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Oct 8, 2024

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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In the News

Oct 17, 2017

Slavin Quoted in Iran’s View on Joint Action with Iran

By Barbara Slavin

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In the News

Oct 16, 2017

Castello Joins CNN to Discuss Iran Deal

By Carles Castello-Catchot

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In the News

Oct 15, 2017

Alfoneh in Arab Weekly: Trump’s New Iran strategy is Rohani’s Nightmare

By Ali Alfoneh

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New Atlanticist

Oct 13, 2017

Trump and the Art of the [Iran Nuclear] Deal

By Ashish Kumar Sen

As expected, US President Donald J. Trump on October 13 announced that he will not certify Iran’s compliance with the terms of a multilateral nuclear deal, accusing the Islamic Republic of “not living up to the spirit” of the agreement. While Trump did not take the United States out of the deal, he asserted the […]

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In the News

Oct 13, 2017

Handjani Quoted in Bloomberg on Trump and Iran

By Amir Handjani

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In the News

Oct 12, 2017

Stein in War on the Rocks: The Section T Canard: The Drive for Decertification and ‘Bomb Iran’ Redux

By Aaron Stein

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SyriaSource

Oct 12, 2017

JCPOA or Assad? Capillary vs Artery

By Frederic C. Hof

The Trump administration is focusing properly on blocking the destabilizing, terrorist-abetting activities of Iran in Mesopotamia, the Levant, and elsewhere. Yet rather than addressing the worst of those activities head-on, it is confounding allies and risking Western unity by making the 2015 nuclear deal (the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action – JCPOA) the centerpiece of […]

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In the News

Oct 11, 2017

Slavin Quoted in Carnegie Europe on The Iran Deal

By Barbara Slavin

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New Atlanticist

Oct 10, 2017

What are the Implications of Decertification of the Iran Nuclear Deal?

By Ashish Kumar Sen

The expectation that US President Donald J. Trump will decertify the nuclear deal with Iran this week raises the question: what would be the implications of decertification? Trump faces an October 15 deadline to certify to the US Congress that Iran is complying with the terms of the nuclear agreement that the Islamic Republic struck […]

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Oct 10, 2017

US strategy options for Iran’s regional challenge

By Kenneth M. Pollack and Bilal Y. Saab

In their new paper, entitled US Strategy Options for Iran’s Regional Challenge, Kenneth M. Pollack, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and Bilal Y. Saab, senior fellow and director for defense and security at the Middle East Institute, present five alternative strategies that the United States could pursue to limit Iran’s destabilizing activities. After […]

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