Subject: The Evening: Iran Rethought, Yemen Famine, Willin’ again and More
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Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2017 22:08:23 +0000
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The Evening: Iran Rethought, Yemen Famine, Willin’ again and More
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** Good Evening,
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It's Tuesday, April 25th.

** Iran Deal Intervention
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The White House last week rejected a State Department letter that declared Iran in compliance with a landmark nuclear deal, insisting on far tougher wording, according to senior U.S. officials involved in a policy review, as the
Wall Street Journal’s Jay Solomon and Carol Lee reported (https://www.wsj.com/articles/white-house-intervened-to-toughen-letter-on-iran-nuclear-deal-1493151632?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=2aa0e361aa-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_04_25&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-2aa0e361aa-145367789) late this afternoon.

Dive Deeper: See CFR’s Ray Takeyh’s testimony before the Subcommittee on National Security of the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government on “Assessing the Iran Deal (http://www.cfr.org/iran/assessing-iran-deal/p39044?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=2aa0e361aa-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_04_25&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-2aa0e361aa-145367789) .”

** Yemen Tragedy
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The head of the United Nations António Guterres said today, “On average, a child under the age of 5 dies of preventable causes in Yemen every 10 minutes,” as the
Washington Post’s Max Bearak reports (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/04/25/a-child-in-yemen-dies-every-10-minutes-as-humanitarian-aid-falls-short-by-85-u-n-says/?utm_term=.5e7a8a788e0e&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=2aa0e361aa-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_04_25&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-2aa0e361aa-145367789) .

Dive Deeper: See CSIS’ Anthony Cordesman’s recent report Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and Yemen: Is Decisive Force an Option? (https://www.csis.org/analysis/afghanistan-iraq-syria-and-yemen-decisive-force-option?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=2aa0e361aa-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_04_25&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-2aa0e361aa-145367789)

And, see the Washington Institute’s Eric Pelofsky’s “Famine, Houthis, and Peace Talks Confront Yemen (http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/famine-houthis-and-peace-talks-confront-yemen?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=2aa0e361aa-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_04_25&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-2aa0e361aa-145367789) .”

** North Korea Fears
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Behind the Trump administration’s sudden urgency in dealing with the North Korean nuclear crisis lies a stark calculus: a growing body of expert studies and classified intelligence reports that conclude the country is capable of producing a nuclear bomb every six or seven weeks, as the
New York Times’s David Sanger and William Broad report (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/24/world/asia/north-korea-nuclear-missile-program.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=2aa0e361aa-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_04_25&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-2aa0e361aa-145367789) .

Dive Deeper: Read a transcript of Wolf Blitzer’s interview on North Korea with NTI Chairman (and CSIS chairman emeritus) former Senator Sam Nunn (D-GA) (http://www.nti.org/newsroom/news/former-senator-sam-nunn-cnn-re-north-korea-interview-wolf-blitzer/?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=2aa0e361aa-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_04_25&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-2aa0e361aa-145367789) .

For an analysis of North Korean missile launches see CSIS’s Missile Threat (https://missilethreat.csis.org/country/dprk/?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=2aa0e361aa-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_04_25&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-2aa0e361aa-145367789) interactive micro website.

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Confronting Anti-Semitism
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President Trump vowed to stamp out anti-Semitism today in remarks at the Capitol commemorating the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's National Days of Remembrance as the Hill’s Ben Kamisar reports (http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/330421-trump-marks-holocaust-remembrance-we-will-confront-anti-semitism?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=2aa0e361aa-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_04_25&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-2aa0e361aa-145367789) .

** Shattered
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Our new episode of Bob Schieffer’s “About the News” podcast is a candid conversation with authors Amie Parnes and Jonathan Allen about what went wrong with Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the reporting for their best-selling book out this week “Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton’s Doomed Campaign (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bob-schieffers-about-the-news-with-h-andrew-schwartz/id1124101295?mt=2&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=2aa0e361aa-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_04_25&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-2aa0e361aa-145367789) .

** In That Number
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** 9
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The number of people who were arrested by Spanish police today in an operation that targeted individuals with links to last year’s attack on the Brussels airport. Source: Reuters (http://www.reuters.com/article/us-spain-security-arrests-idUSKBN17R0U3?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=2aa0e361aa-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_04_25&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-2aa0e361aa-145367789) .

** Critical Quote
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** “Ebola was an avoidable tragedy. But out of that tragedy emerged a new consciousness of the vital centrality of vaccines as a tool for prevention and containment.”
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—CSIS’s J. Stephen Morrison and Chris Millard authored a new commentary for the Thomson Reuters Foundation today, “New partnerships needed after Ebola’s hard lessons (http://news.trust.org/item/20170425111525-350gs/?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=2aa0e361aa-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_04_25&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-2aa0e361aa-145367789) .”

** iDeas Lab
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CSIS’s Beyond Parallel Project seeks to bring transparency and understanding to Korean unification. See Beyond Parallel’s new website (http://beyondparallel.csis.org/?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=2aa0e361aa-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_04_25&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-2aa0e361aa-145367789) for the latest analysis.

The Andreas C. Dracopoulos iDeas Lab at CSIS enhances our research with the latest in cutting-edge web technologies, design, and video.

** Optics
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(Photo Credit: MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images.)President Trump speaks during a Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony in the Rotunda of the US Capitol today.

** Recommended Reading
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This is the must read of the day: “A Vandenberg movement in Congress (https://origin-nyi.thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/foreign-policy/330310-a-vandenberg-movement-in-congress?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=2aa0e361aa-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_04_25&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-2aa0e361aa-145367789) ” by CSIS’s Louis Lauter.

** This Town Tomorrow
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Join the CSIS Human Rights Initiative and Global Food Security Project at 10:00 a.m. for a report launch and discussion on the linkages among human rights, food security, migration, and displacement in Djibouti (https://www.csis.org/events/stuck-limbo-refugees-migrants-and-food-insecure-djibouti?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=2aa0e361aa-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_04_25&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-2aa0e361aa-145367789) .

Join CSIS’s Southeast Asia Program and Energy and National Security Program at 1:30 p.m. for a discussion with Josh Frydenberg, Australia’s minister for energy and the environment (https://www.csis.org/events/csis-pertamina-banyan-tree-leadership-forum-josh-frydenberg?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=2aa0e361aa-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_04_25&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-2aa0e361aa-145367789) , to discuss global trends in energy policy and how Australia’s energy policy fits within the regional dynamics of the Indo-Pacific.

Join the Council on Foreign Relations at 12:30 p.m. on demand for “U.S. Entry into World War I: Lessons One Hundred Years Later (http://www.cfr.org/history-and-theory-of-international-relations/us-entry-into-world-war-lessons-one-hundred-years-later/p39068?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=2aa0e361aa-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_04_25&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-2aa0e361aa-145367789) .”

** On Demand
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Earlier this month, CSIS hosted the launch of Gideon Rachman’s new book
Easternization: Asia's Rise and America's Decline. You can watch the event on demand here (https://www.csis.org/events/book-launch-gideon-rachmans-easternization-asias-rise-and-americas-decline?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=2aa0e361aa-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_04_25&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-2aa0e361aa-145367789) .

** Sounds
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CSIS’s Russian Roulette released a new podcast today, “Of Defense Budgets and Eurasian Integration.” You can listen on iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/russian-roulette/id1112258664?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=2aa0e361aa-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_04_25&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-2aa0e361aa-145367789) or SoundCloud (https://soundcloud.com/csis-57169780/of-defense-budgets-and?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=2aa0e361aa-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_04_25&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-2aa0e361aa-145367789) .

** Smiles
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Thanks for all of the emails about “Willin,’” Spotify and cover tunes in general. My favorite email was from Duncan who correctly pointed out that the greatest cover version ever performed of “Willin’” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJHcD0kHTGk&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=2aa0e361aa-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_04_25&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-2aa0e361aa-145367789) is by the incomparable Linda Ronstadt. I couldn’t agree more.
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