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Raising the stakes for the nuclear negotiations is the only way to test if Tehran is serious.

The Obama administration should intervene in Riyadh's succession crisis if it wants a reliable partner on Iran.

The growing threat of Arab-Israeli war, the Iranian nuclear issue, and the potential for Palestinian political meltdown could make this year a precarious one for Israel.

An in-depth look at how the United States can use pressure and inducements to convince Iran's leaders that negotiating a nuclear deal is their best option.

Sanctions and U.S. military force carry risks, but Tehran with a bomb would wreak havoc on global markets.

The Washington Institute presented its 2021 Scholar-Statesman Award to Dennis Ross and Elliott Abrams.

Steven A. Cook’s The Struggle for Egypt, a chronicle of modern Egypt that culminates in the revolution that overthrew Hosni Mubarak, has been awarded the gold medal in The Washington Institute’s 2012 Book Prize competition. Cook, the Hasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on

The Iranian nuclear program and the Assad regime share a commonality: both aim to undermine Western interests in the Middle East. For this reason, as much as Ayatollah Ali Khamenei values the nuclear program as a pillar of the Islamic Republic's political identity, his pro-Assad stance has taken its own place in Iran's regional policy.

Nearly two years after the onset of the Arab Spring, four leaders have been toppled, a bloody civil war is raging in Syria with no end in sight, and the status quo in other Arab states is fragile. Where does all of this lead? In this paper, Michael Herzog assesses