Iran’s political shake-up and Ebrahim Raisi as president
The shift to the far right in Iran does not appear to have gone too far for the JCPOA to remain on the table.
The shift to the far right in Iran does not appear to have gone too far for the JCPOA to remain on the table.
Ebrahim Raisi promised to create jobs, but it may take more than simply rejoining the JCPOA to do it.
There will likely be a return to a much more historically normal state of global affairs in which multiple players are engaged.
Rejoining the JCPOA was a comparatively straightforward task which is taking too much time and effort to complete.
While he warned about the military industrial complex, he was less restrained when it came to covert interventions, some which reverberate today.
Add Turkey to the mix and see how this is building to become the next step in a strategic security axis against Iran.
Afghanistan could emerge as a venue for Middle Eastern rivalries involving not only Saudi Arabia and Iran, but also Turkey and Qatar.
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With the lowest turnout in its history, the Islamic Republic is moving further away from any sense of democracy.
The author happens to advise Biden-linked consulting firm WestExec, whose client makes the weapons in question.
The new Iranian administration may agree on a revised JCPOA with the U.S. But if the economic benefits are paltry, political support will drain away.
Officials have announced an ‘end’ to the combat mission, but this appears to be a shift in definitions rather than a real withdrawal.
Arguments against the JCPOA only become comprehensible only when one understands that nuclear nonproliferation is not their goal.
The E3’s failure to stand up to Trump was compounded by a series of miscalculations in the six months since Biden took office.
Heavily redacted classified DOJ memo shows the legal contortions used to justify the 2020 assassination.
New report finds that Iran is not ‘on the march,’ but among multiple powers, some US-backed, destabilizing the region.
Sanctions like those imposed on Cuba fail to achieve their stated policy objectives and create misery for millions of innocent people.
Will the departure of some 3,000 American troops from Afghanistan be a harbinger of a more fundamental realignment of U.S. Middle East security policy?
If Congress wants to vote on a new war against Iran, it should summon the political courage to do so.
Michele Flournoy claims she was ‘unaware’ her hosts are part of a well-known former terrorist organization.
The election of a hardliner could augur a more security-oriented approach by Tehran toward Armenia and Azerbaijan.