The biggest, if not the only, remaining sticking point in Iran nuclear deal negotiations is a bilateral issue between the U.S. and Iran: the Iranians are still demanding the United States remove Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) from the…
Russia just opened a new front in the Ukraine war, more than 600 miles west of Kyiv—in Vienna, where world powers have been negotiating a nuclear deal with Iran. The contours of that agreement were already dangerous enough. Now, Moscow…
WRITTEN TESTIMONY BY ALAN O. MAKOVSKY SENIOR FELLOW, CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS HOUSE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS, SUBCOMMITTEE ON EUROPE, ENERGY, THE ENVIRONMENT AND CYBER AND SUBCOMMITTEE MIDDLE EAST, NORTH AFRICA AND GLOBAL COUNTERTERRORISM HEARING ON “OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES IN…
A new nuclear agreement with Iran once again looks imminent in the wake of three key developments in the last 24 hours: Russia said it’s received the guarantees it asked for and is ready to agree to a deal; The…