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ANALYSIS: Road to Renewed Iran Nuclear Deal Likely to Be Long and Bumpy

By Arshad Mohammed and Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON, Feb 21 (Reuters) - It took seven years from the summer's day in 2008 when a top U.S. diplomat first sat down with his Iranian counterpart until the two...

ANALYSIS: Oil Traders Sanguine About Risks From Israel-Iran Conflict

By John Kemp LONDON, April 18 (Reuters) - Petroleum prices have fallen following Iran's missile and drone assault on Israel, confounding expectations that the escalation of the shadow war would cause them to rise. Like major industrial accidents, extreme...

ANALYSIS – Iran Leaders in ‘Disarray’ Struggle to Close Ranks Over Protests – Analysts,...

By Parisa Hafezi DUBAI, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Iran's clerical rulers are eager to crush mass anti-government protests, but maneuvering over the eventual succession to the supreme leader and rifts over security tactics have complicated efforts to...

ANALYSIS: Iran’s Exclusion from Munich Conference Is A Victory For Pro-Democracy Movement

By Ahmad Rafat The Islamic Republic has been excluded from this year’s Munich Security Conference (MSC), held from 17 to 19 Feb. The MSC’s decision marks the first time Iran and Russia will not have representatives...

Fugitive Iranian Judge’s Death in Bucharest: Was It Really Suicide?

By Ahmad Rafat The death of a 52-year-old former Iranian judge, Gholamreza Mansouri, at the Duke Hotel in Bucharest has cast a shadow on relations between Iran and Romania. At around 2:30 pm local time...

ANALYSIS: Iran and Britain’s History of Strained Relations

DUBAI, Jan 14 (Reuters) - British-Iranian relations, which have been strained for decades, were back in the spotlight after Iranian authorities executed British-Iranian national Alireza Akbari for spying, charges he had denied. Here is a timeline of...

ANALYSIS: Iran-Allied Militias, Other Groups, Blamed for Islamic State Advances in Iraq and Syria

By John Davison JALAWLA, Iraq, Feb 2 (Reuters) - Yousif Ibrahim no longer travels by night along the roads around his hometown of Jalawla in northeastern Iraq. He fears getting caught up in attacks by...

ANALYSIS: Iran Will Play No Role in Syria’s Future

By Ahmad Rafat When Syrian people poured into the streets on March 15, 2011, demanding sweeping political reforms, they did not expect their anti-government protests to spark a devastating civil war that still rages today. The...

ANALYSIS: What Does ‘Secularism’ Mean in the Iran Protests?

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ANALYSIS: “Iranian Foreign Policy: Prospects for Change”

SPECIAL REPORT “Iranian Foreign Policy: Prospects for Change” Chatham House London, May 9th 2018 ★★★★★   Overview In a meeting chaired by Nomi Bar-Yaacov, Associate Fellow, International Security, Chatham House, Professor Mahmood Sariolghalam of Shahid Beheshti University (former National...