Iran

Washington claims that maximum pressure won’t stop the supply of medicine and other humanitarian necessities, but banking sanctions are driving up import prices, blocking supply chains, and creating deadly drug shortages.

The U.S. president’s maximum pressure campaign on Iran is creating strange bedfellows in Congress.

Mark Esper sets out to persuade U.S. allies in Asia that the United States has their back.

The Trump administration’s nonresponse to Iranian aggression has sent an unmistakable message.

Prime Minister Mahdi is trying to bring the Popular Mobilization Forces under control of the government, but even he probably knows it won’t work.

Donald Trump and Mike Pompeo have made it clear that the United States is no longer committed to protecting Europe. The need for a viable pan-European defense force has never been greater.

The United Kingdom hopes to get European countries to join it in a maritime coalition to protect vulnerable tankers near Iran.

A single administrative act could put the Trump administration on a path toward a new nuclear deal with Tehran.

Using the financial 'death penalty' may be dangerous overreach.

Trump’s hawkish national security advisor may be losing credibility fast as the president pushes diplomacy, observers say.

With the State Department imposing new travel restrictions on Iranian diplomats, New York City influencers trek across town to see Tehran’s foreign minister.

Mass mobilization might be the best line of defense in a world of online warfare.

Maximum pressure could still deliver strategic outcomes.

On the podcast: Alberto Nisman accused Argentina’s president of covering up Iran’s role in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish center in Buenos Aires. Then he was shot in the head.

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