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The Iran Deal
The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action regulating the development of Iran’s nuclear program remains the most consequential and high-stakes piece of foreign policy in the geopolitics of the Middle East, and Tablet has covered the treaty from before its inception under Obama, through the Trump years, and now into Iran Deal 2.0 under the Biden/Blinken Administration.
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How Congress Can Nix Biden’s Iran Deal

Regardless of the ‘inherent guarantees’ it is seeking, Iran is wrong to believe that President Biden and Secretary Blinken can keep their promises of protection and largesse for the regime’s worst elements past January 2023

byGabriel Noronha
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The Iran Deal’s Inevitable Sequel

Barack Obama’s plan was never about stopping Iran from obtaining a bomb. It was about realigning American interests in the Middle East in order to remake the Democratic Party at home.

byLee Smith
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Why Iran Is Getting the Bomb

The ‘moderates’ staffing the Biden administration will move quickly to cement Barack Obama’s foreign policy legacy, starting with its most obvious failures

byLee Smith

All The Iran Deal stories

‘In life, as in politics, incompetence can often explain more than bad ideas’
‘In life, as in politics, incompetence can often explain more than bad ideas’
U.S. Special Envoy for Iran Robert Malley, at left, in Manama, Bahrain, on Nov. 19, 2021
U.S. Special Envoy for Iran Robert Malley, at left, in Manama, Bahrain, on Nov. 19, 2021
Barack Obama is briefed by Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni on the strategic balance of power in the Middle East as they sit in an Israeli Air Force helicopter before taking off for the southern town of Sderot on July 23, 2008 from a helipad in Jerusalem.
Barack Obama is briefed by Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni on the strategic balance of power in the Middle East as they sit in an Israeli Air Force helicopter before taking off for the southern town of Sderot on July 23, 2008 from a helipad in Jerusalem.
Medieval Persian manuscript depicting Muhammad leading Abraham, Moses and Jesus in prayer.
Medieval Persian manuscript depicting Muhammad leading Abraham, Moses and Jesus in prayer.
Israeli MP and chairperson of center-right Yesh Atid party, Yair Lapid, delivers a speech (a speech different to the one included in this article) to launch his party's platform during a press conference in Tel Aviv on March 2, 2015 ahead of the March 17 general elections.
Israeli MP and chairperson of center-right Yesh Atid party, Yair Lapid, delivers a speech (a speech different to the one included in this article) to launch his party's platform during a press conference in Tel Aviv on March 2, 2015 ahead of the March 17 general elections.
President Barack Obama, standing with Vice President Joe Biden, conducts a press conference in the East Room of the White House in response to the Iran Nuclear Deal, on July 14, 2015 in Washington, DC. The landmark deal will limit Iran's nuclear program in exchange for relief from international sanctions. The agreement, which comes after almost two years of diplomacy, has also been praised by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani.
President Barack Obama, standing with Vice President Joe Biden, conducts a press conference in the East Room of the White House in response to the Iran Nuclear Deal, on July 14, 2015 in Washington, DC. The landmark deal will limit Iran's nuclear program in exchange for relief from international sanctions. The agreement, which comes after almost two years of diplomacy, has also been praised by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani.