Katherine Bauer, Daniel L. Glaser, and Suzanne Maloney
Watch a conversation with former Treasury and State Department officials on how the Trump administration should go about renewing financial pressure on Iran's oil industry and other sectors.
Tehran will likely resort to measured countermoves in the nuclear domain at first, but successful U.S. pressure could spur it to challenge JCPOA limits, take action in non-nuclear domains, or push back against U.S. and allied forces.
Katherine Bauer, Soner Cagaptay, Patrick Clawson, Michael Eisenstadt, James F. Jeffrey, Barbara A. Leaf, Matthew Levitt, Dennis Ross, and Robert Satloff
In this special report, a working group of Washington Institute fellows outlines an alternative approach to complete U.S. troop withdrawal from Syria.
The Israeli revelations make the argument for sticking with the nuclear accord much more difficult to sustain.
Michael Herzog and Ghaith al-Omari
Michael Herzog and Ghaith al-Omari offer a new paradigm for addressing the explosive state of affairs in Gaza, a situation that if left unchecked, risks deterioration into yet another Israel-Hamas war.
To preserve Libyan unity, the United States should threaten to block any oil shipments not authorized by the country's internationally recognized government.
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The regime’s most vulnerable point is its precarious banking system, whose persistent mismanagement, capital shortfalls, and lack of transparency have already sparked public protests.
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Pending policy decisions on reimposing sanctions will give Washington opportunities to calibrate its arsenal of measures against illicit Iranian financial activity.
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Numerous individual aircraft and front companies were added to the Treasury sanctions list, but naming even more of them could boost U.S. efforts to pressure Iran and close the IRGC’s Syrian air bridge.
Policy Forum
Barbara A. Leaf and Ali Shihabi
Can Washington turn its Arab partners' favorable rhetoric on the administration's new Iran policy into concrete actions to curb Tehran's regional adventurism? Join us for an expert conversation and live webcast on Tuesday, June 5.
