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Iranian President Rouhani in April visiting the exhibition of nuclear achievements. Credit: Official website of the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran. https://president.ir/en/120598.

Iran’s uranium gambit is a dangerous negotiating tactic

By Naysan Rafati | Analysis, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

Iran elections and the nuclear deal: Why Biden can’t lose, no matter who wins

By Sina Azodi | Nuclear Weapons, Opinion, Voices of Tomorrow

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressing a ceremony to mark Remembrance Day for the Fallen of Israel's Wars on April 14, 2021. Credit: Israeli Government Press Office/Kobi Gideon

Israeli public opinion makes a US-Iran nuclear deal urgent

By Doreen Horschig | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Voices of Tomorrow

The A1 Verse: Blackout at Natanz

By Thomas Gaulkin | Nuclear Risk, Special Topics

The ambassador of the Permanent Mission of the People's Republic of China to the United Nations, Wang Qun, speaks to journalists in front of the Grand Hotel after the closed-door nuclear talks with Iran in Vienna, where diplomats of the EU, China, Russia and Iran held their talks. The United States participates in discussions in Vienna to try to save the international agreement on Iranian nuclear power. However, they don't meet at the same table as Tehran and it is the Europeans who serve as intermediaries between the two parties. (Photo by JOE KLAMAR/AFP via Getty Images)

Why a quick return to the Iran nuclear deal is needed to avoid a real nuclear crisis

By Seyed Hossein Mousavian | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

President Biden delivers remarks to the virtual Munich Security Conference. Photo by Anna Moneymaker-Pool/Getty Images

Foreign commercial banks: The essential partner in future discussions of the Iran nuclear deal

By Christopher A. Bidwell | Nuclear Weapons

Mohammad Javad Zarif, in 2019

Nine hurdles to reviving the Iran nuclear deal

By Seyed Hossein Mousavian | Nuclear Risk

A clean return to the Iran nuclear deal should be Biden’s first option

By Eric Brewer | Analysis, Nuclear Risk

The 2020 nuclear landscape, in the shadow of a pandemic

By John Krzyzaniak | Nuclear Risk

The funeral procession for Mohsen Fakhrizadeh

Four ways the killing of Iran’s nuclear scientist will undercut US national security

By John Krzyzaniak | Analysis, Nuclear Risk

Donald Trump iran

The A1 Verse: Iran is not a verb

By Thomas Gaulkin | Nuclear Weapons, Special Topics

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris at a fundraiser in August 2020.

Here’s what to expect from Biden on top nuclear weapons issues

By Sara Z. Kutchesfahani | Columnists, Nuclear Risk