The EU should stop coddling Middle Eastern dictators
Two measures condemning human rights abuses in Iran and Egypt highlight a glaring double standard.
Two measures condemning human rights abuses in Iran and Egypt highlight a glaring double standard.
Scores of Iranian scientists and top officials have been killed since 2007 and Washington probably knows more than it says.
For now, Erdogan has strengthened his position in a rejiggering of the balance of power in the Caucasus between not only Russia and Turkey, but also Iran.
The Minnesota Democrat slams ‘maximum pressure’ and reflects on her own experience seeking refuge in the United States.
The Turkish president recited a poem at a recent victory celebration in Azerbaijan that triggered the Iranians.
Given a survey of Arab and Iranian opinion, it seems that the incoming Biden administration may be on the right track.
Democrats organized a letter to Joe Biden ‘strongly endorsing’ his pledge to rejoin the 2015 accord that blocked Iran’s pathways to a nuclear weapon.
Punishing Iran regardless of its behavior does not create leverage; it destroys it.
Germany’s foreign minister recently proposed conditions that JCPOA opponents have pushed for years.
We’re bombarded with concern about Iranian state-sponsored terrorism, but why the silence when our friends do it?
The Netanyahu government’s primary goal is to keep Iran forever ostracized, sanctioned, and loathed.
There is a covert war being waged by the U.S. and Israel, but its only accomplishment so far is the alienation of regular Iranians.
A prominent NYT journalist got called out for sloppy reporting on Iran’s nuclear program; but the offenses go far beyond the paper of record.
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.