EghtesadOnline: In an editorial, The New York Times has enumerated a number of flaws in US foreign policy , which could trigger a war with Iran, suggesting engagement in dialog with Tehran instead of resorting to force.

EghtesadOnline: U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is due to visit Japan, South Korea and China this month to discuss North Korea on his first trip to the region since he took up his post, Japanese media reported on Saturday.

EghtesadOnline: Donald Trump is now the 45th president of the United States, and in his inaugural address he made it clear to the assembled US establishment that his administration does not intend to pursue business as usual. His motto, “America first”, signals the renunciation, and possible destruction, of the US-led world order that Democratic and Republican presidents, starting with Franklin D. Roosevelt, have built up and maintained–albeit with varying degrees of success–for more than seven decades.

EghtesadOnline: With the Donald J. Trump administration just a couple of weeks away from taking over the nation’s foreign policy, a new survey from the University of Maryland’s Program for Public Consultation (PPC) finds that nearly two thirds of Americans oppose withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal and seeking to negotiate a better deal, as has been proposed by the president-elect.

EghtesadOnline: More than six weeks before his inauguration, President-elect Donald Trump is already carrying out his promise to make U.S. foreign policy less predictable with a series of moves that are keeping America’s adversaries, as well as its friends, off-balance.

EghtesadOnline: Frustration is mounting among leading foreign policy officials in President Donald Trump's administration as they chafe at some policy and bureaucratic defeats and complain they lack independence to do their jobs, officials say.

EghtesadOnline: President Donald Trump’s foreign policy has shaken long-time U.S. allies and left them off-balance, according to his predecessor’s top national security aide.

EghtesadOnline: Just a few feet from Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Turkey’s foreign minister stood at a podium lambasting the U.S. for supporting Kurdish fighters in Syria, refusing to extradite a cleric his government blames for a 2016 coup attempt and arresting a banker accused of sanctions violations.

EghtesadOnline: Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qasemi said on Saturday that US uncalculated and wrong policies were major causes of volatile situation, tension and instability in the Middle East over the past decades.

EghtesadOnline: U.S. diplomats breathed a sigh of relief three months ago when Rex Tillerson was nominated as secretary of state, welcoming the oilman as a seasoned manager who would shield them from ideologues ready to gut America’s foreign policy machinery.

EghtesadOnline: U.S. Vice President Mike Pence flew out of Munich on Sunday leaving America’s allies relieved of some of their worst fears about the new administration’s foreign policy, yet still uncertain as to who will formulate it.

EghtesadOnline: Secretary of State Rex Tillerson spent his first day on the job reassuring rattled allies and his new employees that U.S. foreign policy is in steady hands.

EghtesadOnline: For the first time in decades, America’s oldest allies are questioning where Washington’s heart is.

EghtesadOnline: Donald Trump invoked the image of a U.S. plagued by weak borders, lopsided alliances and bad trade deals in an inauguration speech that hammered on his “America First” view of foreign policy and undermined hopes abroad that the new president would moderate his protectionist tone.