Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- May 3, 2018

Babak Dehghanpisheh, Reuters: What could Iran do if Trump pulls out of nuclear deal?

BEIRUT (Reuters) - President Donald Trump is expected to pull the United States out of the Iran nuclear agreement on May 12. Tehran signed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, with China, France, Germany, Russia, Britain, and the United States in 2015.

Iran agreed to curbs on its nuclear program in exchange for the lifting of some sanctions. But the withdrawal of the United States will probably sink the deal. If that happens, Iran could retaliate by undermining the interests of Washington and its allies in the Middle East.

Here are some possible scenarios:

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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- May 3, 2018

How Iran will respond to new sanctions -- Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, Brookings

The Iran-Israel Clash Is Inevitable and Coming Soon -- Amir Levy, Jerusalem Post

How Putin's Syria Gambit Could End With Israel Revealing Its Military Superiority -- Moshe Arens, Haaretz

Why Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey Are Battling Over Somalia -- Haaretz

China's President Xi Jinping is pushing a Marxist revival — but how communist is it really? -- Bill Birtles, ABC News Online

China threatens Taiwan, but how far will Beijing go? -- Robert E. McCoy, Asia Times

What's Behind China's Alleged Missile Deployment in the Pacific? -- Sputnik

China ‘won’t bow to US pressure and is ready to fight to the end’ if a trade war breaks out -- Catherine Wong, SCMP

New Caledonia: What you need to know about the French territory's independence referendum -- Yara Murray-Atfield and Lauren Beldi, Asia Times

Mnangagwa's Zimbabwe inches forward – but where is it headed? -- Stephen Chan, Mail & Guardian

Needed: A Balkan initiative for the NATO summit -- Hans Binnendijk and Edward P. Joseph, Defense News

Basque Premier: 'ETA Should Never Have Existed' -- Alvaro Nieto & Luis Aizpeolea, El Pais

Armenian capital calm after protests end _ but at what cost? -- AP

War reporters — the great silence -- Naomi Conrad, DW