Have renewed US sanctions failed? Or is it because the window for armed action to denuclearise Iran is virtually over?

DANA STROUL is Director of Research at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and served as U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East from February 2021 to February 2024.

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