How the assassination of Iran’s top nuclear scientist can sabotage diplomacy & start a war
While it’s currently unclear who is responsible, Israel has the motive and an enabler in Washington.
While it’s currently unclear who is responsible, Israel has the motive and an enabler in Washington.
The Biden administration will need to work with Europe to get back to the nuclear deal and beyond.
Just because a course of action is strategically senseless doesn’t mean that Trump won’t do it.
The vastly widened breach between the United States and Iran means that a Biden administration will have little to gain from limiting its Iran policy to resuscitating the ailing JCPOA.
The role Foundation for the Defense of Democracies served as a messaging hub for a controversial taxpayer-funded project, has never been revealed until now.
US Iran envoy Elliott Abrams recently praised successes on getting Americans released, but the reality is that Trump officials only complicated the process.
With the Trump administration escalating tensions once again with its snapback scheme, it’s worth trying to figure out just what Tehran wants.
Whispers behind closed doors suggest Iran’s storied capacity to face down sanctions may finally have met its match in Covid-19.
The complicated nature of the geopolitics of the region has made it more difficult for Iran to clearly define its policy towards the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
In reality, the accord does not seem to have the potential to revolutionize the path of China-Iran relations, which has been quite consistent since 1979.
A series of violent attacks, involving explosions and fires, has been hitting Iran. The incidents have been too frequent and intense to be random accidents. They are part of an organized effort.
A real change in U.S.-Saudi and U.S.-Iranian relations, as well as in the U.S.’s overall position in the Middle East, will not be achieved with a modest course correction.