ANALYSIS: What Exactly Does the U.S.-Iran Agreement Contain?
By Ahmad Rafat
South Korea has yet to transfer the $6 billion it owes Iran to a Swiss National Bank account under the unwritten agreement reportedly reached between Tehran and Washington. The money will then...
ANALYSIS-Rising Oil Prices Buy Iran Time in Nuclear Talks, Officials Say
By Parisa Hafezi
DUBAI, May 5 (Reuters) - Emboldened by an oil price surge since Russia invaded Ukraine, Iran's clerical rulers are in no rush to revive a 2015 nuclear pact with world powers to ease sanctions on...
ANALYSIS: Will Saudi Arabia Join US Maximum Pressure Policy on Iran, Replacing EU?
By Kayhan Life Staff
The war of words between Iran and Saudi Arabia has escalated in recent weeks, after Riyadh announced that its security forces had dismantled a terror cell operating under the auspices of...
ANALYSIS: Europe’s Patience with Iran Wears Thin, Tiptoes Towards Trump
By Robin Emmott and John Irish
BRUSSELS/PARIS, Jan 18 (Reuters) - In Tehran on Jan. 8 during a meeting with European envoys, Iranian officials abruptly stood up, walked out and slammed the door in an extraordinary...
ANALYSIS – Nagorno-Karabakh: Old Tensions Erupt Again Into Violence
Sept 27 (Reuters) - Nagorno-Karabakh is a mountainous and heavily-forested patch of land that sits inside the territory of ex-Soviet Azerbaijan.
Under international law, Nagorno-Karabakh is recognised as part of Azerbaijan. But the ethnic Armenians who make...
ANALYSIS: Iranian Executives Found to Have Bought African Passports as Sanctions Bit
By Bozorgmehr Sharafedin and David Lewis
LONDON/NAIROBI, June 29 (Reuters) - In January, the Comoros Islands quietly cancelled a batch of its passports that foreigners had bought in recent years. The tiny nation off the...
ANALYSIS: How The Islamic Republic (IRI) Is Striving to Rebuild the ‘Axis of Resistance’
By Ahmad Rafat
In late June, Brigadier General Esmail Ghaani, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Qods Force (IRGC-QF), made an unannounced visit to Baghdad.
At the same time, representatives from several groups, including Lebanon’s...
ANALYSIS: A Look Back At President Raisi’s First Year in Office
By Roshanak Astaraki
President Ebrahim Raisi formed Iran’s 13th government soon after coming into office last August with the slogan of “people’s government; a strong Iran,” but he and his cabinet have failed to address...
ANALYSIS: Iran’s Elections Are Setback for Khamenei
By Ahmad Rafat
On June 28, Iran held an election to choose a successor for the late Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash on May 19 while returning from a visit...
ANALYSIS: Was ISIS the True Perpetrator of the Deadly Kerman Attacks?
By Ahmad Rafat
Iranian intelligence agencies have blamed Daesh (ISIS) and even Israel for the two bomb attacks on Jan. 3, which killed 90 people and injured 200 in the southeastern province of Kerman. Yet...
