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How to Tame Iran and Win a Nuclear Deal The Trump administration should remain firm with the pressure campaign, continue trying to get the Europeans on board a harsher response to Iran’s aggressions, carve out a clear negotiations strategy, and be wary of blinking first.

As the crunch of the Trump administration’s maximum pressure campaign is being acutely felt by the regime in Iran, the Iranians have been lashing out in recent months—in the Persian Gulf and regarding their nuclear commitments according to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).

In renegotiating, it makes little sense to lay out what Iran 'will never accept' before it meets its full commitments.

Tehran has been signaling through its behavior over the past year that it does not want to leave the JCPOA because any other option will be worse from its point of view.

The U.S. is not initiating hostilities. It is not bullying Iran. It is responding to Tehran’s recent threats – and to years of lying and cheating about its nuclear capabilities. The aim of Trump's maximum pressure on Iran is negotiations, not war.

The Trump administration—like the administrations that came before it—is currently unwilling to consider a phased approach. And therein lies its biggest mistake.

This is the first time there has been an inspection at a facility that was named in the nuclear archive, but it is six months after the facility coordinates were revealed.

Tehran's nuclear ambitions, which are documented in archives, can only be delayed through insistent inspection activity by the international community.

While the INF decisions do not impinge directly on the Middle East, the implications for the arms control regime, including the NPT, raise the question of what all of this means for Israel and for strategic stability in the Middle East. Israel certainly does not have an interest in a nuclear and ballistic missile arms race in the Middle East. Nor does it have an interest in a...

The latest steps in the ongoing European effort to obstruct the Trump administration’s pressure campaign vis-à-vis Iran include the €18 million “support package.”