Outside the Beltway

Pick a side. No nuance allowed.

No casualties, American or otherwise, have been reported.

U.S. taxpayers have been spending $2 million a month for his protection.

Yet another casualty of the Ukraine invasion.

The Biden administration is close to repairing the damage Trump caused.

The Islamic Republic is very close to being able to fuel a single weapon.

Thousands of centrifuges have been destroyed.

Iran’s top nuclear facility is offline again.

Those expecting Bernie Sanders’ agenda are sorely disappointed.

A way-too-early assessment of how it’s going.

The 46th President’s foreign policy team is taking shape.

The Natanz fuel enrichment site has been seriously damaged.

In response to the American assassination of a top General, Iran has announced the end of yet more restrictions imposed by the 2015 nuclear deal.

An empty column with a seed of one good point buried in a bunch of nothing.

Iran announced that it was exceeding another limitation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, upping the already tense situation in the Persian Gulf

Just over a year after the United States repudiated the JCPOA, Iran has surpassed a limit on uranium enrichment set by the JCPOA

A possible way forward?

Trump and Iran.

Tensions are increasing in the Persian Gulf as the Iran war hawks seem to be winning the battle for the President’s support.

Bret Stephens (and others) are overreacting.

South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg laid out his foreign policy platform in a speech this week. It’s certainly an improvement over the current President.

The tree that President Trump and French President Macron planted last year has died.

While the American media was paying attention to President travels and travails in Europe, there was another meeting taking place.

His colum in WaPo isn’t very good.

The Trump Administration is taking an unnecessarily militaristic approach toward Iran, and that poses real dangers for the country and for the Middle East.

The Trump Administration continues to drive a wedge between the United States and Europe, can it ever be repaired?

One hundred years after the end of World War One, the forces that led to it are waking up from a long slumber.

President Trump’s second speech to the General Assembly of the United Nations wasn’t much better than the first, but it it did get the world laughing at us.

Reports about tension between Defense Secretary James Mattis and President Trump are becoming louder, and it’s being suggested that Mattis could be out of office after the midterms.

The Trump Administration has taken the latest step in a process that began in May with the withdrawal from the JCPOA. Where it takes us is anybody’s guess, but the probability of something going wrong is quite high.

The Trump’s Administration’s rhetoric and actions have given the Iranians no reason to trust the United States going forward.

The President was up late last night sending an incredibly over-the-top tweet directed at Iran.

A thinly-sourced report says Yes.

Thanks to Donald Trump, the happiest man in the world right now is Vladimir Putin.

Hurricane Trump hit the G-7 this weekend, and the damage it left behind will take years to clean up.

Dan Coates, the Director of National Intelligence, has issued a strong warning that has received little attention.

The arguments in favor of a permanent U.S./NATO base in Poland are not very convincing.

More than a decade ago, Donald Trump revealed one of his secrets to success. Exhaust your enemies. It explains much of what has happened since he took office.

The new American Ambassador to Germany is making what clearly seem to be inappropriate statements about domestic politics in Europe.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivered a bombastic speech on Iran yesterday that reveals just how empty and dangerous the Trump Administration’s policy toward Iran actually is.

Does the administration know what it is doing?

Gina Haspel faced some tough questions from Democrats regarding her role in the C.I.A.’s post-9/11 torture programs, but she’s likely to be confirmed anyway.

As expected, President Trump has withdrawn the United States from the nuclear deal with Iran. There was no rational basis for doing so.

A majority of Americans want the President to stay in the nuclear deal with Iran. That’s unlikely to matter to him.

They hired Israeli Private Investigators to dig up dirt on former Obama officials, including Ben Rhodes and Colin Kahl.

Israeli Prime Minister gave a speech yesterday designed to undermine the nuclear deal with Iran. The evidence was unconvincing, but the speech was really only aimed at an audience of one.

General (Retired) Michael Hayden has some harsh, and concerning, criticisms of the Trump administration.

Not surprisingly, Mike Pompeo was confirmed as America’s 70th Secretary of State today. Now, the hard work begins.

French President Emmanuel Macron is in the U.S. hoping to lobby President Trump to keep the United States in the nuclear deal with Iran. He’s got his work cut out for him.

Despite facing headwinds in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Mike Pompeo will probably be confirmed as the next Secretary of State. That’s unfortunate.