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Dec 20, 2021

I once headed the Iran branch of Israel’s military intelligence research. Here’s why Israel can’t take out Iran’s nuclear program.

By Danny Citrinowicz

Besides the operational challenges in executing such a military attack, especially given Iranian forces’ buildup of surface-to-air units, there are other more strategic challenges facing Israel.

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Dec 14, 2021

What happens if Iran nuclear talks collapse?

By Masoud Mostajabi

On December 9, the Atlantic Council’s Future of Iran Initiative (FOII) held a virtual public event on whether a ‘Plan B’ exists in the event the nuclear talks fail.

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Dec 13, 2021

Iran’s water is running dry. Now its water woes are worsening.

By Khosro Sayeh Isfahani

With the Islamic Republic disregarding the environmental and human costs of erratic development projects, coupled with the climate catastrophe that the world is facing, Iran has plunged headlong into a crisis with no safe shore in sight.

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Dec 8, 2021

China is the real barometer of the state of Iran nuclear talks in Vienna

By Jacopo Scita

China, which played an important if secondary role during the final leg of nuclear negotiations during 2013-2015, is the most suited of the P4+1—Britain, China, France, Germany, and Russia—to exert effective leverage to bring Tehran back to compliance now.

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Dec 7, 2021

Iran’s allies lost seats in the Iraqi elections. Now Tehran is recalibrating its strategy.

By Anonymous

Many analysts have interpreted the results of recent Iraqi parliamentary elections on October 10 as a sign of diminishing Iranian influence, but the reality is more nuanced.

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Dec 6, 2021

Iran offers less for more as Vienna talks stall

By Barbara Slavin

More than five months after multilateral nuclear talks with Iran were paused before the country’s presidential elections in June, a new negotiating team arrived in Vienna in late November with additional demands and fewer concessions than its predecessors.

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Dec 1, 2021

Iran’s COVID-19 deaths ‘2.5 times higher’ than health ministry numbers

By Anonymous

Despite reassuring statistics, Iran—which already has the highest number of deaths and cases in the Middle East—appears to be entering a sixth wave of COVID-19 with no end in sight.

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Nov 24, 2021

How Iran sees the Biden doctrine for the JCPOA and Persian Gulf

By Javad Heiran-Nia

Iranian experts in Tehran see the Joe Biden administration’s approach toward Iran and the JCPOA in the context of his government’s overall foreign policy and its desire to extricate itself from military conflicts in the Persian Gulf.

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Nov 18, 2021

Iran’s drones are clones. Now they’re being used in multiple conflicts.

By Seth J. Frantzman

Iran’s military drone program has grown in recent years and Iran-backed groups have increasingly used drones in conflicts.

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Nov 10, 2021

Is Iran going on an arms shopping spree in Moscow?

By Robert Czulda

Iran has frequently turned to Russia for arms it could not produce at home.

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