#IRAN

Heshmat Alavi

HeshmatAlavi

THREAD1)This has been making a lot of noise among #Iran’s netizens.Hamas co-founder Mahmoud al-Zahder said in a recent interview that in 2006 Qassem Soleimani gave them $22 million in cash.This

George Croner

GeorgeCroner

Your parallels with Iran-Contra are well-taken. I worked on the Iran-Contra interagency group that coordinated the review and release of information to the Tower Commission, the Intel Committees, and the

Mark Dubowitz

mdubowitz

China-Iran: The key to making sure the China-Iran deal never reaches its potential is to continue a maximum pressure campaign of secondary sanctions enforcement against any Chinese bank or company

Trita Parsi

tparsi

Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, one of Iran's most important nuclear officials, has been assassinated in Tehran. This is what we know /THREAD/:1. Israel has assassinated numerous Iranian nuclear scientists in the past

Robert Malley

Rob_Malley

When you misdiagnose the problem, you're also going to err on the remedy.Thread:https://twitter.com/SecPompeo/status/1303367064892116998 2/ 2.5 years into "max pressure" policy, Iran's nuclear program is less, not more res

Michael Knights

Mikeknightsiraq

In the sequel to "Drones Over Riyadh", here is "Rockets over Erbil" - Thread to follow @WashInstitute https://bit.ly/3ufz1nA The piece makes a simple point: the complexity of dealing with this

Dionis Cenusa

DionisCenusa

#EurasianUnion: Today’s meeting of the heads of states of Union’s members (the 5) and the observer state (Moldova) has some interesting issues on the table: 1) revised draft of the

Mary Kaszynski

MaryKaszynski

THREAD on this cool scooplet by @lrozen. Tomorrow @MunSecConf Biden may announce the US is back in the Iran nuclear deal. What *might* that mean?https://diplomatic.substack.com/p/source-biden-could-tell-munich-security Biden rejoining the n

Masih Alinejad 🏳️

AlinejadMasih

IMPORTANT THREAD1-The Islamic Republic of Iran has executed journalist #RuhollahZam. However, the reaction from the Council of Europe and European Parliament hasn't gone beyond mere verbal condemnations. Many Iranian civil

Nicholas Grossman

NGrossman81

Iran's nuke program is more advanced than 4 years ago. Trump let Iran out of nuclear restrictions for no good reason, and damaged the Western alliance in the process.Iran is

Ellie Geranmayeh

EllieGeranmayeh

Thread: @bopinion Ed. Board propose #Biden should prioritise regional negotiations btwn #Iran+neighbours & hold back from rejoining nuclear deal. No doubt regional talks urgently needed as parallel track - but

Ali Vaez | على واعظ

AliVaez

The Biden admin’s lagging pace on Iran policy now threatens to undo the JCPOA, which was already faltering. In this piece, I describe a 3-phase synchronized process to bring both

Sina Azodi

Azodiac83

Thread on Deputy FM @araghchi remarks, via @SaraMassoumi :"Dark forces have committed themselves to prevent the revival of #JCPOA. Mr. Borrell has spoken of replacing "maximum pressure" with "Maximum diplomacy."

Michael P Pregent

MPPregent

The Biden team will try to avoid linking Iran to the Erbil rocket attack - they will downplay the role IRGC-QF militias had in the attack. They will defer to

Ellie Geranmayeh

EllieGeranmayeh

1/ @TheEconomist Leaders are wrong in thinking: 'Were #Biden to jump back into the nuclear deal quickly, it would mean lifting the sharpest sanctions & giving up much of this

Trita Parsi

tparsi

So diplomacy on how to revive the #IranDeal seems to have hit a roadblock even before it began. Iran & the US are publically dueling about who has to take

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