For the Obama administration, the nuclear deal with Iran offers multiple advantages. For the near term, at least, it is a rare diplomatic triumph.
Both pressure and diplomacy were essential in pushing Iran to the negotiating table and reaching an interim nuclear deal.
The success of nuclear agreements are judged over a period of months and years, not over a period of minutes.
An interim agreement between Iran and the P5+1 could be a positive step toward achieving nonproliferation goals and overcoming mutual distrust with Iran.
After years of strife, agreement seems possible on Iran’s nuclear program and Syria’s civil war. The key is highly pragmatic cooperation based on national interests.
The double suicide attack on the Iranian embassy in Beirut killed at least 23 people and throws yet more fuel on the smoldering political fires of Lebanon. But what is known about the group behind it?
Under President Rouhani, Iran has profoundly changed its approach to the nuclear talks. To test the country’s real intentions, the West needs to reciprocate.
The endgame for negotiations would be an Iran whose entire nuclear program would be subject to routine but rigorous oversight to make sure everything is accounted for.
Every week a selection of leading experts answer a new question from Judy Dempsey on the foreign and security policy challenges shaping Europe’s role in the world.
Even if an agreement is ultimately successfully structured, implemented, and enforced, solving the Iranian nuclear problem does not resolve the Iran problem for the entire region or for the United States.
















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