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Iran Nuclear Deal

Daily Comment

Freedom for Five Americans Doesn’t End Flash Points with Iran

The prisoner exchange will almost certainly not stop an Iranian tactic that has spanned more than four decades.
Our Columnists

Iran Moves Toward a One-Party State

The Supreme Leader is willing to risk the legitimacy of an election to consolidate monolithic hard-line control.
Our Columnists

Will Biden’s Iran Diplomacy Become a Shakespearean Tragedy?

In principle, the U.S. is again committed to inclusive international diplomacy. In practice, Trump so rattled the global order that the damage endures after he has gone.
News Desk

Trump’s Close-Call Diplomacy with Iran’s President

Emmanuel Macron intended to set up a three-way telephone conversation with Hassan Rouhani and President Trump. But, at the last moment, it fell apart.
News Desk

Iran’s Foreign Minister Was Invited to Meet Trump in the Oval Office

The invitation was extended just weeks before the Administration placed sanctions on Mohammad Javad Zarif for functioning “as a propaganda minister, not a foreign minister.”
News Desk

Iran Celebrates the Revolution’s Fortieth Anniversary—Twelve Blocks from the White House

With Iran reflecting on the success of its revolution, and with the U.S. clearly trying to influence the country’s future, the question at this landmark juncture is how the next decade plays out.
Daily Comment

Harold Koh’s Verdict on Donald Trump vs. International Law

According to a recent book by a Yale Law School professor, the President has failed in virtually every foreign-policy initiative in his first two years in office.
News Desk

Who Will Last Longer: Trump or Iran’s Theocrats?

News Desk

Trump Threatens a Showdown with Iran. But How?

The Political Scene Podcast

An Architect of the Iran Deal Sees Her Work Crumbling

Wendy Sherman, who led the U.S. negotiating team in the historic agreement with Iran, has cautionary words for those who are dismantling it.
Daily Comment

Why Netanyahu Really Wanted Trump to Scuttle the Iran Deal

The Political Scene Podcast

Can President Macron Outwit Trump?

Lauren Collins joins Dorothy Wickenden to discuss the attempts by the French President, Emmanuel Macron, to save the Iran nuclear deal, and what the French think about their President and ours.
News Desk

Trump Defies the World on Iran