ANALYSIS: How Could Iran Disrupt Gulf Oil Flows?
By Parisa Hafezi, Jonathan Saul and Bozorgmehr Sharafedin
ANKARA/LONDON, July 11 (Reuters) - The commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards said last week that Tehran would block all exports through the Strait of Hormuz in the...
ANALYSIS: Trump’s Iran Decision Gives Gift To Putin
By David A. Andelman
May 15 (Reuters) - Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Iran nuclear accord has brought a bonus for the Kremlin. The U.S. president’s Iran action means that Vladimir Putin could...
ANALYSIS: Beyond Sanctions, How The U.S. Can Pressure Iran
By Michael Makovsky
May 29 (Reuters) - Secretary of State Mike Pompeo last week delivered a powerful speech that essentially defined U.S. policy objectives toward Iran by three noes: no nuclear program, no regional terrorism...
ANALYSIS: “In Conversation with Benjamin Netanyahu”
London, November 3, 2017 In a wide-ranging conversation with Dr. Robin Niblett CMG, Director of Chatham House, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented his views on the politics and history of the Middle East and,...
Iran Lacks Clear Oil Export Strategy, Expert Says
By Roshanak Astaraki
The Iranian government continues to sell the country’s crude oil without having a clear export strategy, Sadegh Mardani, an energy stock market expert, has said.
“Various methods which Iran has been using to...
ANALYSIS: Iran Deal Collapse Would Endanger U.S. In Iraq
By Nussaibah Younis
May 7 (Reuters) - May 12 is more than the deadline for Donald Trump to withdraw from the Iran nuclear agreement. It’s also the day that Iraqis are due to go to the polls...
ANALYSIS: Elections: Allegations of Corruption and Influence Peddling
May 20, 2017
By Roshanak Asteraki
Hostilities between reformist and conservative camps have reached a toxic level ahead of the presidential elections on Friday 19 May 2017.
Reformist President Hassan Rouhani and Ebrahim Raisi, a conservative cleric...
ANALYSIS: Why Iran Won’t Cut Back on its Missile Program
By Maysam Behravesh
April 9 (Reuters) - In a last-ditch attempt to save the Iran nuclear deal ahead of President Donald Trump’s May 12 deadline, Washington’s European allies have rushed to address the U.S. administration’s main objections...
ANALYSIS: To Contain Iran, Look First To Yemen – Not Sanctions
By Carlos Pascual
April 30 (Reuters) - In the Middle East, all eyes are fixed on Syria’s ongoing carnage and the international response to the latest chemical attack by Bashar al-Assad’s regime. But if the...
ANALYSIS: Inside Trump’s Middle East Mess
By Amir Handjani
June 14, 2017 (Reuters) President Donald Trump’s attempt to bring peace and stability to the Middle East has backfired. He has put a major U.S. ally, Qatar, in a geopolitical crisis and...
