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With the help of Russia and China, European leaders can prevent the total collapse of the 2015 agreement—and keep the region safer.

Iran’s decision to surpass uranium enrichment limits isn’t a dangerous provocation. It’s a calculated effort to get European leaders to reinforce the nuclear deal and halt the drift toward war.

Experts say Tehran has the capability to build a nuclear weapon within a few years but perhaps not the intent.

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A transcript of the Iranian president’s June 25 remarks.

What happens when Washington pushes Tehran too hard.

By threatening to breach the nuclear deal, Tehran hopes to scare Europe into prodding the United States back to the negotiating table. It may not work.

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U.S. sanctions won’t necessarily isolate Tehran. They could spur new strategic alliances.

With the dangers of miscalculation or misunderstanding high, Trump should act now to make sure the only wars the United States enters are the ones it really wants to.

These days, Tehran is having trouble getting what it wants from its neighbor—a development Washington can encourage by backing off.

Tehran’s recent nuclear policy announcements were driven by the inescapable constraints of domestic politics.

The country may have threatened to walk away from the nuclear deal, but its actions say it may be prepared to stay.

The Iranian president’s remarks about the future of the Iran nuclear deal.

Baghdad must insulate itself from the fallout by weaning itself from exclusive dependence on two outside backers.

Trump’s new Iran sanctions will hurt the United States in the long term.

By seeking to cut Iranian exports to zero, the U.S. president is taking a major economic and political risk.

Financial wars damage and disfigure economies as much as military ones. Countries ravaged by sanctions need reconstruction, too.

The kolbars brave subfreezing temperatures and border guards’ bullets to carry heavy loads over the mountains in an unemployment-plagued region that Iran’s government has all but forgotten.

What will it take for Washington to accept Iran as a “normal” state?