Following secret negotiations pursued with unusual intensity by Washington and Tehran, the two sides signed a nuclear agreement under the supervision of the UN Security Council, Germany, and the European Union in 2015. The agreement was also legally...
Elections in Iran often catch outsiders, and perhaps equally as often insiders, by surprise. From Mohammad Khatami’s shock win in 1997, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s unexpected sweep in 2005, and Hassan Rouhani’s 2013 marginal victory, elections have...
On Friday, the United States reached a turning point in its relations with Iran. U.S. President Donald Trump forcefully denounced the Islamic Republic in a highly confrontational speech, threatening to upend the nuclear deal unless Congress amends it to...
In 2006, in the midst of a fierce war between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice famously stated that the world was witnessing the “birth pangs of a new Middle East.” She was right—but not in...
The assassination significantly increases the likelihood that Iran will try to escape from the nuclear penalty box, thus making war more likely than not.
