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October 15, 2025

Iran’s nuclear calculus in an unsettled Middle East

Iran’s nuclear trajectory is more like a cautious glide along a familiar route than a leap into the unknown, made up of tactical, reversible steps aimed at buying time rather than fundamentally changing the project. 

In New York, Iranian officials quietly explored whether a brief delay to the re-imposition of UN sanctions (‘snapback’) could be negotiated on the sidelines of the General Assembly if negotiations addressed their stockpile enriched to 60 percent. 

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Feb 28, 2020
A Turkish soldier stands in front of a military vehicles convoy east of Idlib city in northwestern Syria on February 20, 2020 amid ongoing regime offensive on the last major rebel bastion in the country's northwest.

Syria: What the US could do

Feb 24, 2020
Yemeni Deputy Prime Minister Ahmed Saeed al-Khanbashi (R) and Southern Transitional Council (STC) representative Nasser al-Habci (L) are seen during a signing ceremony of 'Riyadh Agreement' between the Yemeni government and the United Arab Emirates (UAE)-backed separatist forces, Southern Transitional Council (STC) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on November 05, 2019.

Obstacles to the implementation of the Riyadh Agreement

Feb 24, 2020
Displaced Syrians wait in a queue as an NGO delivers bread as they wait to receive humanitarian aid in a stadium which has been turned into a makeshift refugee shelter on February 19, 2020 in Idlib, Syria.

The situation in Idlib is going from bad to worse

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