Who calls the shots in Iran on economic policy, security, and domestic calls for reform? A look at the government’s organization chart indicates how complicated the answer is.
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The United States’ withdrawal from the arms control agreement has heightened tensions and left the remaining signatories scrambling to keep the deal alive.
Iran appears increasingly boxed in by intensifying U.S. sanctions, the latest of which will effectively cut it off from its main oil customers.
The United States has reactivated sanctions against Iran that could trigger the collapse of the multilateral Iran nuclear deal.
CFR's Philip Gordon and Ray Takeyh join James M. Lindsay to discuss political unrest in Iran and the future of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.
Minister Zarif discusses U.S.-Iran relations, regional politics in the Middle East, and the future of the Iran nuclear deal.
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The Only Sensible Iran Strategy Is ContainmentThe most effective plan against the Islamic Republic has always been the most obvious—and the one nobody in Washington seems willing to try.
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Top Conflicts to Watch in 2020: An Armed Confrontation Between Iran and the United StatesThis year, an armed confrontation between Iran and the United States or one of its allies over Iran's involvement in regional conflicts and support of militant proxy groups was included as a top tier priority in the Center for Preventive Action’s annual Preventive Priorities Survey.
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Evaluating the Trump Administration’s Iran PolicyIn his testimony before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, CFR President Richard N. Haass analyzed the pros and cons of the targeted killing of Qasem Soleimani and offered recommendations for U…
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What Is the Status of the Iran Nuclear Agreement?The United States’ withdrawal from the arms control agreement has heightened tensions and left the remaining signatories scrambling to keep the deal alive.
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The Coming Nuclear Crisis With IranIran’s move to suspend cooperation with the 2015 nuclear deal threatens to further escalate already high tensions between Washington and Tehran.
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Soleimani’s Death: A Crippling Blow to the Iranian RegimeThe U.S. targeted killing of commander Qasem Soleimani marks a further weakening of Iran’s regime in its struggle against the United States and its ability to project influence in the Mideast.
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Shedding Light on the Iran-South Africa RelationshipKitaneh Fitzpatrick is an intern for Middle Eastern history and geopolitics at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. She is pursuing a master of arts in Near Eastern studies at New York Unive…
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Should the United States Maintain Maximum Pressure on Iran?In this episode of our special Election 2020 series of The President’s Inbox, Robert Malley and Ray Takeyh join host James M. Lindsay to discuss U.S. policy toward Iran.
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The President's Inbox: Should the United States Maintain Maximum Pressure on Iran?Each week between now and the Iowa caucuses, I’m talking with two experts with differing views on how the United States should handle a foreign policy challenge it faces. These special episodes are part of CFR’s Election 2020 activities, which are made possible in part by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
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U.S.-Iran RelationsAriane M. Tabatabai, associate political scientist at the RAND Corporation and adjunct senior research scholar at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, discusses U.S.-Iran…
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Rouhani Punctures Hope for Iran-U.S. ThawIran’s president used his UN address to dispel notions about ramped-up diplomacy with the United States or fundamental changes to Iranian actions in the Persian Gulf.
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Nuclear Proliferation and Arms ControlLori Esposito Murray, adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, discusses nuclear proliferation and arms control, as part of CFR’s Religion and Foreign Policy Conference Call series…
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Iran’s Next Move, With Ray TakeyhRay Takeyh, senior fellow for Middle East studies at CFR, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the rising tensions between Iran and the United States.
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Trump's Iran Policy Proves the Primacy of U.S. Power—but to What End?As Iran slowly untethers itself from the Iran nuclear deal’s central constraints on enriched uranium, signaling the deal’s potential collapse, President Trump is proving that U.S. unilateral power re…
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Is Iran’s Nuclear Program Back for Good?The demise of the Iran nuclear deal does not make Tehran an immediate threat, but it opens the door to nuclear escalation.