Memorandum of understanding

8 Questions Facing the United Nations at UNGA 81

The United Nations was formed “to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war.” Yet more armed conflicts rage worldwide today than at any point since the world body’s formation at the end...

Security Challenges in the Western Balkans

Briefing delivered to the Counter-Kleptocracy Caucus

Kurdistan Region concerned over US support amid Iran’s continued attacks

On August 29, the BBC reported that the US was planning to end military support to the Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) Peshmerga military force. The report comes as the US is withdrawing forces...

Tehran’s Negotiators Are Not a Counterweight to the IRGC

Whatever separates Tehran’s senior leadership, a strategy of escalation to extract concessions from Washington unites them. President Donald Trump confirmed on August 17 that his administration has...

Tehran’s reshuffle leaves no pragmatic opening

upreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei’s latest appointments to Iran’s top security and paramilitary institutions are not routine personnel changes but a reflection of his priorities for tighter control over...

Iran Strikes Jordan To Probe Washington’s Escalation Limits

Despite a lull in fighting between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran, Tehran broke with its established pattern of portraying direct missile attacks against U.S. forces as retaliation. On...

The Houthis Are Hitting Saudi Arabia’s Energy Pipeline — and Here’s Why That Matters

Saudi Arabia has weathered Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz by relying on its east-west pipeline to send crude from the kingdom’s energy-rich eastern province to the Red Sea terminal...

Why Hasn’t Washington Pressed Qatar To Extradite Terrorists?

Qatar needs to cooperate with U.S. extradition efforts.

Jordan Should Stop Hedging and Stand Firm Against Iran

Iranian attacks on neighboring countries, relaunched after the collapse of the Memorandum of Understanding between Tehran and Washington, have now claimed the lives of two U.S. troops in Jordan and possibly...

Iran is rebuilding its nuclear program underground. Will Trump take it out?

“We’re going to take out Pickaxe Mountain. Tell the Iranians to be ready,” President Donald Trump declared Monday on Hugh Hewitt’s radio show. The regime in Tehran never learns,...

Iran’s Renewed Aggression Should Spur U.S. To Revive Maximum Pressure Campaign

Iran’s repeated attacks on commercial shipping may ultimately force the United States to take a more aggressive posture by reviving its maximum pressure campaign against the Tehran regime. Following...

What would Joe Biden do?

Vis-à-vis Moscow and Tehran, Trump should do the opposite

Ceasefire Collapse Restores U.S. Leverage as Sanctions, Strikes Weaken Iran’s Hand

The memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the United States and Iran was meant to secure a 60-day ceasefire. Instead, the Islamic Republic has repeatedly attacked commercial vessels operating in...

The Third World Wants You – Not In a Good Way

Pick To Run Iran’s Judiciary Shows Repression Will Live on Long After Ali Khamenei’s Death

If Iranians were hoping for a softening of the Islamic Republic’s iron rule, new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has wasted no time in disillusioning them. He has appointed Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejei...

Why Iran Sanctions Relief Wouldn’t Have Stopped Iran

As the United States and Iran trade blows again, it’s important to remember that sanctions relief would have only allowed the Islamic Republic to finance its war machine.

The time for talk is over — Trump needs to get tough with Iran

Just three weeks after it was signed, the Memorandum of Understanding between the United States and Iran is on life support. Tehran’s promise to keep the Strait of Hormuz open for international...

Iran Continues Work at Key Nuclear Site, Violating U.S.-Iran Agreement

New analysis of satellite imagery indicates that Iran is continuing construction at the deeply buried nuclear facility known as Pickaxe Mountain, in violation of the U.S.-Iran Memorandum of Understanding...

CENTCOM strikes Iran as Tehran condemns US sanctions waiver revocation

United States Central Command (CENTCOM) announced on July 7 that it had launched an attack wave on targets in Iran “to impose heavy costs” in response to the Islamic Republic’s strikes...

Why Hasn’t the Trump Administration Complied with the Law on Reporting Iran Agreements to Congress?

Abstract This article argues that the Trump Administration’s Memorandum of Understanding with Iran is subject to the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act (INARA) but the administration has not complied...