Middle East Update: Tit-for-tat attack after US launches airstrikes in Syria This comes within days of failed attempts by lawmakers to strip the White House of blanket authorities and to bring American troops home.Kelley Beaucar VlahosMarch 24, 2023
Middle East US Military says it shot down an Iranian drone in Iraq CENTCOM appears to be in the middle of IRGC attacks against Kurdish groups blamed for fomenting protests. We ask again, what are we doing there?Kelley Beaucar VlahosSeptember 29, 2022
Middle East The IRGC terror designation is a de-facto Iranian travel ban Regular Iranians are finding it impossible to visit and work in the US due to Trump's eleventh hour poison pill for JCPOA renewal.Reza MazaheriMay 12, 2022
Middle East European officials: Stop dawdling and pass the JCPOA already Absent renewal, the two parties risk 'entering into a state of corrosive stalemate' and a potential crisis in the Middle East. Jim LobeApril 27, 2022
Middle East Biden shouldn't fall for the trap Trump laid to block Iran deal re-entry There are creative ways to get back into the JCPOA and handle removing Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps from the foreign terrorist list. Ellie GeranmayehApril 15, 2022
Middle East Without the Iran nuclear deal, war is on the horizon US and Iranian officials appear fixated on the costs of JCPOA re-entry, but they'll pay a far higher price if they fail to get an agreement. Trita ParsiMarch 31, 2022