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May 3, 2018

Little Fires Everywhere: The Middle East After Trump’s Iran Deal Decision

By Richard LeBaron

The best-selling novel “Little Fires Everywhere” by Celeste Ng provides an apt title for the next book in the long-running non-fiction history of Middle East conflicts—that which will come after US President Donald J. Trump moves to modify or nullify the Iran nuclear agreement. Those fires, not so little for those directly affected, are burning […]

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May 2, 2018

Can Russia Serve As An Honest Broker Between Israel And Iran?

By Stephen Blank

Victory in war often brings with it unforeseen challenges and obligations.  Russia is now learning that to sustain its victory in Syria’s civil war it must play a role as an arbiter or honest broker between Iran and Israel lest their rivalry explodes into large-scale combat, engulfs the entire region, and undermines Russia’s newly-acquired position […]

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May 1, 2018

Why Netanyahu’s revelations are significant

By Matthew Kroenig

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on April 30 provided a twenty-minute PowerPoint presentation of secret Iranian nuclear documents, acquired by Israeli intelligence. The information revealed will be unlikely to change many minds about the wisdom of the nuclear deal with Iran, but it is significant. It shows that the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) […]

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May 1, 2018

Sunnis in Iran: Part III; the Debate Continues

By Scheherazade Faramarzi

As a journalist and researcher, I very much appreciate a spirited debate about controversial issues. So I welcome the article written recently by a PhD graduate student about my issue brief on Iran’s Sunnis. I agree with the student’s concerns about the map, with which I was not totally comfortable. However, on the more important […]

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Apr 30, 2018

Netanyahu: Iran Lied About Its Nuclear Weapons

By Rachel Ansley

Less than two weeks before US President Donald J. Trump is due to decide on the future of US participation in the Iran nuclear deal, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed that his country has found proof Iran lied about the extent of its nuclear program.  In a speech delivered on April 30, Netanyahu said Israel has […]

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Apr 30, 2018

Slavin Quoted in CNSNews on Israel’s Reveal of Iranian Nuclear Documents

By Barbara Slavin

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Apr 30, 2018

Slavin Quoted in Foreign Policy on John Bolton and the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran

By Barbara Slavin

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Apr 27, 2018

The JCPOA Crisis and Israeli-Iranian Relations

By Ehud Eiran

Much of the discourse on the future of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the nuclear agreement between the P5+1 powers and Iran, has centered broadly on two issue sets. The first comprises the issues between Iran and the six powers; the second, perhaps more widely-discussed are dynamics between the United States and the […]

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Apr 27, 2018

British-based Environmentalist is Iran’s Latest Heartbroken ‘Outsider’

By Noah Annan

Appointed by President Hassan Rouhani as the new head of Iran’s Department of Environment (DOE), Isa Kalantari knew that this chronically mismanaged organization desperately needed new blood. Facing myriad environmental challenges including growing water shortages, Kalantari, who previously served as minister of agriculture and whose policies had been harshly criticized, decided to reach out for […]

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Apr 27, 2018

Slavin Joins SiriusXM to Discuss Iran Nuclear Deal and Trump Policy

By Barbara Slavin

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