ANALYSIS: Saudi Oil Attack Shows How Iran Sees New Mideast Game
By Peter Apps
LONDON, Sept 21 (Reuters) - If Iran's government was truly behind last weekend's cruise missile and drone attack on Saudi Arabia's energy infrastructure, it has put its potential foes across the Middle East...
ANALYSIS: Islamic Republic Faces Paralysis If West Toughens Sanctions
By Ahmad Rafat
The Islamic Republic of Iran currently finds itself engulfed in a multitude of crises: a deepening water shortage as reservoirs run dry; an electricity crisis marked by relentless blackouts; the fallout from...
ANALYSIS: What Are Iran’s Chances of Securing An IMF Loan?
By Hamed Mohammadi
The U.S. plans to block Iran’s request for a $5 billion from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to fight the Coronavirus epidemic, according to Western media reports. The U.S., the IMF’s largest...
ANALYSIS: America’s Unending Hostage Crisis with Iran
By Yeganeh Torbati and Joel Schectman
WASHINGTON, August 1 (Reuters) - A year before leaving office, Barack Obama stunned the world with a prisoner trade with Iran. After more than a year of secret negotiations,...
ANALYSIS: House Prices in Iran Reflect Deep Income Inequality
By Kayhan Life Staff
The architects of the Islamic Republic claimed that their 1979 revolution would usher in a new era of economic prosperity, social justice, and equal opportunity for all in Iran.
Nearly 43 years...
ANALYSIS: Iran’s Economic Crisis Is Sparking New Wave of Civil Unrest
By Ahmad Rafat
The volatile foreign exchange market is the leading indicator of the economic crisis in Iran -- even for those who live abroad and are not part of the everyday struggle in the...
Iranian Opposition Groups, Old and New, Mobilize Against the Regime
By Ahmad Rafat
The nationwide unrest which started in Mashhad, capital of the northeastern province of Khorasan, on December 28, and quickly spread to other parts of the country, breathed new life into various opposition...
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 – As Protests Rock Baghdad and Beirut, Iran Digs In
BEIRUT/BAGHDAD, Nov 1 (Reuters) - As governments in Iraq and Lebanon stagger and stumble under huge waves of popular protest, powerful factions loyal to Iran are pushing to quash political upheaval which challenges Tehran's entrenched influence...
ANALYSIS: Iran’s New President Is Unlikely to Alter Nation’s Foreign Policy
By Kayhan Life Staff
On July 6, Masoud Pezeshkian was elected president of the 14th government of the Islamic Republic of Iran amidst a muddle of crises across all sectors. Even the most optimistic analysts...
