As the “will they or won’t they” speculation around a potential U.S. return to the JCPOA—colloquially known as the Iran deal—reaches a fever pitch, it’s impossible not to be rocketed ...
https://ottomansandzionists.com/2022/09/01/everyone-on-both-sides-should-calm-down-about-the-jcpoa/
As nuclear talks between Iran and world powers minus the U.S. reconvene in Vienna, Israeli leaders and the Israeli security establishment are consumed with Iran. The related issues of Iran’s nu...
https://ottomansandzionists.com/2021/12/09/the-urgent-and-the-important/
Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, widely viewed as Iran’s most important nuclear scientist and the key figure in its nuclear weapons effort, was killed last Friday in an attack that has been attributed to I...
https://ottomansandzionists.com/2020/12/03/what-is-israel-up-to-with-iran/
From the day President Trump set foot in the White House, Israeli leaders have argued that he is the best friend they have ever had. Many of the Trump administration’s policies, from recognitio...
https://ottomansandzionists.com/2019/08/29/trumps-leverage-over-netanyahu/
The summit in Singapore between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un was the foreign policy news that overshadowed everything else this week. Despite the Korean Peninsula being lit...
https://ottomansandzionists.com/2018/06/14/what-the-north-korea-summit-might-mean-for-israel/
The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, universally and colloquially known as the Iran deal, was never a perfect agreement. It relied on too many assumptions about Iran’s future behavior, purpo...
https://ottomansandzionists.com/2018/05/09/how-to-evaluate-trumps-withdrawal-from-the-iran-deal/
As should be clear following Israel’s strike last week against a Syrian missile factory in Masyaf, Israel’s Syria dilemma is only growing worse rather than getting better. Iran’s presence i...
https://ottomansandzionists.com/2017/09/14/how-to-tread-lightly-with-a-superpower/
If you thought that the seemingly never-ending battle between the United States and Israel to shape how the Iran deal is viewed was finally over, you’d be wrong. At a press conference last Thur...
https://ottomansandzionists.com/2016/08/11/the-fight-to-frame-the-iran-deal/
There are two huge pieces of news today that interest me, and while the one I really want to write about is the New Horizons spacecraft reaching Pluto and sending back amazing pictures and data o...
https://ottomansandzionists.com/2015/07/14/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-of-the-iran-nuclear-deal/
I doubt there’s anyone reading this who didn’t watch (or at least read the transcript of) Bibi Netanyahu’s speech themselves yesterday, and everyone has their own well-informed opinions by ...
https://ottomansandzionists.com/2015/03/04/my-quick-takeaway-from-bibis-speech/