As the US and Iran discuss a way back to the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action that Donald Trump abandoned three years ago, I recall a meeting in 2016 with an American official who …
President Joe Biden has announced that he will withdraw US troops from Afghanistan by 11 September, finally ending America’s longest war ever. The move was indicative of a broader shift by the United States away …
On 11 April, Iran’s nuclear reprocessing facility at Natanz suffered a major sabotage attack that has probably set the country’s nuclear enrichment program back at least nine months. On the same day, the Israeli public …
The signing of a 25-year cooperation agreement between the oil-rich and regionally influential, but US sanctioned, Islamic Republic of Iran and the globally powerful, but US pressured, People’s Republic of China inserts a new strategic …
Former US president Donald Trump’s ‘maximum pressure’ campaign against Iran utterly failed to enhance regional or global security. His successor, Joe Biden, must not make the same mistake. The centrepiece of Trump’s Iran policy was …