Biden will contend with divergent Middle East preferences on Iran
The Middle East is experiencing a period of readjustment that will create both challenges and opportunities for the Biden administration.
The Middle East is experiencing a period of readjustment that will create both challenges and opportunities for the Biden administration.
Hundreds of experts have signed a letter supporting Rob Malley after Iran deal opponents try to torpedo his appointment.
With Biden determined to reenter the JCPOA, Israeli leaders are reportedly considering unilateral military action.
Without reform, the Iranian people won’t see big economic benefits from reviving the JCPOA.
The outgoing secretary of state spent his final days planting booby traps and ensuring his own political future.
Biden’s Secretary of State pick inherits a lot of trouble, but we want to make sure he has the right solutions.
Trump officials are doing all they can to prevent the incoming Biden team’s diplomacy with Iran — or worse.
In a letter to Biden, more than four dozen Iran observers say time to revive the JCPOA is limited.
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.
A coherent realist policy in the Middle East – and beyond – would bring greater benefits than costs. That said, there is a natural tendency among proponents to oversell those benefits and downplay the costs.
Seeing a deal fall apart despite having fully abided by it makes it almost impossible in Iran’s domestic scene to make the case for any renewed engagement.
Rouhani knows very well that if his government continues to unilaterally implement the nuclear deal, he will come under more attacks from his political opponents and hardliners.
“The fundamental problem with U.S. policy toward Iran has been a ridiculous inflation of Iran’s importance to the United States.”
The conventional arms trade is indeed a destabilizing factor in the Middle East, but a multilateral approach that does more than pressure one regional actor would be needed to address that problem effectively.
A close look at the strategic landscape suggests that lifting or extending the arms embargo will have a limited security impact.
Donald Trump withdrew from the multilateral nuclear deal with Iran, known as the JCPOA, in May 2018, and reinstated sanctions against the country.
Two years ago, on May 8, 2018, the Trump administration withdrew unilaterally from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, commonly called the Iran nuclear deal, and then imposed “maximum pressure” sanctions on Iran.