ANALYSIS- Subtle Shift in U.S. Rhetoric Suggests New Iran Approach
By Arshad Mohammed and John Irish
May 24 (Reuters) - A subtle shift in official U.S. statements suggests Washington believes reviving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal is better than the alternatives despite the advances in Iran's nuclear...
ANALYSIS – Countries Where Iranian Oil and Gas Revenues Are Blocked
LONDON, Jan 5 (Reuters) - Iran has been unable to obtain tens of billions of dollars of its assets in foreign banks, mainly from exports of oil and gas, due to U.S. sanctions on its banking...
ANALYSIS: Iranian General Hosseinzadeh Hejazi Is ‘Martyred’ After Heart Attack
By Kayhan Life Staff
On April 18, the public relations office of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) announced that Brigadier General Seyyed Mohammad Hosseinzadeh Hejazi, the deputy commander of the IRGC’s Qods Force (IRGC-QF),...
ANALYSIS: Elections: Allegations of Corruption and Influence Peddling
May 20, 2017
By Roshanak Asteraki
Hostilities between reformist and conservative camps have reached a toxic level ahead of the presidential elections on Friday 19 May 2017.
Reformist President Hassan Rouhani and Ebrahim Raisi, a conservative cleric...
ANALYSIS: Pakistan’s Vision for the Future
“Pakistan’s Vision for the Future”
International Institute for Strategic Studies
London, February 13th, 2018
OVERVIEW
The meeting was chaired by Rahul Roy-Chaudhury, Senior Fellow for South Asia. Dr. Ahsan Iqbal, Pakistan’s Minister for Interior and Planning, Development and Reform, was...
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: What Does ‘Secularism’ Mean in the Iran Protests?
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ANALYSIS: Trump’s Return Is Major Worry For Khamenei
By Ahmad Rafat
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has called on government officials to firmly reject any “demands from the United States and Israel under any circumstances.”
In a speech on Jan. 8 attended by senior...
ANALYSIS: “Iran’s New Foreign Policy Challenges”
SPECIAL REPORT
“Iran’s New Foreign Policy Challenges”
Chatham House
London, November 6th, 2018
★★★★★
Overview
In an ‘on the record meeting’ chaired by Dr. Sanam Vakil, Senior Consulting Research Fellow of the Middle East and North Africa programme at Chatham...
ANALYSIS: Trump Sanctions Could Give Biden a Bargaining Chip in Deal Talks With Iran
By Timothy Gardner and Daphne Psaledakis
WASHINGTON, Oct 27 (Reuters) - The Trump administration’s imposition of new sanctions on Iran may have been intended to forestall a new nuclear deal with Tehran if Joe Biden is elected...
