Monday, July 6, 2026

ANALYSIS: Why the West Seeks to Avoid Ukraine-Like Conflict in Mideast

By Hamed Mohammadi It has been nearly four months since the Oct. 7 deadly attack by Hamas on Israel, which sparked the war in Gaza. During the same period, the Houthi rebels in Yemen have...

ANALYSIS: Hitler and Reza Shah: Mullahs and Pro-Israel Writers Sing Together

By Amir Taheri That political life is full of surprises may be an old adage. However, there are times when something so unexpected happens that one has to look beyond surprise to understand it. One such...

ANALYSIS: Who Are the Men Serving in Iran’s IRGC, Basij, and Police Forces?

By Simorgh (Iran) The recent publication of photographs of underage children in riot police uniforms carrying compliance tools has raised eyebrows and sparked public outrage. However, a closer examination of the photographs shows that the small...

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...

EXCLUSIVE – Qatar Held Separate Talks With Iran, US on Nuclear, Drones

By Samia Nakhoul, Andrew Mills and Parisa Hafezi Sept 20 (Reuters) - Qatar wants to capitalise on a U.S.-Iranian detainee deal that it mediated during months of delicate diplomacy to find common ground on a more intractable issue between...

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...

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: U.S. Urges Global Coalition Against the Islamic Republic of Iran

In a video message to the World Economic Forum in Davos on January 22, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo praised President Donald Trump’s administration for confronting the Islamic Republic of Iran’s harmful activities...

ANALYSIS: The Future of the Iran Nuclear Deal is Uncertain

By Ahmad Rafat In recent days, several members of U.S. President Joe Biden’s team have reaffirmed his commitment to rejoining the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), better known as the Iran nuclear deal....