European Diplomats Seek to Curb Iran Actions in Yemen, Syria 2/20/2018 5:29:03 PM   facebook Google+ ► Print Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi met over the weekend with senior European diplomats in Munich to discuss the conflict in Yemen Talks aim to persuade U.S. President Donald Trump to preserve Iran nuclear deal By Laurence Norman MUNICH, Wall Street Journal, Feb. 19, 2018  - European officials are intensifying their efforts to save the Iranian nuclear deal, opening a new channel to press Tehran to curtail its military involvement in neighboring conflicts just as tensions spiral throughout the Middle East. European diplomats sat down with a senior Iranian official over the weekend on the sidelines of a major security conference in Munich. They hope to check Iranian activity in Yemen, Syria and other parts of the Middle East as a way to show U.S. President Donald Trump that Iranian expansion can be reversed while sticki...

ANALYSIS: Understanding Washington’s fast-evolving Iran policy President Trump after speaking about the Iran deal at the White House in Washington, DC, October 13, 2017. (AFP) Heshmat Alavi, Special to Al Arabiya English Monday, 18 December 2017 Text size  A   A   A On the doorstep of US President Donald Trump’s first National Security Strategy speech, the administration launched an unprecedented campaign of pinpointing the crosshairs on the epicenter of all extremism causing havoc across the Middle East: Iran. This comes following a  Wall Street Journal  article explaining how in the post-ISIS world Washington will begin pinpointing its focus and resources on the larger and more dangerous threat posed by Tehran. ‘Hard look’ The Trump administration has made it clear that a wide array of destructive policies adopted by Tehran have become unacceptable, a clear indication of the end of Iran’s years of windblown successes, thank...

How Trump Can Improve the Iran Deal Ballistic missiles next to a portrait of Iran’s supreme leader in Tehran, Sept. 25. He can decertify the accord as too dangerous to continue while renegotiating its worst aspects. By Mark Dubowitz and  David Albright The Wall Street Journal, September 25, 2017 -  Powerful voices at home and abroad are pressuring President Trump to give his blessing to his predecessor’s nuclear agreement with Iran. Mr. Trump has repeatedly pledged to renegotiate the deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or scrap it altogether. There is a way for him to highlight the agreement’s egregious deficiencies while showing his determination to improve the deal or leave it. We call this strategy “decertify, waive, slap and fix.” The president should follow through on his commitments by refusing to certify the JCPOA under the 2015 Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act. That law requires Mr. Trump to certify every 90 days that I...