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The Next U.S. President Should Rejoin the Iran Nuclear Deal
Commentary
To the surprise of many analysts (us included), Iran has continued to abide by the 2015 nuclear deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, despite the Tru...
By Ilan Goldenberg & Eric Brewer
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If Trump Wants to Get Out of Syria, He Should Strike a Deal With Russia
Commentary
U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw American forces from Syria is a mistake. But if he insists on going ahead with it, the best option for the United States is ...
By Ilan Goldenberg & Nicholas Heras
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America’s Yo-Yo Diet in the Middle East
Commentary
President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw all U.S. troops from Syria is a mistake. But unlike so many of his other ill-considered moves, this one is completely conventiona...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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The Iran Nuclear Negotiations
Podcast
Ambassador Wendy Sherman discusses her unlikely career, which began as an advocate for women's issues. Then, she went into politics, and eventually wound up at the State Depar...
By Ilan Goldenberg & Wendy Sherman
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Give Saudi Arabia a Take It or Leave It Deal
Commentary
President Donald Trump released a statement on November 20 in which he supported Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s (MBS) claim that he had nothing to do with t...
By Ilan Goldenberg & Kaleigh Thomas
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To punish the Saudis, protect the Jamal Khashoggis still at work
Commentary
Senate leaders who emerged from a closed-door briefing by CIA Director Gina Haspel on Tuesday were unequivocal: Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was directly inv...
By Vance Serchuk
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When Middle East Peace Almost Happened
Podcast
When Bill Clinton took over as President in 1992, his then Middle East advisor Martin Indyk told him he has a chance to partner with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin to se...
By Ilan Goldenberg & Martin Indyk
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American Foreign Policy Could Use More Prudence
Commentary
During George H. W. Bush’s single term in the White House, the Berlin Wall fell and Germany reunified peacefully, the Warsaw Pact dissolved, the Soviet Union crumbled and the ...
By Richard Fontaine
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Ending Gaza's Perpetual Crisis
Video
Ilan Goldenberg joins the other authors of a new report by the Center for a New American Security and the Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings, "Ending Gaza’s Perpetual ...
By Ilan Goldenberg, Victoria Nuland, Hady Amr, Natan Sachs & Kevin Huggard
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The United States Should Give Saudi Arabia a Choice
Commentary
You know the Trump administration’s efforts to salvage its approach toward Saudi Arabia are in trouble when Sen. Lindsey Graham, one of the president’s closest allies, threate...
By Ilan Goldenberg & Derek Chollet
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Recommendations for US policy toward Gaza
Podcast
In between spikes of violence, the people of the Gaza Strip live in a state of perpetual crisis—a man-made humanitarian disaster of severe urban crowding, staggering une...
By Ilan Goldenberg, Hady Amr, Natan Sachs & Adrianna Pita
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Iran is trying to score a political win against the US: Expert
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By "isolating" the U.S. from the other countries in the nuclear deal, Iran is winning politically but losing economically, says Ilan Goldenberg of Center for a New American Se...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Sanctions Alone Won’t Alter Iran’s Behavior in the Middle East
Commentary
The U.S. Treasury Department recently designated a network of 22 Iranian businesses as supporters of terrorism, including several banks and major commodities companies, imposi...
By Kaleigh Thomas
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Jamal Khashoggi’s Murder Hurt American Interests, Not Just American Values
Commentary
Most observers have seen the murder of Jamal Khashoggi as the latest example of an age-old tension in U.S. foreign policy: the pursuit of national interests versus the defense...
By Richard Fontaine
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Ilan Goldenberg on Israel Policy Forum Podcast
Podcast
Ilan Goldenberg, Israel Policy Forum's Policy Adviser and a Senior Fellow and Director at the Center for a New American Security's Middle East Security Program joins Evan Gott...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Merging the U.S. Consulate and Embassy in Jerusalem Is a Mistake
Commentary
While the world was rightly focused on the murder of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, an entirely different consulate—that of the United Stat...
By Hady Amr & Ilan Goldenberg
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Revealing Intelligence on Jamal Khashoggi
Commentary
Washington Post Global Opinions columnist Jamal Khashoggi has been missing since entering the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul, Turkey on Oct. 2. As of this writing, Turkis...
By Carrie Cordero
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Testimony before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Middle East and North Africa Subcommittee
Submitted Written Testimony...
By Nicholas Heras
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A Year After 'Rocket Man' Speech, Trump Returns To U.N. With Eyes On Iran
Commentary
When President Trump delivers his speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, one phrase is unlikely to show up: "rocket man." A lot has changed since Trump used...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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The Myth of Authoritarian Competence
Commentary
For nearly six months, one of the world’s top economies has been gripped by crisis, sparking fears of wider financial contagion. Since the spring, the Turkish currency has cra...
By Vance Serchuk
