Robert Malley

September 23, 2022 |

U.S. May Allow Payment to Iran for Hostages

The Biden administration may be preparing to issue a national security waiver authorizing the transfer of $7 billion to Iran from South Korean-based accounts subject to U.S. terrorism sanctions. The transfer...

September 12, 2022 | Matthew Zweig, Gabriel Noronha

Biden may be plotting to keep Congress out of the Iran nuclear deal

Excerpt Negotiators from Iran, the United States and the European Union have once again nearly concluded indirect talks over the “final text” of a nuclear deal. Like the 2015 deal formally known as...

September 6, 2022 | Jacob Nagel |

Deal or No Deal, Israel Must Restore a Credible Military Threat

The Iranian regime and the US are exchanging drafts of what is being described again as a “take it or leave it, last chance [nuclear] deal.” Both sides will not admit publicly to having compromised,...

August 18, 2022 | Jacob Nagel, Jonathan Schanzer

Another Iran Deal? Looking Back and Looking Ahead

August 10, 2022 | Richard Goldberg |

Five Minutes from Disaster

The U.S. is offering Iran the deal of the millennium, and yet the Islamic Republic—and Russia—want more concessions.

July 26, 2022 | Matthew Zweig |

How Congress Can Keep Biden From Caving to Iran’s Demands

The administration has said it will not remove the IRGC’s terrorist designation, but it is likely looking for ways to ease the burden on Iran.

July 21, 2022 | Jacob Nagel, Mark Dubowitz

Will new nuclear deal render Israel’s capabilities hollow?

Tehran wants to keep up the negotiations facade until such time as the IAEA convenes, but Iran's leaders must be made to understand that the era of impervious immunity is over. When dealing with Hamas in Gaza, the Israeli response to any provocation must be disproportionate.

July 1, 2022 | Jacob Nagel |

Iran’s nuclear aspirations cannot be legitimized

Senior Israeli officials who endorse a nuclear deal with Iran are undermining Israel's interests. Without an agreement, Iran's efforts to become a nuclear threshold state will be from a position of weakness, while Israel and the US will have legitimacy, urgency, and targets with which to inflict critical harm.

June 2, 2022 | David Adesnik, John Hardie

Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: June

May 31, 2022 | Jacob Nagel, Richard Goldberg

Don’t Let Iran Humiliate the IAEA Again

New reporting and an IAEA assessment reveal that Iran is in violation of both the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and the JCPOA.

May 13, 2022 | Jacob Nagel |

Ahead of Biden’s expected visit to Israel

Israel must receive a clear promise that it will preserve its full freedom of action, in all dimensions.

May 1, 2022 | Richard Goldberg |

Foil the Financiers of Iran’s Terrorism

The Biden administration believes Tehran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is a terrorist organization. So why lift sanctions on banks that help fund it?

April 13, 2022 | Jonathan Schanzer |

‘Caught Between a Hammer and an Anvil’

Israel’s in a difficult position when it comes to the war in Ukraine

March 17, 2022 | Mark Dubowitz, Jonathan Schanzer

Biden throws Putin a nuclear lifeline

The Russian war of aggression in Ukraine has significantly encumbered the Biden administration’s drive to reach a renewed Iran nuclear deal. Seeing an opportunity to build leverage against the United...

March 16, 2022 | Tony Badran |

Team Biden Runs the Syria Playbook on Ukraine

The administration’s horror over Putin’s war is not merely performative, but functional—in the service of realigning with Iran

March 14, 2022 | Jacob Nagel, Meir Ben-Shabbat

A chance for a ‘longer and stronger’ deal, rather than a contract of capitulation

The halt to the Vienna nuclear talks due to Russia's demand that sanctions on it exclude trade with Iran, have led to a watershed moment to expose the dangers of the deal.

February 18, 2022 | Jacob Nagel |

West is on verge of signing ‘surrender pact’ with Iran

The Europeans are again kowtowing to American pressure while the Russians and Chinese are wringing their hands gleefully.

February 7, 2022 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Iran ‘sham’ trial of California resident sparks allegations that world powers have abandoned him

Iranian regime 'scapegoating an innocent man' over bombing allegations, Jamshid Sharmahd's daughter says

February 1, 2022 | David Adesnik, John Hardie

Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: February

January 28, 2022 | Jacob Nagel, Mark Dubowitz

Iran Nuclear Talks in Vienna Won’t Result in a Better Deal

The nuclear negotiations in Vienna continue. The Iranians are setting the tone and pace while the Americans struggle to keep alive the possibility of a deal. The Israelis—for whom these talks will have...