ANALYSIS: Lebanese Army Walks Political Tightrope to Disarm Hezbollah
By Maya Gebeily and Laila Bassam
BEIRUT, Oct 28 (Reuters) - Lebanon's army has blown up so many Hezbollah arms caches that it has run out of explosives, as it races to meet a year-end deadline to...
ANALYSIS: Politics, Not Substance, Seen Guiding U.S. And Iran on Terror Listing
By Arshad Mohammed and Parisa Hafezi
April 11 (Reuters) - One of the last obstacles to reviving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal - Tehran's demand to remove its Revolutionary Guards from a U.S. terrorism list - is...
ANALYSIS: Death of A Dervish – How The Revolutionary Guards Turned On One Of...
Potkin Azarmehr
Mohamad Raji, one of the Dervishes arrested during the recent clashes between Iran's security forces and the Gonabadi Dervishes, died on Sunday, while in custody. Raji was a former Revolutionary Guard, and considered a national...
ANALYSIS: How Bullying Iran Could Backfire For Trump
By Seyed Hossein Mousavian
May 1 (Reuters) - Benjamin Netanyahu has accused Iran of lying “big time” about its nuclear program. In a theatrical announcement Monday, the Israeli prime minister presented files and CDs that he...
ANALYSIS: After Currency Devaluation, Iran’s Economic Outlook Is Bleak
By Roshanak Astaraki
The Iranian foreign exchange (forex or FX) market experienced one of its most volatile periods in the last week of January, with a dramatic devaluation of the Iranian rial.
On Jan. 23, the...
ANALYSIS: Disbanding Morality Police Won’t Stop Iranians Urging Regime Change
By Ahmad Rafat
International media have reported extensively on recent ambiguous comments by Iran’s Attorney General Mohammad Jafar Montazeri, suggesting that the country had disbanded its morality police (the Guidance patrol).
Mr. Montazeri made those comments...
ANALYSIS- On Iraq’s Border with Syria, Iran-Backed Militia Warily Eye U.S. Forces
By John Davison
Iraq, Dec 12 (Reuters) - From a desert hillside guarded by Iraqi Shi'ite paramilitaries, commander Qasim Muslih can spot Islamic State hideouts across the frontier in Syria. But he also keeps a...
ANALYSIS: Iran’s Strategy in Hamas’s War Against Israel
By Ahmad Rafat
Hamas’s unprecedented air and ground attacks against Israel on Oct. 8 shocked everyone and surprised Israeli intelligence agencies, famous for their capabilities and competence. The significance of Israeli intelligence being blindsided by...
ANALYSIS: Iran’s Workers Struggle With Low or Unpaid Wages, Fixed-Term Contracts
By Kayhan Life Staff
Iranian workers face serious challenges, including low wages, fixed-term contracts, unsafe workplace environments, job insecurity, and a lack of benefits.
Millions of Iranian households live under the poverty line. The current average...
ANALYSIS: A Year After Soleimani’s Death, Iran’s influence Is Receding
By Ahmad Rafat
January 3 marked the first anniversary of the death of the former Commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps Qods Force (IRGC-QF), Lieutenant General Ghasem Soleimani, who was assassinated in a U.S....
