Category: khamenei
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What really happened to Fordow? Three possible futures for Iran’s nuclear program after US strikes.
As the Israel-Iran war gives way to an uneasy cease-fire, the overriding question of whether the US-Israeli military offensive will prove a strategic success largely hinges on the fate of a sprawling nuclear-enrichment facility buried deep within a mountain. In support of Israel’s objective to thwart Iran’s development of nuclear weapons, the United States bombed…
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Trump’s Iran Deal Withdrawal Comes Back to Haunt Him
As the dust continues to settle after the U.S. airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, which were meant to destroy Tehran’s ability to build nuclear weapons but did not apparently succeed entirely, one question looms above all: What did the United States gain from walking away from the nuclear deal with Iran seven years ago? The…
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Did Trump Just Lift Sanctions on Iranian Oil?
Ignoring Tehran’s oil shipments has been informal policy for years. What if Washington made it official? An illustrated portrait of Agathe DemaraisAgathe Demarais By Agathe Demarais, a columnist at Foreign Policy and a senior policy fellow on geoeconomics at the European Council on Foreign Relations. Parts of the Shahran fuel depot on the outskirts of…
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Is Trump Repeating Obama’s Iran Mistake and Bush’s Iraq Disaster?
Civil War Would Devastate Iran, but That Becomes a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy If the U.S. Doesn’t Push for Managed Transition President Donald Trump is adamant that Israel and Iran must end their 12-day war. He reportedly telephoned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to demand that Israel recall bombers en route to targets in Iran as Israel sought to…
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Iran’s nuclear programme: How India can play a big role
India is perhaps the only country trusted by the United States, Israel, and Iran A shaky ceasefire may now exist after 12 days of Israeli airstrikes on Iran, Iranian missile barrages against Israel, and the U.S. use of bunker buster bombs against Iran’s top nuclear sites, but President Donald Trump’s core demand remains: Iranian Supreme…
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The D Brief: WH, DOD upset by Iran assessment; Comity at NATO summit; Military mission expands in US; AI’s latest natsec problem; And a bit more.
The White House is upset about skepticism over the effectiveness of its Iran strikes carried out by B-2 stealth bombers over the weekend. The aircraft dropped 14 special-purpose munitions intended to penetrate the mountain complex at Iran’s Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant and destroy Iran’s ability to enrich enough uranium to create a nuclear weapon. But…
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Iran’s supreme leader makes first public statement since ceasefire, saying Tehran ‘delivered a hand slap to America’s face’
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Thursday his country had “delivered a hand slap to America’s face” and warned against any further U.S. attacks in his first public comments since a ceasefire was declared with Israel. Khamenei spoke in a video broadcast on Iranian state television, his first appearance since June 19, looking and sounding more tired than…
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Accor Group CEO Sébastien Bazin: ‘Anybody who’s waiting for the day after tomorrow is just an idiot’
Good morning. Accor Group CEO Sébastien Bazin says he left the financial industry for a “super narcissistic” reason: “After 25 years in finance and being successful enough, I had no idea whether I was lucky or smart.” Turns out he’s smart, having expanded the Paris-based hotel group from a portfolio of 13 economy to mid-scale…
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Why Russia Is Sitting Out This Round of the Israel-Iran Conflict
A decade ago, Russia seemed to be having its moment in the Middle East. But from today’s perspective, that moment appears distinctly momentary. To the surprise of many, Moscow did not step in to prevent the downfall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in December 2024. Now, Russian President Vladimir Putin has been careful to appear…
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Iran’s Strategic Dilemma: Capitulation or Parity?
Defeated, yet not vanquished, the Islamic Republic of Iran has been humiliated and strategically degraded by Israel but is enduring. Iran’s strategic decision makers now confront a core strategic dilemma: whether to acquiesce to a coerced dismantling of the country’s nuclear infrastructure and missile capabilities or resist and pursue strategic parity with Israel through nuclear…
