Subject: Editors' Picks: How Russia is strong-arming Apple, and how Europe is sidestepping Iran sanctions
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Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2019 16:20:56 -0600 (CST)

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EDITORS' PICKS

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01/31/2019

Welcome to Editors’ Picks, FP’s daily round-up.

Today we look at how Russian security services could soon have access to the personal data of thousands of Apple users, how the Taliban is ready to offer the United States a way to avoid obvious humiliation in defeat, and why the European Union’s latest efforts to help Iran keep trading with European firms despite U.S. sanctions are likely to fall flat.

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WALKING OUT ON WOMEN: Washington failed at the most promising path toward stability in Afghanistan—keeping the country’s women alive, Sophia Jones and Christina Asquith write.

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DECRYPTION AND DECEPTION: Under Russian counterterrorism laws, Apple could be compelled to hand over user data to security services on request, FP’s Amy Mackinnon writes.

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A WEAKENED WORK-AROUND: In a bid by Europe to quiet the death rattles of the Iran nuclear deal, the European Union has launched INSTEX, a new financial vehicle. It should help humanitarian trade, but it will do little to ease Iran’s economic pain, FP’s Keith Johnson reports.

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WITHDRAWAL SYMPTOMS: As Washington mulls a full withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, Moscow is angling to take a leading role in the country’s future, FP’s Lara Seligman reports.

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TRUST ISSUES: Afghanistan’s jihadi insurgents are ready to give the United States what it wants—defeat without humiliation, Anatol Lieven writes.

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