Rome

April 21, 2025 | Janatan Sayeh, Behnam Ben Taleblu

Maximum Pressure on Tehran Regime in Motion as Trump Builds Negotiating Leverage

Sanctions don’t impede negotiations; they help set the terms. The Treasury Department sanctioned the China-based Shandong Shengxing Chemical Co. oil refinery on April 16 for purchasing some $800 million...

April 19, 2025 | Reuel Marc Gerecht, Ray Takeyh

The Iranian Negotiating Tactic the Trump Administration Doesn’t Get

Sanctions and ‘maximum pressure’ have never made the clerical regime abandon its nuclear ambitions.

April 19, 2025 | |

U.S. and Iran Hold Second Round of Nuclear Talks in Rome

Second Round Held: A second round of negotiations between the United States and Iran over the future of Tehran’s nuclear program took place in Rome on April 19. A four-hour long...

April 18, 2025 | |

‘We Don’t Have Much Time’: IAEA Chief Issues Warning Ahead of Nuclear Talks Between Iran and United States

Grossi’s Warning: The head of the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog warned on April17 that talks between the United States and Iran had reached “a very crucial stage.” Rafael...

April 17, 2025 | |

‘Countless Overt and Covert Operations’: Israel Touts Record Against Iran Nuclear Program as U.S. Deliberates on Military Strike

Israel Cites Past Action Against Iran Nuclear Program: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office highlighted on April 17 Israel’s efforts to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear...

February 21, 2025 | Natalie Ecanow, Janatan Sayeh

U.S. Must Pressure Qatar Not to Release Frozen Iranian Oil Revenues

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei thrust a long-simmering hostage controversy into the headlines on February 19.

September 20, 2024 | Ben Cohen |

Israel alone, Israel unbowed

French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy captures the essence of the Jewish people—and their innate and intense love for a tiny strip of land—in his latest book, in which he deconstructs the significance of Oct. 7.

July 29, 2024 | |

Israel Open to Gaza Truce Despite Lebanon Tension

Israel will pursue negotiations over sticking points in a Gaza truce proposal, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said on July 28. The announcement came as Netanyahu...

July 28, 2024 | Seth J. Frantzman |

Israel weighs response after Hezbollah rocket kills 12 young civilians

Israel’s security cabinet met on July 28 to weigh a response to a Hezbollah rocket that killed twelve children and teenagers on July 27 in the Golan town of Majdal Shams. The death toll is...

September 8, 2023 | Elaine K. Dezenski |

Italy is about to say to Beijing, ‘Hit the road, Xi’

Rome's anticipated departure from the Belt and Road Initiative likely marks the end of the project’s grand European aspirations, Elaine Dezenski writes.

March 9, 2023 | |

Terrorist Wounds Three in Tel Aviv Shooting

Latest Developments A gunman wounded three people, one critically, in central Tel Aviv on Thursday before police shot him dead. The assailant was reportedly 23-year-old Mutaz Al Khuwaja, the son of a Hamas...

January 28, 2022 | Craig Singleton |

Xi Jinping Is Watching His Back

His rhetoric has taken a paranoid turn—and holing himself up in Beijing hasn’t helped.

January 17, 2022 | Behnam Ben Taleblu |

Biden’s Misguided Blame Game on Iran

After a year in office, the president now owns the policy impasse.

December 3, 2021 | David Adesnik |

Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: November

August 18, 2021 | Clifford D. May |

President Biden had options

He chose the worst of them

June 29, 2021 | David Adesnik |

Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: Late June

June 14, 2021 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Samuel Hodgson, Austin Blair

Behind the Black Bloc

An Overview of Militant Anarchism and Anti-Fascism

January 14, 2021 | Orde Kittrie |

International Law

December 15, 2020 | Bradley Bowman, Maj. Amoreena York

Avoiding a Self-Inflicted Wound in the Sinai

October 15, 2020 | Bradley Bowman |

Washington Should Avoid a Self-Inflicted Wound in the Sinai

Withdrawing from the Multinational Force and Observers might be penny-wise, but would certainly be pound-foolish.