Iranian Diplomacy - Professor Paul Pillar, who was CIA intelligence analyst for 28 years, says the Trump administration is arguing that it is still a party to the JCPOA even though it has grossly violated its obligations under the agreement. Pillar says, Indeed, previous declarations by the administration have been nothing short of a complete ...

Iranian Diplomacy - A university professor in the US believes: The Trump administration is trying to reduce its isolation on the Iran issue by doing whatever it can to generate widespread hostility toward Iran. The conference in Poland is part of this effort. After months of speculation, France, Germany, and the UK finally announced a financial mechanism ...

Iranian Diplomacy - Professor Paul Pillar, who was CIA intelligence analyst for 28 years, tells the Tehran Times that The Syrian Kurds now have a much stronger incentive than before to reach some sort of understanding with the Assad regime--possibly pledging loyalty to the regime in return for a degree of autonomy in northeast Syria. Pillar says Although ...

LobeLog | Paul R. Pillar: Among the many indicators of misdirection in the Trump administrations policy toward Iran, one of the clearest is the fondness for the cult-cum-terrorist group known as the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK). National Security Advisor John Bolton and Donald Trumps attorney, Rudy Giuliani, are among the groups most prominent cheerleaders,...

Atlantic Council | PAUL R. PILLAR: The Trump administrations policy toward Iran aims for regime change. Possibly US President Donald Trump dreams of reaching some bold deal with the current leadership of Iran, but he has not laid out any feasible route to one. The administrations dominant hope instead seems to be that stepped-up economic pressure will ...

The National Interest |Paul R. Pillar: THE ADVENT of the Trump administration has put U.S.-Iranian relations into a deep freeze. President Trump has repeatedly indicated his displeasure with the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the agreement that restricts Irans nuclear program. His appointment of Mike Pompeo to become secretary of state,...

Official Washingtons neocons are still trying to derail a negotiated settlement with Iran over its nuclear program by imposing new sanctions and thus putting the U.S. on a course for war as favored by Israels Likud. But this reality is hiding behind sophistry, says ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar. Heres a New Years resolution that participants in policy ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- American think tank, the National Interest, said the US hawks, neoconservatives and Israel are hindering rapprochement between Tehran and Washington. Paul R. Pillar in an article released by the National Interest says when Iran's President Hassan Rouhani was in New York last week and addressing a gathering at a New York hotel, the ...