
What is the likely outcome of the Trump administration’s escalating pressure campaign against Iran? How will Tehran react, and what lessons can be drawn from the last four decades of U.S.-Iran history?

In neglecting democracy, Donald Trump has surrendered a valuable U.S. foreign policy instrument.

The Trump administration’s strategy promises more hardship for the Iranian people, more tensions in the region and, more divisions between the U.S. and its European allies.

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In an interview, Tamer Badawi discusses his recent article on relations between Iran and Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood.

The decision by the Trump administration to designate Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a foreign terrorist organization marks another dangerous step in the relentless campaign Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and National Security Advisor John Bolton are waging to provoke a U.S.-Iranian military conflict and topple the regime in Tehran.

U.S. partners forced by proximity to rub elbows with the IRGC might worry that unavoidable contacts could make them subject to U.S. sanctions.

America’s dealmaker-in-chief should shed his illusions of a grand bargain with Kim Jong Un and embrace the art of the possible. For clues, President Trump should look at the experience of the Iran nuclear agreement.

The notion that a muscular, unilateralist U.S. approach can produce the capitulation or implosion of this Iranian regime is an assumption untethered to history.

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