ANALYSIS: Joe Biden’s First 100 Days: A Nostalgia for Past Foreign Policy Bravado?
The Conversation - Who could blame United States President Joe Biden for celebrating the Perseverance mission to Mars? The February Rover landing is an irresistible symbol for Biden as he nears the 100-day mark...
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...
[ANALYSIS] Pakistan-US Relations: New Challenges and Prospects
SPECIAL REPORT
“Pakistan-US Relations:
New Challenges and Prospects”
International Institute for Strategic Studies
London, March 13th 2018
★★★★★
OVERVIEW
In a meeting chaired by Rahul Roy-Chaudhury, the International Institute For Strategic Studies (ISS) Senior Fellow for South Asia, the veteran Pakistan...
ANALYSIS: U.S. May Be Getting Ready to Resume Talks With Iran
By Hamed Mohammadi
On June 4, the Iranian authorities released Michael White, a U.S. Navy veteran who had been arrested in July 2018 in the city of Mashhad, the capital of the northeastern province of...
ANALYSIS: Iran Nuclear Talks May Soon Resume
By Ahmad Rafat
Enrique Mora, the European Union’s chief negotiator in the Vienna talks to revive the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) — the Iran nuclear deal — traveled to Tehran on May...
ANALYSIS: What A New Nuclear Deal Would Mean for Iran and the West
By Hamed Mohammadi
According to some Iranian officials and Western diplomats, parties involved in the Vienna talks are close to reaching a “nuclear deal.”
Officially, some warn that “many issues remain unresolved,” others, including Russian Foreign...
ANALYSIS: Hedge Funds Doubt Saudi Arabia Will Replace Iranian Oil
By John Kemp
LONDON, Oct 1 (Reuters) - Hedge fund managers are increasingly betting Saudi Arabia and its allies cannot or will not replace all the crude lost from the market when U.S. sanctions on...
ANALYSIS: Reopening of Iran Nuclear Talks Poses Challenges to the U.S.
By Ahmad Rafat
While some White House remarks reveal that there are serious problems with the rebooting of the JCPOA, they also signal a new diplomatic game, which began when President Biden took office a...
ANALYSIS – Coronavirus and Sanctions Hit Iran’s Support of Proxies in Iraq
July 2 - Iran’s financial and military support for Shi’ite proxy paramilitary groups in Iraq, a linchpin of its regional foreign policy, has been dramatically disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic and U.S. sanctions, according to people...
ANALYSIS: Islamic Republic Is Badly Weakened in Mideast
By Ahmad Rafat
The Islamic Republic of Iran is facing significant losses as a Middle Eastern power, not only in terms of its proxy armed groups but also in countries that were previously part of...
