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Suspicions Mount Of Foreign Hand In Fire At Sensitive Iranian Nuclear Site
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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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How the Bottom Fell Out of the U.S.-Saudi Alliance
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In late November 1973, just six weeks after Saudi Arabia and OPEC launched a devastating oil embargo on Europe and the United States, U.S. National Security Advisor Henry Kiss...
By Kaleigh Thomas
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U.S. Could Do More to Deter Iran Gray Zone Strategy, Experts Say
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When American administrations develop a deterrence strategy for Iran in the Middle East, a model to follow could be how Israel runs a covert military campaign against Iran in ...
By Ilan Goldenberg & Kaleigh Thomas
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Israel’s shadow campaign offers lessons for U.S. in standoff with Iran, report says
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Israel’s unacknowledged military campaign against Iranian targets in Syria could provide a model for the United States as it struggles to contain Tehran’s network of armed pro...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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With Iran tensions high, a US military command pushes a dubious carrier strategy
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Amid heightened tension with Iran, the U.S. Navy is operating two carriers in the Middle East, and all signs point to increasing pressure from U.S. Central Command to maintain...
By Kaleigh Thomas
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This Is a Particularly Bad Time for U.S.-Iran Tensions to Flare
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A sober American leader — looking at the scale of the crisis she faced at home, recognizing that she had to contend not just with a novel virus but a fractured political syste...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Coronavirus Can’t Quarantine The Proxy War Between U.S. and Iran
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A pandemic is spreading around the world, challenging global health systems and national preparedness. About the only thing the novel coronavirus is not disrupting is conflict...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Coronavirus: The Deadly New U.S.-Iran Standoff
The official COVlD-19 death toll in Iran has risen to 237 people today as the U.S.-Iranian diplomatic standoff continues to slow down international cooperation to fight the ne...
By Peter Harrell
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U.S. military scrambles to confront a new reality across the Middle East
In the weeks since an American drone strike killed Iranian Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani, U.S. military leaders have been sprinting to confront a dangerous new reality in the Midd...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Soleimani's enigmatic successor vows revenge on US
The Trump administration has trained its eye on the new leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds force, but may have a hard time targeting a commander expert in...
By Kaleigh Thomas
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11 US troops were injured in Iran’s attack. It shows how close we came to war.
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Last week, Iran attacked two US military sites in Iraq. Now, a week later, one thing has become unmistakably clear: The US and Iran only barely avoided a potentially devastati...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Nervous U.S. Allies Brace for Iran Fallout
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Caught off guard by U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to order the killing of the most powerful Iranian general, the United States’ longtime Gulf and European allies are ...
By Ilan Goldenberg & Rachel Rizzo
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Iran avoids full-blown war with US but is caught in new crisis
The Iranian leadership, rattled by the death of a top general in an US drone attack, hit at US forces in Iraq with missile strikes designed to save face at home but not sparki...
By Kaleigh Thomas
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The US killed Soleimani. What will Iran do next?
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In his speech declaring a kind of victory over Iran on Wednesday, President Donald Trump said “Iran appears to be standing down,” implying the threat America faces from the Is...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Experts: US, Iran Unlikely to Escalate Tensions
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Following Iran's missile attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq Tuesday and President Donald Trump's speech Wednesday, experts say they believe the United States and Iran are unlikely...
By Kaleigh Thomas
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Its Missiles Did Little Damage, but Iran Has More Potent Weapons
American military and intelligence officials were stunned at the precision, scale and sheer boldness of what they later concluded was an Iranian attack. Four months ago, a sw...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Has Trump deterred Iran? Experts not so sure.
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US Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Wednesday that the US strike that killed a top Iranian general had restored credibility to the US threat to Tehran to restrain itself mili...
By Kaleigh Thomas
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Trump’s Chance to Take the High Road With Iran
It could have been much worse. It’s a measure of this dangerous moment that many observers felt relief on Tuesday night after the Pentagon announced that there had been no Am...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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CNAS Responds: Tensions Rise Between the United States and Iran
Press Note
The first week of 2020 has seen a sharp escalation in U.S.-Iran tensions, with the U.S. killing of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani, Iranian missile strikes on U.S. military t...
By Richard Fontaine, Ilan Goldenberg, Elizabeth Rosenberg, Kayla M. Williams, Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Loren DeJonge Schulman, Neil Bhatiya & Kaleigh Thomas
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Iran just fired missiles at US military targets. What does this mean?
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The Trump administration’s reticence might be the most hopeful sign that the US-Iran conflict that has escalated dramatically since the strike on Soleimani could cool back dow...
By Ilan Goldenberg
