Faced by the human and economic ravages of COVID-19 and enduring—if precarious—stalemates in myriad conflict zones, including the Gulf, Yemen, Syria, and Libya, the region’s leaders are likely to keep well back from the brink.
The fiasco Trump created by withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal has now spilled over into Iran’s compliance with the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
This new round of sanctions is targeted at anyone doing business with Bashar al-Assad, including Lebanon, a country that’s already dealing with economic crisis of its own.
The E3 should urge a resolution to the Iranian nuclear issue that takes note of the facts and provides context to current events.
The United States is plunging further into its self-defeating foreign policy with new “maximum pressure” sanctions on Syria and anyone doing business with it.
On Twitter, where hundreds of Iranian accounts have been rooting for #Calexit lately, one user wrote, “Dear people of California: our country (Iran) wants your independence, and we are ready to help you in any way we can.”
The Trump administration recently blocked Iran form getting an IMF loan amid the COVID-19 crisis and it’s likely to do it again because of Hezbollah’s role in Lebanon’s government
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.”
You’re not wrong if you’re thinking that Trump’s handling of the protests across the country in the wake of George Floyd’s murder seems very familiar.
A couple of think tank hawks are bummed that regime change isn’t cool anymore.
