iran nuclear

Why any new agreement would likely be worse than resuscitating the existing deal.

This week’s escalation of tensions by Tehran looks like blackmail to force Biden to abandon sanctions—and give up leverage over the regime.

In 2020, the Trump administration sought to bury the Iran nuclear deal for good. Biden is poised to breathe new life into the pact. 

Insisting that Iran must abandon its missile program could fall into the hardliners’ trap and make a new agreement impossible.

Moving quickly to resurrect the JCPOA, as Biden seems set to do, would start his presidency with a hugely divisive controversy.

Moderates will lose the June 2021 presidential election in Iran unless there is a new agreement and sanctions relief—and the United States can forget diplomacy if hardliners win.

The killing of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, a top nuclear scientist, will complicate the incoming Biden administration’s efforts to renew the nuclear deal—and could lead to escalation.

Israeli officials should urge the new administration to maintain U.S. economic leverage over Iran while avoiding the personal vendettas and public policy feuds of the Obama era.

The countries’ interests overlap in some key ways. Biden can work with that.

“We don’t need a cheering section,” said Trump’s U.N ambassador. But Washington does need international compliance to make snapback sanctions work.

With its economy in trouble, Tehran will have to talk to Washington. But the next administration shouldn’t rush things.

Washington has no right to impose snapback sanctions on Tehran because it is no longer a participant in the Iran nuclear deal.

After a humiliating defeat at the U.N. Security Council, Washington will seek snapback sanctions to sabotage what’s left of the nuclear deal. Britain, France, and Germany can still keep it alive until after the U.S. election.

As a critical vote approaches, the fate of Iran nuclear sanctions—and decades of multilateralism—lies in the hands of Britain and France.

Combined with the COVID-19 pandemic, the country is struggling to stay afloat.

His administration wants to trigger the JCPOA’s snapback mechanism, but he probably can’t do that from the outside.

Trump’s Iran gambit is sweeping, punitive, and has little chance of success.

The supreme leader’s youth-washing strategy could keep detente with the United States off the table for years.

The controversial former national security advisor left his mark in Washington—especially on nuclear arms deals and Iran.