Does Ebrahim Raisi’s inauguration as Iran’s new president doom diplomatic efforts to constrain its nuclear program and pacify its regional behavior? U.S. officials had hoped that Iran’s supreme leader would direct President Hassan Rouhani to finalize a compliance-for-compliance deal during his final weeks in office to get sanctions relief for his successor.
Instead, Iran paused […]The post Iran’s New President, Public Opinion, and the Prospects for Negotiations appeared first on War on the Rocks.