Iran Among the Ruins - Vali Nasr
Over the last seven years, social upheavals and civil wars have torn apart the political order that had defined the Middle East ever since World War I. Once solid autocracies have fallen by the wayside, their state institutions battered and broken, and their national borders compromised. Syria and Yemen have descended into bloody civil wars worsened by foreign military interventions. ...
Who's behind the Trump administration's foreign policy, and where will it lead? - Mansour Farhang
On this edition of Your Call, we’ll talk about US foreign policy under the Trump administration. The administration has been escalating tensions with Iran, the European Union, and China. Who is really making US foreign policy decisions, and what will the fallout of the United States' aggressive rhetoric be? ...
The High-Stakes Confrontation Between Trump and Khamenei
Karim Sadjadpour
President Donald Trump doesn’t want conflict. Ayatollah Khamenei doesn’t want economic collapse. Yet that is where things are headed. ...
The Art of a New Iran Deal - Sanam Vakil
A year ago, U.S. President Donald Trump withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal on the grounds that he wanted a bigger, better agreement. ...
Latest U.S. Pressure Has Iran Over a Barrel - Ray Takeyh
Iran appears increasingly boxed in by intensifying U.S. sanctions, the latest of which will effectively cut it off from its main oil customers. ...
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