Just yesterday, the U.S. State Department issued its annual report outlining country reports on terrorism to provide a global snapshot of the threat landscape| The Soufan Center
The incoming Biden administration will likely change U.S. Middle East policy marginally, not dramatically. The limitations of the Biden administration’s ability to alter policy are a function of the U.S. public’s increasing reticence to support U.S. military interventions or the expenditure of significant U.S. diplomatic and economic resources in the region| The Soufan Center
In 2011, Congress sought to reduce Iran’s exportation of oil by passing a law, which was ultimately enacted, that imposes penalties for transactions with Iran’s Central Bank, the entity in control of Iran’s oil payments| The Soufan Center
On June 20, 2019, President Trump authorized and later reversed his approval for a U.S. air and missile strike on Iranian missile and radar batteries. The strikes were designed in retaliation for the Iranian downing, one day earlier, of a U.S. unmanned aerial surveillance aircraft over the Persian Gulf| The Soufan Center
Senior members of the Houthi family formed the ‘Ansar Allah’ (Partisans of God) movement in northern Yemen in 2004 as a rebellion against central authority, in line with their Zaydi Shia ideology against corruption and unjust rulership| The Soufan Center
In Vienna, Austria, the United States and three European partners (France, the United Kingdom, and Germany), joined by Russia and China, have been negotiating with Iran over the past year to restore full U.S. and Iranian compliance with the 2015 multilateral Iran nuclear agreement| The Soufan Center
Iranians will go to the polls on Friday, June 28, in a special election to replace President Ibrahim Raisi, who, along with Iran’s Foreign Minister, was killed in an accidental helicopter crash in northern Iran on May 19.| The Soufan Center