Why Iran’s next hardline president should thank Donald Trump
Maximum pressure has undermined centrists and reformers, setting up a rigged election with an increasingly certain outcome.
Maximum pressure has undermined centrists and reformers, setting up a rigged election with an increasingly certain outcome.
Before they were prime minister, two Israelis were leaders of violent political movements that killed innocent people.
Israel’s longest serving prime minister beat the Iran war drums for years and finally got the ear of an American president in Donald Trump.
The journalistic ‘voice of God’ is often used to defend interventionist policies or push our leaders to do something about, well, everything.
Offering no evidence, lawmakers are accusing Ariane Tabatabai of dual loyalty and demanding her security clearance be revoked.
Politico is hyping a ‘threat’ that may or may not be happening, but even if it was, there’s no need to hit the panic button.
A flurry of recent diplomacy suggests efforts underway to mend the rivalries that have fueled Arab wars over the past decade.
With reformists out of the picture, the contest will serve as a mere formality for hardliners.
Iran’s support for Palestinian militants is a two-edged sword, as they have their own political and strategic calculations.
Our partners in the region sense the United States is leaving and they need to take care of business themselves. It’s not rocket science.
Lawmaker uses climate hearing to question the envoy’s honesty about an alleged conversation regarding Israeli airstrikes in Syria.
JCPOA opponents have been cherry picking an IMF report to claim Trump’s ‘maximum pressure’ campaign worked.
America’s most urgent infrastructure vulnerability is largely invisible and unlikely to be fixed by Biden’s $2 trillion American Jobs Plan.
Proponents of diplomacy with Iran say the measure may have been meant to complicate the ongoing talks in Vienna.
The sabotage of the Natanz facility has not only failed to derail the Vienna talks but has, in fact, provided additional cause to sustain diplomacy.
Chatham House survey finds agreement that regional actors must bear responsibility for their neighborhood’s conflicts.
New talks between Saudi Arabia and Iran could advance regional and US interests, if spoilers are put at bay.
A letter to the president says he should ‘follow through on his call for urgently-needed humanitarian relief to Iran.’
A prominent figure in Iran’s pro-reform camp recently criticized an adviser to the Supreme Leader for being duped on the JCPOA.
This wouldn’t be the first time Tel Aviv tried to sabotage U.S-Tehran talks, and now the big prize: keeping the two from JCPOA renewal.
The real political work will have to be done in DC, not Vienna, thanks to the new terror embargoes slapped on by Trump.