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Disarming the Bomb: Distilling the Drivers and Disincentives for Iran's Nuclear Program
Press Release
Washington, March 29, 2023—Today, the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) released a new report, "Disarming the Bomb: Distilling the Drivers and Disincentives for Iran's...
By Jonathan Lord, Arona Baigal, Hunter Streling & LCDR Stewart Latwin
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Expect More Covert Israeli Operations against Iran after Nuclear Talks Stall, Say Experts
In The News
The drone attack on the warehouse in Isfahan on Saturday night, confirmed by Iran, and air strikes on a convoy of lorries carrying arms into eastern Syria from Iraq on Sunday ...
By Jonathan Lord
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Biden's Iran nuclear deal obstacles extend beyond Tehran
President Joe Biden's administration has been sounding more optimistic as it works to clear the final hurdles to revive the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran. But before that can be...
By Jonathan Lord
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US, Iran Return to Nuclear Talks After Five-Month Delay
The U.S. and Iran on Monday held their seventh round of indirect talks as part of efforts to return to the 2015 nuclear deal. The talks came more than five months after the co...
By Elisa Catalano Ewers
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Iran plans to keep video footage of nuclear sites from UN watchdog until a deal with US is reached
Iran plans to prevent inspectors from the UN nuclear watchdog reviewing video footage of some nuclear sites until there is an agreement to salvage the Iran nuclear deal, a sen...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Iran has a new president. He could end up being much more than that.
He’s a hardliner and staunch critic of the West, but he’s not expected to fundamentally change Iran’s policy toward the US. He’s loyal to the supreme leader, but he may soon r...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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A bombshell recording in Iran threatens to complicate nuclear negotiations in Vienna
In The News
The bombshell leak of an audio recording with Iran's foreign minister has exposed bitter internal divisions in Iran, threatening to complicate delicate negotiations between Te...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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CNAS Responds: U.S. Ends Support to Saudi War in Yemen
Press Note
President Biden has announced the end of U.S. support to Saudi Arabia's military campaign in Yemen....
By Richard Fontaine, Ilan Goldenberg, Elisa Catalano Ewers, Becca Wasser & Kaleigh Thomas
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Saudi Arabia and Gulf allies ‘to lift years-long blockade on Qatar, reopen border'
In The News
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
In The News
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
In The News
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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Iran’s Nuclear Efforts Pose Growing Threat to Its Foes Despite Setbacks
In The News
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
In The News
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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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
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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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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
In The News
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
In The News
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.
In The News
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
