Nawaz joins Dawn News for an interview to discuss: Why not debate issues openly?

Dispatches Jan 28, 2026

The expert conversation: Should Trump strike Iran? What happens next if he does?

By Jason M. Brodsky and Danny Citrinowicz

As the USS Abraham Lincoln arrives in the Middle East, two experts debate the opportunities, uncertainties, and risks of a US strike on Iran.
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Nawaz joins Dawn News for an interview to discuss: Why not debate issues openly?

Dispatches Jan 23, 2026

What Trump could do next in Iran

By Nate Swanson

As a US carrier strike group nears the Persian Gulf, what options does US President Donald Trump have to strike against the Iranian regime?
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Nawaz joins Dawn News for an interview to discuss: Why not debate issues openly?

MENASource Jan 14, 2026

Voices from Iran: As rejection of government reaches all-time high, Iranians also wary of foreign intervention

By Tara Kangarlou

If Trump is serious about peace, stability, and a lasting legacy, the path forward does not run through air strikes or transactional deals with a failing theocracy.
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Jan 26, 2021

Nawaz joins Dawn News for an interview to discuss: Why not debate issues openly?

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Jan 25, 2021

Iran’s hardliners think Biden might hurt their June presidential election strategy

By <span class="gta-embed--tax--expert gta-post-embed--tax--expert" >Saeid Jafari</span>

Hardliners had hoped that Donald Trump’s re-election would help them to oust the reformist and moderate candidates in June’s presidential election. Now hardliners are concerned that the new US administration will destroy their plans.

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Jan 24, 2021

Slavin quoted in the Daily Beast on US-Iran policy under the Biden administration
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Jan 21, 2021

Slavin quoted in Haaretz on reentering the nuclear deal
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Jan 21, 2021

Slavin joins Roqe Media to discuss Iranians in the new Biden Era
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Jan 21, 2021

Dagres quoted in VOA on Trump’s Iran social media campaign
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Jan 20, 2021

Why Iran could top Biden’s Middle East agenda

By <span class="gta-embed--tax--expert gta-post-embed--tax--expert" >Larry Luxner</span>

Each crisis represents a major US foreign-policy challenge, but all may receive less attention from the new American administration than another pressing issue in the region: Iran’s recent nuclear advances.

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Jan 19, 2021

Does Russia really want a US return to the Iran deal?

By <span class="gta-embed--tax--expert gta-post-embed--tax--expert" >Arman Mahmoudian and Giorgio Cafiero</span>

The Kremlin has also backed European efforts to save the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action since the US’s unilateral withdrawal from the deal in 2018. Below the surface, however, Russia’s views may be more complicated and ambivalent.

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Jan 17, 2021

Slavin quoted in Financial Times on US-Iran policy in the final days of the Trump administration
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Issue Brief

Jan 14, 2021

Rejoining the Iran nuclear deal: Not so easy

By <span class="gta-embed--tax--expert gta-post-embed--tax--expert">Brian O’Toole</span>

President-elect Joe Biden takes office on January 20, 2021, facing a litany of daunting foreign policy issues, from another massive cyber hack by Russian intelligence to alienated allies in Europe and beyond to a regime in Pyongyang that continues to proliferate weapons of mass destruction unchecked. But perhaps the stickiest—and most immediate—crisis the Biden administration […]

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