As the IAEA hardens its stance on Iran, hawks will clamor for further confrontation
With the Trump administration’s ‘maximum pressure’ campaign failing, its next step is to compel the reimposition of UN-mandated sanctions.
With the Trump administration’s ‘maximum pressure’ campaign failing, its next step is to compel the reimposition of UN-mandated sanctions.
A power sharing agreement between the Taliban and the Afghan government is going to be extremely difficult and the available evidence indicates that the violence and tension will not end any time soon.
A revival of Iran’s vibrant political scene will require the emergence of new faces with a new discourse.
The U.S. often evokes Iranian women’s struggles to justify coercive measures against Tehran. But evidence shows that U.S. policies help holding women back.
Will those who care about a free and democratic Iran be able to work together, instead of undermining each other as they did in 1979?
Whether it is coronavirus or any other national crisis, Washington will not miss its chance to play politics with Tehran.
The response to the new coronavirus so far isn’t exactly inspiring confidence in how we’d handle much greater global threats.
United Against a Nuclear Iran is naming and shaming pharmaceutical companies despite having special licenses to sell medicine to Iran.
There are a handful of European countries that could revitalize the moribund diplomatic efforts with Iran.
As the power of Iran’s unelected establishment grows, the prospects of diplomacy dwindle.
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.
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.
Conservatives won big in Iran’s parliamentary elections last week. The European Union needs to engage with it.
Since the Qassem Soleimani assassination, Washington and Tehran have intensified their efforts to try to outmaneuver each other for influence in Iraq.
The designation gives the Trump administration another justification for its “maximum pressure” campaign.
If Donald Trump is reelected, it’s likely a hardliner akin to former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will become president of Iran in 2021.
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.