How America Lost Its Leverage on Iran
Ten years ago, two senators, one Republican and one Democrat, joined together to force America to sanction Iran. In the years since, the leverage they built has dissipated. Why?
Vienna
Iran nuclear talks are restarting, but they’re pointless: Biden needs a bipartisan strategy
President Joe Biden’s Iran policy is failing, and the indirect negotiations restarting in Vienna Nov. 29 won’t yield a win. Biden assumed that goodwill gestures and proactive concessions would bring...
Op-eds
Malley should go back to the basics
Whatever policy the US special envoy is conducting on Iran does not qualify as diplomacy, but rather as ideology.
Op-eds
A Sign That Iran Is Still Pursuing Nukes
Iranian media have reported on the identity of the new head of the Islamic Republic’s nuclear research institute.
Op-eds
The Future Of Iran-EU Trade Is Not Bright
Enrique Mora, the EU envoy coordinating the Iran nuclear talks traveled to Tehran recently in an attempt to convince the regime to return to the Vienna process. The EU invested considerable political and...
Op-eds
It’s Decision Time on Iran
The Islamic Republic is advancing both the enrichment and weaponization tracks needed to build a bomb.
Op-eds
Remember Lepanto
A great battle in a war not yet ended
Op-eds
Tehran Demands Access to $10 Billion of Frozen Iranian Assets as Reward for Negotiating
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said on Saturday that Washington should unfreeze $10 billion of Iranian assets as a goodwill gesture before Tehran resumes negotiations over compliance with...
Policy Briefs
Congress Joins European Allies in Targeting Erdogan’s Far-Right Partners
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill on September 23 that includes an amendment requiring the secretary of state to submit a report assessing whether Turkey’s Grey Wolves — a far-right militant...
Policy Briefs
Goodbye To All That
Biden may usher in a new era in which we won’t really have an Iran policy at all.
Op-eds
The IAEA’s Iran NPT Safeguards Report – September 2021
Excerpt “The Director General remains deeply concerned that nuclear material has been present at undeclared locations in Iran and that the current locations of this nuclear material are not known to the...
Op-eds
Biden Must Censure Iran for Its Nuclear Misconduct
Ahead of the board’s next meeting, Biden should put forward a strong IAEA resolution that censures Iran and demands immediate compliance with the IAEA’s investigation, among other things.
Op-eds
Biden Needs an Effective—and Coercive— Iran Strategy
The Biden administration seems to be on the wrong track. No strategy against the Islamic Republic of Iran can be effective without sustained coercive pressure. Going back in time, the situation is reminiscent...
Op-eds
EU Actions Show Iran Will Pay No Price for Terror
The European Union has made its position on Iran abundantly clear. The attendance of senior EU official Enrique Mora at the inauguration of Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi demonstrated that Brussels will...
Op-eds
Bennett should not enter talks about compensation if Biden returns to JCPOA
Iran is the first and only priority for Israel. Never has it been more important for Israel to clarify its positions and the need for the United States to support them.
Op-eds
How Biden can escape the self-created nuclear impasse
Despite the Biden administration’s efforts to finalize an agreement before the inauguration of Ebrahim Raisi as Iran’s new president, Tehran has refused to return to the 2015 nuclear deal, also known...
Op-eds
Controversial German politician to head UN agency accused of helping Iran with tech linked to nuclear program
Gerd Müller prepares to outline his plans for UNIDO during the final week of August
Op-eds
Iranian intelligence plot reaches US soil — and should complicate negotiations
Excerpt In mid-July, the Department of Justice charged that the Islamic Republic of Iran directed four intelligence operatives to kidnap Masih Alinejad, an Iranian-American journalist, from her home...
Op-eds
Biden Team Discovers Merit of Trump’s Iran Approach
The Biden administration and its advocates have never hidden their contempt for Trump’s policy of maximum pressure on Iran. According to Robert Malley, the lead U.S. negotiator at nuclear talks in Vienna,...
Op-eds
Hangman-in-chief
Iranian presidential elections have rarely mattered. Both the past victory of the so-called reformists and now the restoration of a tailor made presidency to consolidate the regime, portray something similar...