Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
The U.S. administration should adopt more cohesive policies in the region, otherwise U.S. actions may not bring greater stability, but the contrary.
Adopting radical measures to limit Tehran’s influence has usually failed, so it’s best to try something else.
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Few countries have maintained clearer or more consistent aspirations over the last four decades than the Islamic Republic of Iran.
... both the Russians and the Chinese don't fear Iran with a nuclear weapon as much as the United States does and values Iran as a potentially important commercial energy partner.
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Given the global rise in nuclear activity, the world should move quickly to create such a system. When existing powers are less able to prevent uranium enrichment—and even hand over highly enriched material to other countries—it incentivizes competitors to double down on their programs.
In the last two decades, the Balkans appear to have become a new arena for religious competition between Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Iran. The strategies used by these very different actors show their efforts in exporting faith in the name of power and in projecting their identity and domestic structures.
If Iran goes back to enrichment, then you have the rather nightmare prospect, even though the odds are poor of success, of an Israeli preemptive military strike or a conflict in which the United States could be involved