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Is U.S. Policy Towards Venezuela at a Turning Point?
On March 31, the Trump administration announced a pivot in U.S. policy towards Venezuela. The United States has spent more than a year backing opposition leader Juan Guaido, w...
By John Hughes & Peter Harrell
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Cryptocurrency Laundering Is a National Security Risk
Commentary
On March 2, the U.S. Department of Justice indicted two Chinese nationals for allegedly laundering cryptocurrency on behalf of North Korea. The laundering scheme ferreted away...
By Yaya J. Fanusie
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How an ease of sanctions may combat the coronavirus crisis
Commentary
Pressure is increasing to ease sanctions on Iran and Venezuela in response to the coronavirus crisis. Prominent Democrats in Congress have called on the administration to lift...
By Peter Harrell
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Busting North Korea’s Sanctions Evasion
Commentary
North Korea is the most sophisticated, creative, and dangerous actor when it comes to stealthy and skillful methods of financing illicit nuclear and missile proliferation. Whi...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg & Neil Bhatiya
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Trump Has Made Sanctions a Path to Strikes
Commentary
U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to kill the Iranian general Qassem Suleimani, the architect of Iran’s political and military influence in the Middle East, and the Irani...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg & Neil Bhatiya
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Iran attacks U.S. troops in Iraq base
Video
Neil Bhatiya joins Bloomberg's Daybreak Asia by phone to discuss the latest developments in heightened tensions between the United States and Iran. Watch the full conversatio...
By Neil Bhatiya
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Add Economic Policy to Deterrence Planning
Commentary
American defense leaders have adapted over the years to shifts in technology and conflict — for example, accepting space and cyber as principal warfighting domains and integra...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg & Jordan Tama
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Trump’s Use of Sanctions Is Nothing Like Obama’s
Commentary
Two and a half years into Donald Trump’s presidency, there is no doubt that economic sanctions are his administration’s foreign-policy weapon of choice. From China to Iran to ...
By Peter Harrell
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Great-Power Competition Is Washington’s Top Priority—But Not the Public’s
Commentary
For all the acrimony in Washington today, the city’s foreign policy establishment is settling on a rare bipartisan consensus: that the world has entered a new era of great-pow...
By Richard Fontaine
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Iran Under Sanctions: A Scramble For Cancer Care And Blame To Go Around
Podcast
At a cancer treatment center in Iran's capital of Tehran, a doctor's fight to treat her cancer patients has become harder. As U.S. sanctions sink in, the flow of medicine and ...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Congress Is Gearing Up for a Bigger Fight With Trump Over Russia Policy
Commentary
After a long delay, the Trump administration finally took the first steps in a legally mandated effort to punish Russia for its use of chemical weapons in the 2018 poisoning o...
By Neil Bhatiya
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Trump Can’t Stop Putin From Poaching U.S. Allies
Commentary
On July 17, the United States finally decided to suspend Turkey’s participation in the F-35 fighter jet program, a move made in retaliation for Turkey’s acceptance of the Russ...
By Mark Simakovsky & Edward Fishman
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New U.S. Sanctions on Iran Reveal China’s Growing Role in Illicit Supply Chains
Commentary
On July 18, in the Trump administration’s first punitive measure since Iran announced earlier this month that it would exceed the levels of enriched uranium permitted under th...
By Neil Bhatiya
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There Is Still Time for Diplomacy With Iran
Commentary
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani announced this week that Iran would stop complying with certain elements of the 2015 nuclear agreement. The announcement, a year after Preside...
By Ilan Goldenberg & Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Deadline For Iranian Oil Waivers
The Trump administration says today marks a new chapter in efforts to drive Iran's oil sales down to zero. It wants China and India to stop importing Iranian crude or face san...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Sanctions Can’t Spark Regime Change
Commentary
In the last several decades, financial and economic sanctions have become a key tool of U.S. foreign policy. The Trump administration has made particularly heavy use of this t...
By David Cohen & Zoe Weinberg
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The Impact of U.S. Sanctions on Iranian Oil
This conversation originally appeared in The Iran Primer. On April 22, the Trump Administration announced that it will stop providing sanctions exemptions to countries that im...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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China could skirt US sanctions on Iranian oil: Expert
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Ashley Feng of the Center for a New American Security explains why she agrees that there's "definitely" pressure on China to continue evading oil sanctions. View the full con...
By Ashley Feng
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Trump Administration Designates Part Of Iran's Military As Foreign Terrorist Group
The U.S. moved to list the Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corp as a terrorist group — an escalation of anti-Iran moves that critics say could leave U.S. forces vulnerable to...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Why Trump’s sanctions aren’t working
Commentary
On March 22, President Trump tweeted that he ordered the “withdrawal” of North Korea sanctions. It is still unclear whether he pulled back an upcoming package of North Korea s...
By David Cohen
