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Iran wants the United States to remove all sanctions before it accepts an invitation to talks.

Friday, 19 February 2021 9:53 AM   [ Last Update: Friday, 19 February 2021 11:18 AM ] Activists from Code Pink stage a protest in front of US Treasury Department demanding the lifting of sanctions on Iran. Iran’s foreign minister has urged the Joe Biden administration to unconditionally lift all sanctions imposed on Iran under former US president Donald Trump after the US retreated from some of Trump’s anti-Iran measures. “US a...

China’s partnership with Iran is strategic and conservative: if the latter comes to represent an obstacle to its interests, China most likely won’t hesitate to oust Iran.

How Biden Could Truly ‘Fix’ the Iran Nuclear Deal Fred Fleitz © Carlo Allegri/Reuters Irans Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif sits for an interview with Reuters in New York, N.Y., April 24, 2019. According to press reports, Iranian officials have given the Biden administration seven preconditions to meet before Tehran will join new talks on resuming compliance with the provisions of the deeply flawed 2015 nuclear deal known as the JCPOA. These preconditions appear to ...

Cohen Criticizes Kochavi’s Confrontational, Counterproductive Comments Uri Cohen 01/31/2021 Israel’s military Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi’s controversial speech from last week was still making headlines on Sunday, as the nation’s top intelligence official, Mossad chief Yossi Cohen, joined other security officials in criticizing the general’s remarks. Cohen, according to the Israeli daily Yediot Acharonot, believes Kochavi’s words were out of line, and that his position, while bro...

Biden has a chance to learn from past mistakes with Beijing and formulate a better policy.

Iran is clear it wants to keep its missiles and use them to deter America. Iran has been conducting long-range missile drills days before U.S. President-elect comes to office. The goal of Tehran is to present the new U.S. administration with a  fait accompli by showing off its capabilities. The recent Iranian missile drill saw one fall within 100 miles of the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier in the Indian ocean, and just twenty miles from a commercial ship. At the same time Israel-Iran tensions h...

The Atlantic America’s Second-Worst Scenario So far, cumulative acts of civic virtue have saved the republic. But the constitutional order is still in danger. Updated at 7:18 p.m. ET on January 17, 2021. The next time an insurgent mob arrives to sack the Capitol, if one happens to try between now and Inauguration Day, mere strength of numbers will not overwhelm the defenses. In the 10 days since the January 6 assault on Congress, the Secret Service has overseen the establishment of an instant...

What’s new? The 2015 Iran nuclear deal has looked at best shaky since the Trump administration withdrew from it in 2018, imposing damaging economic sanctions on the Islamic Republic. In response, Tehran ramped up its nuclear activity in contravention of its obligations under the agreement. President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration could mark an inflection point. Why does it matter? Having failed to achieve its objectives, Trump’s “maximum pressure” strategy may be nearing an end. R...

The only way to improve on the JCPOA is to seek no deal at all, pushing instead for regime collapse.