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: Iran’s Lawsuit Against U.S. Is An Attempt to Stop Sanctions
In a tweet on July 14, Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said Iran had filed a lawsuit against the U.S. with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Hague “because Washington’s decision to impose...
ANALYSIS: How Could Iran Disrupt Gulf Oil Flows?
By Parisa Hafezi, Jonathan Saul and Bozorgmehr Sharafedin
ANKARA/LONDON, July 11 (Reuters) - The commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards said last week that Tehran would block all exports through the Strait of Hormuz in the...
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: Beyond Sanctions, How The U.S. Can Pressure Iran
By Michael Makovsky
May 29 (Reuters) - Secretary of State Mike Pompeo last week delivered a powerful speech that essentially defined U.S. policy objectives toward Iran by three noes: no nuclear program, no regional terrorism...
ANALYSIS: Trump’s Iran Decision Gives Gift To Putin
By David A. Andelman
May 15 (Reuters) - Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Iran nuclear accord has brought a bonus for the Kremlin. The U.S. president’s Iran action means that Vladimir Putin could...
ANALYSIS: “Iranian Foreign Policy: Prospects for Change”
SPECIAL REPORT
“Iranian Foreign Policy: Prospects for Change”
Chatham House
London, May 9th 2018
★★★★★
Overview
In a meeting chaired by Nomi Bar-Yaacov, Associate Fellow, International Security, Chatham House, Professor Mahmood Sariolghalam of Shahid Beheshti University (former National...
ANALYSIS: Iran Deal Collapse Would Endanger U.S. In Iraq
By Nussaibah Younis
May 7 (Reuters) - May 12 is more than the deadline for Donald Trump to withdraw from the Iran nuclear agreement. It’s also the day that Iraqis are due to go to the polls...
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: Iran, Looking To The Future
special report
“Iran: Looking To The Future”
House of Commons
South Asia &Middle East Forum
London, April 18th, 2018
★★★★★
OVERVIEW
Khalid Nadeem was chairman of the “Iran: Looking to the Future” session of the South Asia &...
