in attempt to trigger a mechanism that will ultimately kill it.
With the IAEA now raising concerns about Iran’s nuclear program, saving the JCPOA just got more difficult.
With the Trump administration’s ‘maximum pressure’ campaign failing, its next step is to compel the reimposition of UN-mandated sanctions.
United Against a Nuclear Iran is naming and shaming pharmaceutical companies despite having special licenses to sell medicine to Iran.
Hardliners will now have to share responsibility for Iran’s problems.