It would be a heavy lift, but revising the Iran nuclear deal would have some significant upsides, according to scholars at the University of Maryland.
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The Iran nuclear deal will struggle to survive the damage done when Trump pulled the US out on May 8. So will US-Europe relations.
Just as Iran’s centre ground was collapsing under political pressure, Donald Trump offered the hardliners a gift.
To understand how Syria has become the theatre for proxy wars between international forces, one has to return to the Arab uprisings and Syria’s role as an outlier.
It largely depends on whether Europe will decide to ignore (and pay the price for) US sanctions.
Does the work of the international agency responsible for verifying whether Iran was in compliance with the deal matter to the US?
Ever since the shocking spectacle of the Iranian Revolution and hostage crisis, American conservatives have reserved a special disdain for the Islamic Republic.
Iran is a dangerous mischief-maker in the Middle East – but scrapping the nuclear deal will probably make things worse.
A mummy unearthed during construction in Iran may be the body of a former shah. For the Islamic regime, the discovery is an unwelcome reminder of Iran’s secular past. For protesters, it holds promise.
Israel’s prime minister failed to undermine the validity of Iran’s nuclear deal, and instead ended up demonstrating just how important it is.
The new secretary of state once called the Iran nuclear deal ‘unconscionable.’ If he supports Trump’s instinct to scrap the agreement on May 12, it could unleash violence across the volatile Mideast.
Reportedly passed over for secretary of state because of his moustache, John Bolton has made it into Donald Trump’s administration at last.
Trump’s pick to lead the State Department believes Iran is ‘intent on destroying America.’ But ending the Iran nuclear deal could unleash a violent chain reaction, a Mideast scholar says.
A former US Department of Defense and State Department official explains why a hard-line approach on North Korea will likely fail, as it did with Iran.
Surveys of Iranian public opinion from the University of Maryland suggests that Trump’s strategy on the nuclear deal – no matter how you interpret it – is based on wishful thinking.
The president hasn’t pulled out of the agreement but decertifying it has serious implications.
Aside from vague threats of violence and suggestions he could ‘renegotiate’ the Iran nuclear agreement, Donald Trump has provided little in the way of coherent or viable policy options.
Trump seems to think all potential nuclear agitators are alike. He’s wrong, and perhaps disastrously so.
The deal will give a much-needed boost to Iran’s economy and lend important support to Rouhani’s government.
Shared economic and security interests have kept Saudi Arabia and the US close over the decades despite dramatic differences in the way the two countries are governed.
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Professor, Clinton Institute, University College Dublin
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Professor in The Division of Global Affairs and The Department of Political Science, Rutgers University - Newark
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Henry J. Leir Professor of Practice in Economics of the Middle East, Brandeis University
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Professor of Middle East & Central Asian Politics, Deputy Director (International), Alfred Deakin Research Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University
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Director at the Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland, University of Maryland
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Associate, German Institute for International and Security Affairs
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Senior lecturer in History and International Relations, Curtin University
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Professor in Contemporary European History, University of Stirling
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Professor of International Relations, Lancaster University
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Lecturer in Politics and International Studies, The Open University
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Professor of International Relations and Security, University of Bradford
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Professor, Department of Government, University of Essex
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Senior lecturer, National School of Arts, Australian Catholic University
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Lecturer, Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington
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Scientist-in-Residence and Adjunct Professor, Middlebury
