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Time to Stop Talking About Talks Vice President Joe Biden visit to Israel March 2016 Meet with PM Benjamin Netanyahu (Israel Policy Forum) — Whenever a new president takes office, speculation abounds about how long it will take for the incoming administration to dive into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and try to solve it. In some cases, administrations put a high priority on the issue from the get-go, as happened under President Obama and his immediate appointment of former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell as his special envoy, or as happened under President Trump with his frequent...

President Donald Trump reacts after hanging up a phone call with Sudan’s leader on Oct. 23 about normalizing ties with Israel. Those surrounding Trump include Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, second from left, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, national security adviser Robert O’Brien. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) (CN) — The Trump administration took Sudan off a federal terrorism blacklist Monday, less than two months after the country agreed to normalize its relations with Israel.  One of the U.S. government’s most powerful and effective sanction ...

Should President-elect Joe Biden return the United States to the 2015 multilateral Iran nuclear deal? Experts and former U.S. officials are publicly weighing in on the issue – both for and against – and to a degree not seen on other anticipated foreign-policy steps. As Mr. Biden and his national security team have spelled out recently, Step 1 of a Biden plan would be a return to the deal, from which President Donald Trump withdrew in 2018, in exchange for Iran’s return to compliance. Step 2 would be a return to negotiations to address both the original deal’s sunset clauses and other ...

Should President-elect Joe Biden return the United States to the 2015 multilateral Iran nuclear deal? Experts and former U.S. officials are publicly weighing in on the issue – both for and against – and to a degree not seen on other anticipated foreign-policy steps. As Mr. Biden and his national security team have spelled out recently, Step 1 of a Biden plan would be a return to the deal, from which President Donald Trump withdrew in 2018, in exchange for Iran’s return to compliance. Step 2 would be a return to negotiations to address both the original deal’s sunset clauses and other ...

Editor at large at "the atlantic," and msnbc contributor and ilan goldenberg, senior fellow and director of the middle east security program at the center for new american security. gentlemen, good to see you. steve, i talked to you shortly after the iran deal. i was in tehran while it was being negotiated, and no one in tehran, america or anywhere else where the deal was being talked about was under any impression that iran was suddenly going to become a friend of the west, a friend of america, was going to get out of the business it was in in yemen or with hezbollah or with assad. so the con...