Is there anything more shameful and embarrassing than watching the Trump Administration warn Iran not to breach the nuclear thresholds in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action of 2015, the agreement the President abrogated last year while renewing a host of sanctions against the regime? Of course they were going to move forward with their nuclear program at some point, if for no other reason than to pressure America to scale back it's economic pressure. And, yes, it's true t

President Trump's top intelligence officials contradicted the basic underlying assumptions of his foreign policy today in testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee. While Director of National Intelligence, Dan Coats, did echo many of Trump's warnings about China, he drew a starkly different picture than the President on N. Korea, Iran and ISIS, ABC News: "America's top intelligence officials on Tuesday appeared to challenge some of President Donald Trump's most prominent

President Trump's trade war with China continued to heat up yesterday as the Commerce Department announced that the US will impose a 25% tariff on another $16 billion worth of Chinese goods starting August 23. China responded by announcing a 25% tariff on an equal amount of US goods that will go into effect the same day. But China also said yesterday that they will ignore new US sanctions on Iran and continue to do business with them despite President Trump's warning that nat

When America took steps to withdraw from the Iran nuclear agreement in May we pointed out that the Trump Administration didn't seem to have a plan to get the "better deal" that they claimed they were seeking. They still don't. If anything, they simply hope that the economic pain from renewed sanctions will force Iran back to the bargaining table or lead to unrest and eventually a revolution in Iran. Neither are likely and its quite possible that our withdrawal will strengthen

Iranian hardliners who had long argued that America couldn't be trusted to live up its international obligations joined US Neocons in celebrating President Trump's decision to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal. They will now push Iranian President Hassan Rouhani to take a harder line with Washington and make it difficult for him to negotiate any new agreement to limit Iran's nuclear program. The Guardian: Sadeq Zibakalam, a prominent political commentator and professor of pol

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took the stage yesterday to discuss what the Israeli government had said would be "significant" new developments regarding Iran's nuclear program. However, what Netanyahu laid out had been public knowledge for a decade; Iran, despite earlier statements to the contrary, did indeed have a nuclear weapons program prior to its signing of the Iran Nuclear deal [the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, JCPOA] in 2015. Actually, America and