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Reinhard Krause / Reuters Trump’s Biggest Gift to Putin
Qualifying and conditioning the notion of NATO’s defense guarantee is a major step on the path to abandoning it.
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Ronen Zvulun / Reuters Jared Kushner’s Middle East Fantasy
In an interview with a Palestinian newspaper, the president’s son-in-law has revealed himself to be either strikingly naive—or deeply cynical.
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Majid Saeedi / Getty Trump Is About to Provoke an Unnecessary Crisis With Iran
Withdrawing from the nuclear deal, as he seems to prefer, would destroy America’s ability to monitor the Islamic Republic’s nuclear activities.
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Nazanin Tabatabaee Yazdi / TIMA / Reuters Don't Count on Regime Change to Stop Iran's Nuclear Program
It’s certainly possible the Islamic Republic could fall sometime soon. But the nuclear deal prevents weapons development now.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Trump Is Setting America on an Unpredictable Course in the Middle East
It starts with exiting the Iran nuclear deal without a plan, and it could end with a messy, violent, and unnecessary conflict.
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Heinz-Peter Bader / Reuters Destroying the Iran Deal While Claiming to Save It
Insisting on a “better” agreement, and threatening to walk away, is a recipe for no deal at all.
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Heinz-Peter Bader / Reuters The ‘Worst Deal Ever’ That Actually Wasn’t
It is true that Iran’s behavior in the region has not improved. But it is also true that this behavior cannot be attributed to the nuclear deal.
