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Carlos Barria / Reuters Trump’s ‘Maximum-Pressure’ Strategy Is Destined to Fail
The combined might of punishing sanctions, diplomatic isolation, and even the threat of war won’t compel surrender from North Korea and Iran.
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Lisi Niesner / Reuters What It Would Take for Iran to Talk to Trump
It may not seem like it, but Tehran has a lot to gain from meeting with a U.S. president in search of his own nuclear deal.
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Susan Walsh / AP The Iran Regime-Change Crew Is Back
That probably spells doom for the nuclear deal.
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AP What the Iran Protests Were Not
Until and unless the urban middle classes and the poor join in common cause—as they did in 1979—there will be no revolution.
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Reuters How Hassan Rouhani Won in Iran
The nuclear deal was not enough.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Why the Russians Aren’t Likely to Break With Assad
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has arrived in Moscow with a near-impossible mission.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Trump's Big Test in the Middle East
The president-elect will encounter a region convulsed by change.
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The U.S. Should Focus on Asia: All of Asia
Washington's renewed attention to East Asia shouldn't come at the expense of the rest of the continent.
