Iran Democracy Monitor No. 209
The practical effects of "maximum pressure";
A new campaign of sabotage;
Iran's protest wave reemerges;
Iran's coronavirus crisis, continued
The practical effects of "maximum pressure";
A new campaign of sabotage;
Iran's protest wave reemerges;
Iran's coronavirus crisis, continued
A new China-Iran economic and military agreement and this fall's expiration of the global arms embargo on Iran could dramatically upend international relations by expanding China's global reach, empowering Iran to threaten America's regional allies, undercutting U.S. efforts to pressure both nations and further destabilizing the Middle East.
The Taliban takes the offensive;
The Islamic State shows new signs of life;
Is America reducing its footprint in the Sinai?;
Turkey to Europe: Take back your radicals
You wouldn't know it from the popular press, but the Trump administration's campaign of "maximum pressure" against Iran is working.
Since April of 2019, when the idea was first floated publicly, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu's plan to annex portions of the West Bank and Jordan River Valley has become widely unpopular.