Israeli Security Experts Agree: The Trump-Netanyahu Approach Has Failed Disastrously

'It Was a Strategic Mistake'

Commentators and Editorial Boards Back Diplomacy, Oppose ‘Maximum Pressure’

Diplomacy Works. 'Maximum Pressure' Does Not.

Understanding the Risks of U.S.-Iran Escalation amid the Gaza Conflict

Terrible as the Gaza war’s toll has already been, it would get worse if sustained fighting were to erupt between the U.S. and Iran or its Middle East allies.

Striking Iran Shouldn’t Be on the Table

So much of the commentary suggests that a forceful U.S. military operation inside Iran would scare the ayatollahs straight. Yet the evidence in support of that conclusion is weak to nonexistent. Iran has retaliated to previous U.S. and Israeli attacks repeatedly.

Biden Calibrates His Response as a Slow-Motion Crisis Arrives

What’s the most reliable pathway to curbing the Iran-fomented violence that followed the Gaza war? It’s to bring that conflict to a quick end.