Now comes the hard part for U.S. President Joe Biden’s Iraq policy. At the White House last week, he told Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi that U.S. combat troops would be withdrawn from Iraq by year’s end. At the same…
U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan has attributed the Biden administration’s push for talks with Tehran to the need to “put Iran’s nuclear program in a box.” Iran has added urgency to the White House’s efforts by announcing ever greater…
JINSA is pleased to announce that Ron Dermer, the former Israeli ambassador to the United States who helped guide U.S.-Israel relations through a critically important period and played a pivotal role in several historic diplomatic achievements, has joined The Jewish Institute for…
U.S. President Joe Biden recently ordered airstrikes against Iranian-backed militias, but that failed to stop them from rapidly escalating their rocket and drone campaign to drive the United States out of the Middle East. Last week the U.S. embassy in…
This summer, Americans are flocking to Greece. President Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken should take the hint and consider making a trip of their own. It would be as good for America as it would be for Greece.…
The Islamic Republic of Iran likes to argue that the United States is not a reliable diplomatic partner. It is therefore no surprise that after hardliner Ebrahim Raisi was elected as the country’s next president, Iran added a new precondition…
John Hannah is a Senior Fellow at JINSA’s Gemunder Center for Defense and Strategy.
In less than a month, hard-line conservative cleric Ebrahim Raisi will succeed Hassan Rouhani as President of Iran, after sailing to victory in a highly uncompetitive and “predetermined” sham of an election. The victory for Raisi, however, is not likely…
Last month in Berlin, international diplomats, including US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, met with Libya’s transitional Government of National Unity to promote much-needed political progress in the country following years of civil war. Ahead of the meeting, Blinken outlined…
‘No deal is better than a bad deal,” then-Secretary of State John Kerry opined during nuclear negotiations for the Obama administration with Iran before ultimately clinching the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action in 2015. Now, as discussions about returning to the…