ایران

پیروزی جو بایدن در انتخابات آمریکا ممکن است نویدبخش تدبیری برای کاهش تنش با ایران باشد، اما این امر بعید است رهبر این کشور را به وجد آورد. آیت‌الله خامنه‌ای در واقع میان نیات دموکرات‌ها و جمهوری‌خواهان فرقی نمی‌گذارد –هر چه نباشد، او با اوباما بر سر یک معامله هسته‌ای توافق کرد و دید که پرزیدنت ترامپ آن را دور انداخت و تحریم‌هایی نفس‌گیر بر ایران وضع کرد و نامدارترین سردار این کشور را کشت.

Tehran will continue maneuvering to secure a favorable new nuclear deal with the Biden administration, likely using a combination of bluffs and escalation.

In addition to prohibiting any negotiations over Iran’s military power or regional ambitions, the legislation would oblige the government to work toward evicting the United States from the Middle East and destroying Israel within twenty years.

The former Prime Minister discusses the challenges and opportunities facing the Biden administration twenty years after 9/11 and a decade after the Arab Spring.

Libya, Iraq, and the Strait of Hormuz provide three test cases where greater assertiveness and transatlantic cooperation could go hand in hand, but only if European countries receive genuine U.S. support to step up their operational efforts and diplomatic engagement.

Three veteran policy practitioners examine the challenges that the Biden administration will face as it considers whether and how to reenter the Iran nuclear agreement.

One of the fruits of Arab-Israeli normalization should be more robust U.S.-led missile defense collaboration between states that face the greatest threat from Iran.

No sanctions relief should be granted without nuclear concessions, and a “less for less” deal may be the best way of reaching a viable compromise in the near term.

For two decades and running, diplomatic efforts have noticeably omitted the regional states most directly in the line of Tehran’s fire, including Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE.