Copyright 2022 Mark Dubowitz Thu, 10 Feb 2022 07:16:01 -0500 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Mark Dubowitz :: Writings https://dubowitz.pundicity.com mark@defenddemocracy.org (Mark Dubowitz) webmaster@pundicity.com en-us https://dubowitz.pundicity.com/19249/the-us-is-helping-iran-fund-chaos-in-the-middle Tue, 27 Sep 2016 09:00:00 EST Would the White House knowingly transfer tens of billions of dollars to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah in Lebanon to finance the slaughter of Syrians or the next war against Israel? In theory, the Iran nuclear deal wasn't supposed to... https://dubowitz.pundicity.com/16580/obama-nuclear-deal-with-iran-puts-the-world Fri, 3 Apr 2015 09:00:00 EST On April 2 officials announced they had agreed on "key parameters" for the long-anticipated nuclear deal between the United States, its allies, and the Islamic Republic of Iran. Coincidentally, just as the Obama administration's Middle East policy is in... https://dubowitz.pundicity.com/16579/iran-negotiating-triumph-over-obama-and-america Fri, 3 Apr 2015 09:00:00 EST President Obama believes that the nuclear "framework" concluded Friday in Switzerland is a historic achievement. Iran's foreign minister, Javad Zarif, says he believes the same. Those two positions are incompatible. Mr. Zarif is also a loyal servant of... https://dubowitz.pundicity.com/16700/the-fragility-of-the-global-financial-order Tue, 3 Mar 2015 09:00:00 EST The U.S. Treasury has, over the past decade, been at the forefront of waging economic warfare against rogue actors. President Barack Obama has used sanctions to combat Iran's nuclear program, punish Russian aggression against Ukraine, squeeze the Assad... https://dubowitz.pundicity.com/16701/cheap-oil-wont-stop-iran Tue, 27 Jan 2015 09:00:00 EST As President Obama made clear in his State of Union address on Tuesday, U.S. officials are reasonably confident that they have Iran just where they want it. They say the Iranian economy is reeling from a 60 percent drop in the price of oil, Tehran's most... https://dubowitz.pundicity.com/16604/congress-the-last-line-of-defense-in-the-iran Fri, 12 Dec 2014 09:00:00 EST Now that the United States, its allies and Iran have agreed again to extend nuclear negotiations, the onus is now on Congress to take on the responsibility of making Tehran pay for its continued nuclear intransigence. Iran continues to run out the... https://dubowitz.pundicity.com/16702/iran-diplomatic-path-to-the-bomb Wed, 12 Nov 2014 09:00:00 EST Let's assume the Iranian nuclear talks in Vienna fail to conclude a final agreement by Nov. 24, the already extended deadline under the interim Joint Plan of Action signed in January. Iran's clerical regime has refused to give much ground in key areas,... https://dubowitz.pundicity.com/16703/iran-ignores-a-lucrative-deal-over-its-nuclear Sun, 10 Aug 2014 09:00:00 EST Why hasn't Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, agreed to the offer the West put on the table in Vienna last month in negotiations over the country's nuclear activities? If he were simply motivated by economics, he certainly should have. Iran's... https://dubowitz.pundicity.com/16704/warriors-in-gray-suits Mon, 4 Aug 2014 09:00:00 EST Economic sanctions are now the default instrument of coercive statecraft for confronting challenges to the international order. When Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded Crimea this winter, Barack Obama turned to his "favorite noncombatant command"... https://dubowitz.pundicity.com/16706/congress-can-defend-iran-sanctions-architecture Thu, 26 Jun 2014 09:00:00 EST WASHINGTON – As the P5+1 negotiates with Iran over its nuclear and ballistic missile programs, FDD released a new report outlining how Congress can help build a post-agreement sanctions architecture of effective enforcement and relief if a final deal... https://dubowitz.pundicity.com/16708/iran-the-psychology-of-sanctions Thu, 22 May 2014 09:00:00 EST Despite the current impasse in negotiations with the Islamic Republic of Iranover the fate of its once-clandestine military-nuclear program, U.S. officials remain hopeful that a final accord is within reach. An agreement that is verifiable, enforceable... https://dubowitz.pundicity.com/16709/no-such-thing-as-a-good-iranian-bank Mon, 12 May 2014 09:00:00 EST With a new round of talks underway this week in Vienna, American officials are brimming with optimism concerning the possibility of a nuclear deal by the summer. Worryingly, Iran appears poised to retain essential elements of its military-nuclear... https://dubowitz.pundicity.com/16710/why-washington-needs-to-open-its-eyes-to-iran Sat, 12 Apr 2014 09:00:00 EST Barack Obama does not like to back his diplomacy with military force. He believes there should be a clear sequence of engagement: diplomacy, sanctions, more diplomacy, perhaps more sanctions, and only after all peaceful alternatives are exhausted, the... https://dubowitz.pundicity.com/16711/iranian-economy-continues-its-modest-and-fragile Thu, 10 Apr 2014 09:00:00 EST The debate of how much sanctions relief Iran received as part of the November 2013 interim nuclear agreement continues. The Obama administration, which should be overvaluing its concessions to Iran as a negotiating tactic, is instead insisting to... https://dubowitz.pundicity.com/16712/russia-proposed-oil-for-goods-deal-with-iran Mon, 7 Apr 2014 09:00:00 EST As nuclear negotiations continue this week in Vienna, Moscow appears poised to openly flaunt the U.S.-led Iran sanctions regime. The move could undermine the Obama administration's assurances that neither the Crimea crisis nor the recent de-escalation of...