ANALYSIS: Bolton 2.0: Trump’s Tough Guy on Iran Picks His Battles
By Steve Holland, Jeff Mason and Jonathan Landay
WASHINGTON, Oct 4 (Reuters) - Hanging on a wall in John Bolton's West Wing office is a memento of his proudest achievement as national security adviser: a...
Polls Offer Conflicting Views on Iranians’ Political Sentiments
By Natasha Phillips
Two studies just published offer differing outlooks on Iranians’ attitudes towards the nuclear deal, towards their government and towards issues in the country’s regions.
The first report, a public opinion study published...
ANALYSIS: Hedge Funds Doubt Saudi Arabia Will Replace Iranian Oil
By John Kemp
LONDON, Oct 1 (Reuters) - Hedge fund managers are increasingly betting Saudi Arabia and its allies cannot or will not replace all the crude lost from the market when U.S. sanctions on...
ANALYSIS- Iran’s Revolutionary Guards May Turn Parade Attack into Political Win
By Babak Dehghanpisheh and Bozorgmehr Sharafedin
GENEVA/LONDON, Sept 26 (Reuters) - An attack on a military parade in Iran is a blow to the image of its Revolutionary Guards, but the elite force could yet...
ANALYSIS: Inside Israel’s New Iran Strategy
By Maysam Behravesh
(Maysam Behravesh is a multimedia journalist at the TV channel, Iran International. He is also a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science and an affiliated researcher at the Center for...
ANALYSIS: Iran’s Ability to Disrupt Oil Flow in Persian Gulf: Der Spiegel Report
As the U.S. prepares to impose a new set of sanctions on Iran sometimes in early November, Tehran is threatening to disrupt the flow of oil in the Persian Gulf. The following is an...
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...














