ANALYSIS: How Iran’s Government Has Weaponized Sexual Violence Against Women Who Dare to Resist
By Mina Fakhravar / The Conversation
In Iran’s 2022–2023 “Woman, Life, Freedom” uprising, women’s bodies quite literally became battlefields.
The protest movement erupted after the death in custody of 22-year-old Mahsa (Jina) Amini, who was arrested by Iran’s...
ANALYSIS: Inside Israel’s New Iran Strategy
By Maysam Behravesh
(Maysam Behravesh is a multimedia journalist at the TV channel, Iran International. He is also a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science and an affiliated researcher at the Center for...
ANALYSIS: How Iran-EU Relations Are Strained by Terrorism and Sanctions
By Ahmad Rafat
The European Union announced a new set of sanctions on January 8 against a particular unit of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and against two individuals -- Asadollah Assadi and Saeed Hashemi Moghadam...
ANALYSIS: Extended Talks on Iran, Trade, but Little Change After Biden-XI Virtual Meeting
By David Brunnstrom, Yew Lun Tian, Michael Martina and Gabriel Crossley
WASHINGTON/BEIJING, Nov 16 (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping just completed their longest exchange as world leaders - but...
ANALYSIS: Why the U.S. Is Avoiding Direct Military Confrontation With Iran
By Ahmad Rafat
The U.S. has launched a series of retaliatory strikes on the military bases of Iran-backed groups in the Middle East. The U.S. military has used its supersonic strategic heavy B1 bombers to...
ANALYSIS: U.S. Tiptoes through Sanctions Minefield toward Iran Nuclear Deal
By Arshad Mohammed and Daphne Psaledakis
WASHINGTON, May 17 (Reuters) - As the United States searches for a path back to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, it is tiptoeing through a minefield laid by former...
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: Iran and China’s Controversial 25-Year Deal
By Ahmad Rafat
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi signed a 25-year accord between the two countries on March 27 in Tehran. Many Iranians inside and outside the country...
ANALYSIS – Iran’s Leaders Are Safe but Protests Raise the Stakes Over Imposing Veil
By Michael Georgy
DUBAI, Sept 23 (Reuters) - The popular revolt in Iran triggered by the death of a woman held by police is unlikely to pose an immediate threat to clerical rulers whose elite security forces have crushed...
ANALYSIS: Iran’s Foreign Policy Under Pezeshkian Is More of the Same
By Ahmad Rafat
Weeks after the election of Masoud Pezeshkian as the new Iranian President, the Islamic Republic is facing significant challenges on the global stage.
One critical factor that could push Iran into further international...
