Realism and Restraint
On January 29, the Biden administration appointed Rob Malley, a former senior Middle East policy official in the Obama administration, to serve as President...
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On January 29, the Biden administration appointed Rob Malley, a former senior Middle East policy official in the Obama administration, to serve as President...
While the Biden administration is inclined to return to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) if Iran also returns to compliance, restoring the...
It is a common assumption underlying debate about Iran policy: Iranian politics are a struggle between hardliners and reformers, and U.S. and European actions...
Iran’s Demographics: A Brief History When Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini led Iran’s Islamic Revolution in 1979, posters went up across the country depicting a good...
When it comes to war, America is almost always playing an “away game.” The conflicts the nation has recently fought, and the defense activities...
19FortyFive is about change, and transients—especially sudden, dramatic, and quick ones, or black swans like a Pearl Harbor that fracture past trendlines altogether—are phenomena...
In the run up to 2003’s disastrous Iraq War, the Bush Administration lobbed forth every possible reason it could to increase public support of...
Could Iran develop a nuclear weapon on President Biden’s watch? Yes. While Democrats might blame President Donald Trump’s abrogation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan...
In recent weeks, tensions in the Middle East appeared ready to spill over into a larger conflict. The U.S. turned around an aircraft carrier...
A year past the U.S. strike on Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, in the waning days of the Trump administration, Washington and Tehran remain stuck...