Hillary Mann Leverett

For Iran’s re­gion­al co­op­er­a­tion of­fer to work, more Mid­dle East­ern na­tions need to achieve for­eign pol­i­cy in­de­pen­dence.

Don­ald Trump is fol­low­ing the very for­eign pol­i­cy that he used to crit­i­cise as a pres­i­den­tial can­di­date.

Trump’s de­fi­ance of or­tho­dox US for­eign pol­i­cy isn’t dan­ger­ous. Rather it’s his fail­ure to form a co­her­ent al­ter­na­tive.

The US should stop en­abling Is­rael’s un­fet­tered free­dom of mil­i­tary ini­tia­tive.

The Arab rev­o­lu­tions have not changed for­eign pol­i­cy-mak­ing in Wash­ing­ton.

The West is mis­cal­cu­lat­ing Ro­hani and fail to un­der­stand the sys­tem that gov­erns Iran­ian pol­i­tics and pol­i­cy-mak­ing.

The for­mer chief nu­clear ne­go­tia­tor’s skill at forg­ing coali­tions was key to his vic­to­ry in Iran’s pres­i­den­tial race.

As long as Wash­ing­ton re­fus­es to recog­nise Iran’s right to en­rich, no sub­stan­tial agree­ment will be pos­si­ble.

The con­tin­u­ing dead­lock with Iran over its nu­clear pro­gramme is due to a unipo­lar vi­sion of world or­der.

Pres­i­dent Oba­ma is repli­cat­ing the self-dam­ag­ing poli­cies of his pre­de­ces­sors in a re­gion vi­tal to US in­ter­ests.