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U.S. Terror Delisting Opens Syria to Gulf Investors
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“The U.S. can’t compel private businesses to actually do business in Syria,” [Alex] Zerden said. “They need to make their own independent risk-based decisions about what their...
By Alex Zerden
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Why Iran’s Limited Economic Relief Was Easy Come, Easy Go
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Alex Zerden, a former Treasury official and founder of Capitol Peak Strategies, said the sanctions reflect the political dynamics at play. “It appears that the President was f...
By Alex Zerden
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Trump Deal Gives Iran 100s of Billions More than Obama’s Nuclear Pact He Slammed, in Return for Far Less
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“A lot has been sacrificed up front just to get the Strait of Hormuz open again,” said Daniel Schneiderman, an adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security ...
By Daniel Schneiderman
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Can the US Waive Sanctions on Iranian Oil?
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Regardless, “we’re a long way away from full unwinding [of sanctions] and US companies entering the Iranian market,” Capitol Peak Strategies’ Alex Zerden, a former Treasury De...
By Alex Zerden
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Middle East Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Iran’s Oil Lifeline Outlasted the U.S. Assault, Strengthening Its Hand“Iran over the years and across U.S. administrations developed sophisticated sanctions evasion techniques to receive revenue from selling oil,” said Alex Zerden, a former Trea...
By Alex Zerden
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Trump Weighs Releasing Billions to Iran After Blasting Past Payments
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“Based on our modeling, a lot of these potential bargaining chips look similar to those available during the Obama, Trump I and Biden administrations,” said Alex Zerden, an ad...
By Alex Zerden
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Who Calls the Shots? Trump and Netanyahu Clash over Diverging Goals in Middle East War
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“Iran and the Trump administration see the Iran and Lebanon theatres as united, and Israel sees them as distinct,” said Richard Fontaine, chief executive of the Center for a N...
By Richard Fontaine
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A Deal with Iran May Need Some Delusional Thinking to Work
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“The fundamentals of diplomatic negotiations often require a suspension of disbelief,” said Alex Zerden, a former Treasury Department diplomat who has worked for both Republic...
By Alex Zerden
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Iran War Soured Gulf Arabs on Iraq. Can New Leader in Baghdad Win Them Back?
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“It isn’t clear what policies Zaidi would have because he’s never held public office before nor has he ever run in elections and campaigned on any specific policy,” says Hamze...
By Hamzeh Hadad
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UAE Exit from OPEC Signals Closer Alignment with U.S. Interests, Experts Say
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“The exit was a surprise in timing (at least to me), but in some ways has been brewing for some time,” wrote Rachel Ziemba, adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New Ameri...
By Rachel Ziemba
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Iraqi President Nominates Ali Al Zaidi as PM-Designate
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Political analyst Hamzeh Hadad said it appeared that Zaidi "has the tools" as a banker and TV channel owner "to help him sway people and politicians"....
By Hamzeh Hadad
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Cyber, Nuclear, Invasion? What Is Trump Threatening in Iran
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"The U.S. has employed a significant number of its most advanced capabilities in the war -- air assets, cruise missiles, advanced stealth bombers, one-way attack drones," said...
By Daniel Schneiderman
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Indo-Pacific Security / Middle East Security
Trump Finds His Offramp with Iran. But the Causes of War Remain Unresolved.“Iran remains in the control of the Strait, which was not the case before the war,” said Richard Fontaine, the chief executive of the Center for a New American Security, a Was...
By Richard Fontaine
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Middle East Security / Technology & National Security
The U.S. Is Waging AI-Assisted War on Iran. Here’s How"For somebody who spent years talking about how we're moving too slow, I'm now concerned about how fast we're moving," said Jack Shanahan, a retired lieutenant general and adu...
By Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan
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Defense / Middle East Security
Trump Has Options to Invade Iran—All of Them Would Cost Dearly"The big limitation that I see, really, to any of this is the fact that Iran's geography is not favorable to invasion, and it's been a fact of Iran's internal defense for mill...
By Carlton Haelig
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Transatlantic Security / Middle East Security
Whose War Is It? Trump Eyes Iran Talks as Israel Hints at Long CampaignAnother deadline day, another ultimatum, another surprise turn from the US president. The same Donald Trump who may or may not send ground troops to try to secure the Strait o...
By Jim Townsend
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Middle East Security / Technology & National Security
Iran War Complicates U.S. Push to Export AI to Persian Gulf“I would expect the investment there to ramp down slightly, but it does sound like the UAE and Saudi Arabia are still very keen on building out these AI data centers,” said Ja...
By Janet Egan
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USS Gerald Ford Back at Crete Naval Base: AFP
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"Taking the Ford off the board for any significant length of time means less US support to war efforts," said Daniel Schneiderman, director of global policy programs at Penn W...
By Daniel Schneiderman
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Middle East Security / Energy, Economics & Security
U.S. Lifts Sanctions on Some Iranian Oil as Energy Prices SoarZiemba, adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, said she did not think the U.S would want money from oil sales to go to Iran's government - but it cou...
By Rachel Ziemba
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Iraq Was Enjoying Newfound Peace and Prosperity. Then Came the Iran War.
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“The way in which the U.S. and Israel killed the supreme leader of Iran in its opening salvo, the symbolism of him being an ayatollah, a religious leader, had an impact” on th...
By Hamzeh Hadad
