For Iranians, the election is about the economy first, foreign policy second. The economic challenges include inflation, unemployment and devaluation of the national currency. Inflation is disproportionately hurting the lower and middle classes. While Iran’s Central Bank reports that the inflation [...]
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts – Iran this week plays host to an international gathering on Syria that will attract representatives from 40 countries, including Turkey, Russia, and China. The conference is aimed at bolstering Tehran’s image as a regional conflict manager and [...]
Of the 686 applicants who registered for the upcoming June 14 presidential election in Iran, the Guardian Council, which moderates the candidates, approved eight. Two of these candidates, Mohammad Reza Aref and Hassan Rowhani, are on the borderline between reformists [...]
The new Iran Safeguards Report released by Director General of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Yukiya Amano is, in fact, repetition of his past periodical reports which have been presented to Board of Governors of the IAEA every three months. [...]
The United States House of Representatives’ Committee on Foreign Relations passed a bill on May 22, 2013, which has paved the way for the US President Barak Obama to enforce new sanctions against all companies conducting transactions with Iran regardless [...]
With the Guardian Council’s elimination of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei from contention, Iran’s upcoming presidential vote looks likely to be a reprise of the 2012 parliamentary elections — victory for the camp of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei but with [...]
Ban on candidates highlights the frailty of the Islamic regime By throwing his hat into the ring for Iran’s presidential race, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the former president, disrupted the supreme leader’s efforts to engineer the outcome. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has struck back. The [...]
The nuclear question and Iran’s role in Syria could remain unresolved and unclear even after the polls next month The field of 700 candidates has been winnowed down to eight men acceptable to the guardians of the revolution in Tehran, and [...]
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — By now, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is well-accustomed to enduring blows from Iran’s ruling clerics as his reputation fell from favored son to political outcast. But their intended parting shot – barring his chief aid from the [...]
The west is eagerly awaiting the results of the upcoming June presidential elections in Iran to determine whom they will be working with in Tehran for the foreseeable future. Certainly the nuclear issue will remain a high priority for world [...]
