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Dec 9, 2024 | 
ecfr.eu | Richard Overy |Julien Barnes-Dacey |Ellie Geranmayeh |Mark Leonard
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
armscontrol.org | Tong Zhao |Thomas Countryman |Ellie Geranmayeh |Jenny Town
December 2024When Donald Trump begins his second term as U.S. president on January 20, he will assume control of an arsenal of 5,044 nuclear weapons and responsibility for guiding U.S. policy toward nine nuclear-armed states, one state that is dangerously close to becoming nuclear-capable and several conflicts that potentially could escalate to nuclear-weapons use.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
armscontrol.org | Ellie Geranmayeh
December 2024By Ellie GeranmayehWhen U.S. President-elect Donald Trump reenters the White House, he faces the most advanced Iranian nuclear program to date.1 Iran now has enough fissile material to produce three bombs within weeks. This proliferation threat exists within a Middle East that is on high alert, with Israel and Iran on the brink of wider conflict.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
ecfr.eu | Ellie Geranmayeh
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
ecfr.eu | Julien Barnes-Dacey |Ellie Geranmayeh |Hugh Lovatt
Commentary 13 November 2024 6 minute read Donald Trump will start his second presidency facing a devastated Middle East: catastrophic wars in Gaza and Lebanon between Israel and Iranian-backed groups risk provoking a wider conflict between the Israel and Iran even before Trump takes office in January. Over the past year, Israel and Iran have engaged in two unprecedented rounds of direct military attacks against one another. They are now braced for a third round of strikes – with Tehran...
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
ecfr.eu | Julien Barnes-Dacey |Ellie Geranmayeh |Mark Leonard |Hugh Lovatt
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Jul 10, 2024 | 
ecfr.eu | Ellie Geranmayeh
Masoud Pezeshkian is Iran’s new president-elect. This follows the second round of a surprise election held on Friday after the sudden death of former Iranian president, the ultra-conservative Ebrahim Raisi. Raisi had entered into office in 2019, ushering in an incredibly rocky term for Iran’s domestic politics and relations with the West.
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Jun 5, 2024 | 
ecfr.eu | Julien Barnes-Dacey |Ellie Geranmayeh |Hamzeh Hadad |Jeremy Shapiro
19 June 2024, 15:00 – 16:00 , Berlin time (CEST, UTC+2) Online: Registration required, Register here Hamidreza Azizi, Consultant, MENA Programme, ECFR Ellie Geranmayeh, Deputy Director, MENA Programme, ECFR Hamzeh Hadad, Visiting Fellow, MENA Programme, ECFR Jeremy Shapiro, Research Director and Director, US Programme, ECFR Julien Barnes-Dacey, Director, MENA Programme, ECFR Since Hamas’s attack on Israel and Israel’s subsequent war on Gaza, the Middle East has experienced a dangerous cycle...
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Sep 29, 2023 | 
ecfr.eu | Ellie Geranmayeh |Mark Leonard
Podcast Mark Leonard's World in 30 minutes29 September 2023Listen on SoundCloudApple PodcastsSpotifyRSSFor the past few months, the United States has been trying to broker a groundbreaking bilateral deal between Saudi Arabia and Israel. Iran, meanwhile, is forging an ever closer and ever more dangerous partnership with Russia. Finally, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Egypt were invited to join the BRICS this summer – and are turning more and more towards the east.
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Sep 19, 2023 | 
ecfr.eu | Esfandyar Batmanghelidj |Ellie Geranmayeh
After years of negotiations with Iran over successive US administrations, five American citizens unjustly detained by Iran are finally free. The release of the US citizens follows a series of similar agreements since 2022 between European governments and Iran to secure the freedom of British, French, Belgian, Danish, and Austrian detainees. Yet, many Western citizens remain victims of Iranian authorities’ efforts to gain diplomatic leverage through arbitrary detention.
