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Sep 19, 2025

Snapback sanctions threaten to further derail Iran nuclear deal hopes

By Rob Macaire

Now would be the best time for the West to negotiate a deal with Iran—but snapback sanctions threaten a derailing into further confrontation.

Economic Sanctions Iran

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Sep 18, 2025

Libya’s stalled transition: When domestic spoilers meet foreign interests

By Luis Aleman and Karim Mezran

Libya’s stalled transition has not happened by chance; it has been deliberately engineered into paralysis by both domestic spoilers and foreign powers.

Libya Middle East

MENASource

Sep 18, 2025

Insights from Israel and the Gulf: An evolving regional integration

By Emily Milliken and Gershom Sacks

At a moment when the Abraham Accords is in question, we witnessed how the region moves quietly, sometimes boldly, towards cooperation.

Israel Middle East
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Jun 24, 2019

Lipner in Arena Journal: Will the honeymoon with Trump end in Bahrain? (in Hebrew)
Israel Middle East

MENASource

Jun 24, 2019

How the Manama Workshop on Palestine will succeed

By Richard LeBaron

The US-sponsored “Peace to Prosperity” workshop will convene in Bahrain on Tuesday June 25 and Wednesday June 26 to “discuss strategies and galvanize support for potential economic investments and initiatives that could be made possible by a peace agreement” between the Israelis and Palestinians.

Israel Middle East

MENASource

Jun 24, 2019

Trilateral tribulations: The upcoming Israeli advisers meeting

By Mark N. Katz

Iran and its role in Syria are likely to be the main agenda item at the June 24-26 trilateral meeting of the US, Russian, and Israeli national security advisers in Israel. What US National Security Adviser John Bolton and his Israeli counterpart, Meir Ben-Shabbat, want from Russia is clear: Moscow’s in reducing or even eliminating the Iranian presence in Syria. Russian National Security Adviser Nikolai Patrushev, though, is unlikely to meet their demands on this score.

Iran Israel

IranSource

Jun 24, 2019

Hezbollah’s new drug rehab unit points to limits of US sanctions policy

By Lizzie Porter

Up an untarmacked road, high above the Mediterranean Sea, the Shifa' Speciality Hospital (SSH) sits behind half-built apartment blocks in the suburban town of Aaramoun just south of Beirut.

Iran Middle East

In the News

Jun 23, 2019

William Wechsler quoted in the News of Bahrain: Security Threats Reviewed

By William Wechsler

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In the News

Jun 23, 2019

McFate Quoted in The New York Times on the White House’s Options to Counter Iran

By Sean McFate

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Iran

In the News

Jun 22, 2019

Barbara Slavin mentioned in WBAA-NPR: Iran Response: Trump Falls Into History Of Long-Fraught Decision-Making

By Barbara Slavin

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Iran

In the News

Jun 22, 2019

Barbara Slavin quoted in the Washington Examiner: Washington wonders how Iran will respond after Trump abruptly cancels strike

By Barbara Slavin

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Iran

In the News

Jun 21, 2019

McFate Quoted in The Evening Standard on How Britain Must Modernize its Defense Forces

By Sean McFate

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Iran

New Atlanticist

Jun 21, 2019

Open source investigators set their sights on Saudi airstrikes in Yemen

By Ashish Kumar Sen

Bellingcat and the Global Legal Action Network are using open source information to investigate airstrikes carried out by the Saudi-led coalition on civilian targets and critical infrastructure in Yemen.

Disinformation The Gulf
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