Trump’s Angry Iran Tweet

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The US must enforce sanctions to prevent Iran from rebuilding its nuclear program

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To ensure that Tehran cannot get its hands on the financial resources it would need to rebuild its nuclear program, Iran sanctions enforcement should start with China.

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Trump’s Angry Iran Tweet

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Jun 26, 2025

What really happened to Fordow? Three possible futures for Iran’s nuclear program after US strikes.

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Trump’s Angry Iran Tweet

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The big lessons from 12 days of war with Iran

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A tentative cease-fire is underway in the war between Iran and Israel. But where did the conflict leave Iran, Israel, and the United States?

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A bipartisan Iran strategy for the next US administration—and the next two decades

As tensions spike in the Middle East, how should the next US president approach Iran and its network of proxies including Hezbollah and Hamas? With a strategy that can be maintained for decades, by administrations of either party. A bipartisan, expert working group lays out the details.

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New Atlanticist

Jul 23, 2018

Trump’s Angry Iran Tweet

By Ashish Kumar Sen

US President Donald J. Trump, in a late-night, all-caps tweet on July 22, threatened Iran with “consequences the likes of which few throughout history have suffered before” if Iranian leaders continued to threaten the United States with war.

Iran

In the News

Jul 23, 2018

Slavin Quoted in Think Progress on Trump’s Threat to Iran

By Barbara Slavin

Read the full article here.

Iran

In the News

Jul 23, 2018

Kroenig Quoted in Vox on Trump’s Threat to Iran

By Matthew Kroenig

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Iran

In the News

Jul 23, 2018

Slavin Quoted in The Hill on Trump’s Threat to Iran

By Barbara Slavin

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IranSource

Jul 23, 2018

US Policies Undercut ‘Support’ for ‘Iranian Voices’

By Barbara Slavin

Among the oddest features of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s address at the Reagan Library on July 22 — billed as “Supporting Iranian Voices” – was the absence of any actual Iranian on the dias. Pompeo was introduced by Fred Ryan, chairman of the board of the Reagan Foundation, and by Sen. Tom Cotton, a […]

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In the News

Jul 22, 2018

Dagres Joins BBC to Discuss Trump’s Iran Tweet and Pompeo’s Iran Speech

By Holly Dagres

Listen to the full discussion here.

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In the News

Jul 22, 2018

Slavin in Axios: Pompeo invokes human rights to defend administration’s Iran policy

By Barbara Slavin

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In the News

Jul 22, 2018

Slavin in AXIOS: Pompeo invokes human rights to defend administration’s Iran policy

By Barbara Slavin

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NATOSource

Jul 20, 2018

Director of US National Intelligence: Russia’s ‘Actions have Been Pretty Nefarious Towards Us’

By Dan Coats and Andrea Mitchell, Aspen Institute

Excerpts from Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats interview with NBC Chief Correspondent Andrea Mitchell, July 19, 2018.

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A poster and flag bearing Lebanese Hezbollah's logo in Baalbek, Lebanon. (Wikimedia Commons)

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Jul 20, 2018

Tehran struggles with terrorism financing bill

By Nader Uskowi

The Supreme Leader and hardliners will have a choice to make: continue supporting and commanding the armed militia groups and accepting questionable cash flow out of the country, or take action for the sake of their government’s future.

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