Bloomberg News
Section 232 National Security Investigation of Imports of Polysilicon and Its Derivatives
Public Comments
Putin Spokesman Confirms Russian Offer to Mediate Between U.S. and Iran Over Iranian Nuclear Program
‘U.S. and Iran Should Solve All Problems Through Negotiations’: A top spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime confirmed on March 4 that Moscow was willing...
Flash Briefs
‘Not Written in Stone’: Israel Set to Extend Lebanon Truce Deadline
LAF Takeover Incomplete: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on January 24 said that the IDF withdrawal from southern Lebanon is not likely to be completed in full by the...
Flash Briefs
Israel Offers to Allow Sinwar Safe Passage Out of Gaza to Free Hostages
Israeli ceasefire negotiators offered Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar safe passage out of the Gaza Strip in exchange for the release of all of Israel’s hostages, Israeli hostage envoy...
Flash Briefs
U.S., Israeli, and Palestinian Officials Met to Discuss Control of Rafah Crossing
Latest Developments Officials from the United States, Israel, and the Palestinian Authority (PA) held a secret meeting in Tel Aviv last week to discuss reopening the Rafah crossing between Egypt and...
Flash Briefs
How the U.S. Can Slash Tehran’s Oil Revenue
Tehran exported 1.4 million barrels per day of crude oil last month, of which 74 percent went to China. The Biden administration has deliberately relaxed the enforcement of oil sanctions since taking office,...
Policy Briefs
Biden must take Iran threat seriously — and wage economic war
Iran-backed militias are shooting at American troops in Iraq and Syria and getting away with it. On Monday morning, the militias targeted US bases with attack drones for the third time in a week. The...
Op-eds
The Monetary Value of Relaxed Oil Sanctions Enforcement by the Biden Administration
“U.S. officials privately acknowledge they’ve gradually relaxed some enforcement of sanctions on Iranian oil sales,” Bloomberg News revealed last month. The dollar value of this sanctions relief...
Insights
U.S. Denies Significant Progress in Saudi-Israel Normalization
The Biden administration on August 9 denied reports that the United States and Saudi Arabia had agreed to a framework that would see the Arab kingdom normalize relations with Israel. National Security...
Flash Briefs
The United States and Saudi Arabia: A Possible Path Forward
Memos
Russia Is Fueling China’s Nuclear Weapons Expansion
A senior Department of Defense official on Wednesday confirmed media reports that Rosatom, Russia’s state-owned nuclear energy company, provided China with nuclear fuel for a key reactor that will enable...
Policy Briefs
Iran Enriching Uranium to Near Weapons-Grade
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has detected Iran’s enrichment of uranium to 84-percent purity at the Fordow underground facility, Bloomberg News reported on Sunday....
Flash Briefs
International Civil Aviation Organization
Iran is already winning
The ayatollahs are smiling
Op-eds
Lebanon
Russia
Energy
Saudi Arabia
Turkey’s Frantic Gold Rush Points to a Financial Crisis Ahead
As ordinary citizens seek to preserve their wealth, President Recep Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party is finding new ways to take advantage of the gold rush.