iran sanctions

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?

The Central Bank of Iran wants to take four zeros off the rial—but redenomination won’t work miracles.

Baghdad is heavily dependent on trade with Tehran. Without an exemption from Washington, Iraqis—and the stability of the country—will suffer.

The economic blow to Tehran will be compounded if it fails to comply with global financial transparency rules.

If the EU gives its special purpose vehicle for Iran trade a humanitarian focus, the Trump administration won’t be able to stop it without trampling longstanding U.S. exemptions.

They almost were, and now Hassan Rouhani could help get things back on track.

In the medium term, they’ll make it hard for the country to keep up oil production, satisfy domestic demand, and fund the government.

They are trying their best to erode Washington’s rules.

Far from convincing Tehran to cooperate, new U.S. measures are on track to achieve the exact opposite.

How Erdogan could use the exception to outsmart the United States, again.