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Saudi Arabia and Gulf allies ‘to lift years-long blockade on Qatar, reopen border'
Saudi Arabia and its regional allies will end a years-long crippling blockade of Qatar and re-open its borders in a breakthrough agreement, due to be signed on Tuesday.The dea...
By Becca Wasser
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Biden’s test: Rebuilding the Iran nuclear deal Trump tore apart
President-elect Joe Biden has made no secret that one of his earliest foreign policy objectives will be for the U.S. to rejoin the landmark Iran nuclear deal that the Trump ad...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Iran assassination: One of many attempts to box in Biden
As President-elect Joe Biden considers his first foreign-policy moves upon taking office, perhaps none is garnering more attention – and coming under greater pressure – than h...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Joe Biden wants to re-enter the nuclear deal with Iran
The assassin was not a human. Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, erstwhile maestro of Iran’s nuclear-weapons programme, was gunned down on November 27th by a remote-controlled machinegun mou...
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Officials Say Peace Accord Between Sudan and Israel Is Already at Risk of Unraveling
A landmark agreement between Sudan and Israel to begin normalizing relations is at risk of unraveling just over a month after it was announced by President Trump, revealing a ...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Iran’s Nuclear Efforts Pose Growing Threat to Its Foes Despite Setbacks
Friday’s killing of one of Iran’s most important nuclear scientists has dealt a setback to the country’s nuclear program, which had staged a partial rebound after the 2015 nuc...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Biden faces mounting hurdles on path to rejoin Iran deal
President-elect Joe Biden is facing mounting hurdles to reenter the Iran nuclear deal as the Trump administration uses its final days in office to try to cement its so-called ...
By Kaleigh Thomas
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Trump Covid-19 diagnosis puts America's friends and foes on alert
Ripples of alarm, and some glee, coursed around the globe after President Donald Trump's Covid-19 diagnosis emerged, with U.S. allies and foes weighing whether the president's...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Exclusive: U.S. to slap sanctions on over two dozen targets tied to Iran arms
The United States on Monday will sanction more than two dozen people and entities involved in Iran’s nuclear, missile and conventional arms programs, a senior U.S. official sa...
By Peter Harrell
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U.S.-Iran relations at a crucial crossroad as nuclear deal hangs on election outcome
Voters in November’s presidential election will choose how the United States deals with Iran and its nuclear capabilities, according to multiple government officials and exper...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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CNAS-CSIS Report: Toward a More Proliferated World?
The United States and the international community have been relatively successful in preventing the spread of nuclear weapons. Disincentives and barriers to entry to the nucle...
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The UAE-Israel deal is Trump's first genuine foreign policy success, experts say
The groundbreaking agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates has delivered a political lifeline to Israel's embattled prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and repres...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Trump, US face pivotal UN vote on Iran
The Trump administration’s Iran strategy will face a key test this week as the United States calls for a vote at the United Nations on its resolution to extend an arms embargo...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Elections provide U.S. and Iran a brief window to lower tensions: think tank
The United States and Iran will have a brief window between their upcoming presidential elections in which to ease dangerous tensions, according to a new report from a Washing...
By Ilan Goldenberg, Kaleigh Thomas & Elisa Catalano Ewers
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Mysterious explosions keep happening in Iran. Israel is likely behind it.
For weeks, Iran has faced a deadly wave of explosions and fires at sensitive military and civilian sites, including one incident that caused immense damage to an important nuc...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Why Jewish Americans are shifting position on Israel
"I've had people tell me, ‘Things have shifted more in the past two weeks than I’ve seen them shift in the past ten years,’” Emily Mayer said. Mayer is the co-founder and poli...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Suspicions Mount Of Foreign Hand In Fire At Sensitive Iranian Nuclear Site
There is growing support among outside security experts for the notion that an "incident" at Iran's main nuclear-enrichment facility last week was an act of sabotage in a shad...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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CNAS Announces Task Force on a New U.S. Agenda Toward the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is pleased to announce its task force on developing a new U.S. agenda toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The task force, wh...
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Trump’s foreign friends race to lock in gains
Israel might start annexing territory claimed by the Palestinians. Taiwan is pushing for a historic free trade agreement. North Korea is desperate for sanctions relief. And Po...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Breaking China: A rupture looms between Israel and the United States
Israel’s announcement last week that an Israeli consortium would build Sorek 2, the world’s largest desalination plant, surprised many who had been watching the deal: The cont...
By Vance Serchuk