Tuesday, May 5, 2026

ANALYSIS: Why the Potential for Another Donald Trump Presidency Is Making Iran Very Nervous

SOURCE: THE CONVERSATION By Amin Naeni : PhD candidate at Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University There’s been much talk in recent months about what a possible second Donald Trump presidency in the...

ANALYSIS: Europe Concerned About Iran’s Regional Ambitions, Missile Program

By Ahmad Rafat In a meeting on December 12 with the families of Iranian servicemen killed in the Iran-Iraq war (1980-88) and the Syria conflict, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that the country had...

Khamenei Rejects Any Talks With Donald Trump Amid Revolution’s 46th Anniversary

By Ahmad Rafat   On the eve of the 46th anniversary of the victory of the Islamic Revolution, led by Ruhollah Khomeini, and shortly after U.S. President Donald Trump released a National Security Presidential Memorandum (NSPM)...

ANALYSIS: Biden Would Face Uncertain Path to Detente With Wary Iran

By Parisa Hafezi and Arshad Mohammed DUBAI/WASHINGTON, Oct 28 (Reuters) - Joe Biden plans to scrap what he calls the "dangerous failure" of President Donald Trump's maximum pressure policy on Iran should he win the U.S. election,...

ANALYSIS: Israel’s Military Operations Against Iran-Backed Armed Groups in the Middle East

By Jana Choukeir and Tala Ramadan DUBAI, March 18 (Reuters) - Israel has been fighting wars on several fronts in the Middle East since the Palestinian militant group Hamas attacked communities in the country in October 2023...

ANALYSIS: Nasrallah’s Death Is Major Blow to Iran

By Ahmad Rafat Israel’s killing of Hassan Nasrallah, the Secretary General of Lebanon’s Hezbollah, has dealt a significant blow to the so-called “Axis of Resistance,” which was established by the Islamic Republic of Iran in...

ANALYSIS: What Remains of the Iran Nuclear Deal as Talks Resume?

By Francois Murphy VIENNA, Nov 28 (Reuters) - Talks on reviving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal are to resume in Vienna on Monday, with Iran's atomic advances raising doubt as to whether a breakthrough can be made to bring...

ANALYSIS: The Iran Regime’s ‘Axis of Resistance’ Against Israel

By Parisa Hafezi, Laila Bassam and Arshad Mohammed DUBAI, Nov 15 (Reuters) - Iran's supreme leader delivered a clear message to the head of Hamas when they met in Tehran in early November, according to three senior...

ANALYSIS: What Obama Writes About Iran In His Bestselling Memoir

By Ahmad Rafat Former U.S. President Barack Obama’s memoir A Promised Land has been a mega-bestseller since its release on Nov. 17. As of late December, more than 3 million copies of the 751-page tome...

ANALYSIS: Russia-Turkey Analysis

RUSSIAN-TURKISH RELATIONS International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) London,  TEMPLE, 18th January, 2018 “Russian-Turkish Rapprochement: Implications for the West”  Oksana Antonenko, a former IISS Senior Fellow for Russia and Eurasia, a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Institute for Global Affairs...