ANALYSIS: As Iran Nuclear Deal Expires, UN Sanctions Are Reinstated
By Ahmad Rafat
The nuclear agreement signed by the Islamic Republic of Iran in October 2015 with the three European countries -- Germany, France, and the United Kingdom (collectively known as the E3) -- alongside...
ANALYSIS: Iran’s Militia Networks in the Middle East and Africa
By Ahmad Rafat
Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi has given the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) one month to either integrate the Iraqi military or lay down its arms and become a political organization.
The PMF, also...
ANALYSIS: What to Watch for at the Harris-Trump Presidential Debate
By James Oliphant
WASHINGTON, Sept 5 (Reuters) - Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump will battle each other next week in their first televised debate, a high-stakes clash that could give the winner an advantage in the final sprint to Election...
ANALYSIS: Islamic Republic Faces Paralysis If West Toughens Sanctions
By Ahmad Rafat
The Islamic Republic of Iran currently finds itself engulfed in a multitude of crises: a deepening water shortage as reservoirs run dry; an electricity crisis marked by relentless blackouts; the fallout from...
ANALYSIS: Behind Iran’s Biggest-Ever Teachers’ Strike
By Roshanak Astaraki
Last week saw the largest ever nationwide strike by teachers in Iran. Tens of thousands of teachers marched in some 100 cities across Iran, demanding their rights as articulated by the Iranian...
ANALYSIS: What is Lebanon’s Hezbollah?
Sept 16 (Reuters) - Hezbollah began importing Iranian fuel to Lebanon via Syria on Thursday, a move the Shi'ite Islamist group says aims to ease a crippling energy crisis but which its opponents say...
ANALYSIS: The Future of the Iran Nuclear Deal
London, October 24, 2017 Key Points from a Meeting of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Iran: Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA,) held at the House of Commons (Committee Room 12.)
Introduction In a well-attended 90-minute meeting...
ANALYSIS – Iran Crackdown May Burnish Raisi’s Credentials for Top Job
By Michael Georgy and Tom Perry
DUBAI, Oct 25 (Reuters) - By tightening curbs on women's rights, President Ebrahim Raisi has boosted his hardline credentials and possibly his prospects of becoming Iran's Supreme Leader, even at the cost...
ANALYSIS: Lebanese Army Walks Political Tightrope to Disarm Hezbollah
By Maya Gebeily and Laila Bassam
BEIRUT, Oct 28 (Reuters) - Lebanon's army has blown up so many Hezbollah arms caches that it has run out of explosives, as it races to meet a year-end deadline to...
How Dried-Out Wetlands on the Iran-Iraq Border Threaten the Region
By Sanam Mahoozi
LONDON, May 21 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The dust storms that have choked Iranians and Iraqis for weeks and hospitalised thousands, are the canary in the coalmine for a complex environmental disaster unfolding in wetlands...
