MNA Ex-senior CIA official Paul Pillar says the Trump administration's renunciation of the JCPOA and re-imposition of sanctions has served only to increase tensions with Iran and antagonize and alienate US allies in Europe. Professor Paul Pillar, who was CIA intelligence analyst for 28 years, tells Mehr News in an exclusive interview ...

Tehran Times |Javad Heirannia: Professor Paul Pillar, who was CIA intelligence analyst for 28 years, tells the Tehran Times that Khashoggi case will force Trump to do something, but his administration will resist doing more than a necessary minimum, because it does not want to upset its overall relationship with Saudi Arabia. Pillar also says, Most ...

Persia Digest In October 2017, the US President, Donald Trump did not certify Irans adherence to the JCPOA, and handed over its fate to the US Congress. However, Congress did not take any measures within the deadline given to reach a decision and again the ball is back in Trumps court. Two months ago, Trump warned that if Congress does not take any ...

Tehran Times- Professor Paul Pillar, who was CIA intelligence analyst for 28 years, says Saudi Arabia has been eager to keep pace with Iran in developing nuclear program. The Saudis have been interested all along in developing a nuclear program, and keeping pace with Iran involves part of their motivations, Pillar says in an exclusive interview ...

Stuck in Cold War mentality Washington regards Russia's activities in the Middle East as a setback for the US. The White House should learn from Russia what the "realist" foreign policy means, CIA veteran Paul Pillar writes. The deployment ofRussia's strategic bombers and fighter jets atHamadan inIran has become yet another lesson the US should learn ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Economic sanctions on Iran would have counterproductive effects and entail substantial costs for the US companies, an American think-tank said. An infatuation with economic sanctions, applied against countries Americans do not like such as Iran, loses sight of the concept that sanctions are only a tool for trying to accomplish some ...

Daily look at Iran's late-breaking news and upcoming events:     Mann describes Geneva talks as complicated, serious European Union Spokesman Michael Mannsaid that Iran and the six world powers have entered serious and complicated talks as the two sides ended their first round of negotiations in Geneva, Switzerland.   Zarif ...

A former CIA official has warned against the imposition of additional sanctions against Iran amid the ongoing nuclear talks between the Islamic Republic and six world powers. It is not a good idea to add more sanctions, said Paul Pillar in an interview with the CNN. He rejected the idea stated by some Western officials that adding more sanctions ...