The Trump administration tapped Michael Anton, the State Department’s director of policy planning, to lead a team of technical experts in negotiations with the Iranian regime about its nuclear program. According to Politico, Anton will lead a team of around…
Excerpt below: If he continues his current negotiating approach with Iran, President Trump risks being the second coming of Barack Obama. Thanks to fantastic Israeli military achievements, Trump inherited unprecedented leverage to drive a hard bargain with Iran over its…
Excerpt below: This past July, Geoffrey Corn, a law professor at Texas Tech and a former judge advocate general in the U.S. Army, joined the Israel Defense Forces on a tour of the Rafah border. Within hours of Hamas’s attack,…
The U.S. military has been bombing Yemen for weeks on end, executing hundreds of strikes this month alone. Why it matters: The standoff between American forces and Houthi rebels backed by Iran risks something President Trump promised to stamp out: endless war. In this case,…
Iran’s public display of Russian-made S-300 components during its April 18 Army Day parade in Tehran has renewed debate over the state of its air defense network and its implications for Israeli Air Force (IAF) operational freedom. While the S-300…
Undersea fiber-optic cables serve as not only the economic and communications backbone of much of the civilian world, but for military operations as well. And while recent incidents in which cables have been cut — accidentally or not — have…
The clock is ticking on President Trump’s two-month timeline to reach a deal with Iran over its nuclear program, with the president signaling optimism ahead of a third round of talks later this week. But it’s still unclear if Trump…
The Trump administration risks repeating the mistakes of Obama and Biden in reaching a deal with Tehran. The United States and Iran have now had two rounds of talks on a potential deal over Iran’s nuclear weapons program, with a…
Saturday’s talks in Rome between the Trump administration and the Islamic Republic of Iran over the rogue regime’s failure to dismantle its illicit nuclear weapons program have raised pressing questions about whether Tehran will adhere to a new deal. Speaking on “The Story…
Note: Original version of this article published on April 19 to the New York Times website (below) was updated and changed on April 20. As Iran and the United States meet again Saturday for diplomatic talks over Tehran’s nuclear activities,…