Iran expert says corruption ‘No. 1 national security threat in Iran’
Al-Monitor | Bryant Harris: Al-Monitor contributor and economic analyst Bijan Khajehpour highlighted corruption as a major reason why the Iranian government was…
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Under lockdown, Iranians rediscover the joys of baking bread
Bourse and Bazaar | Khosro Kalbasi: Iranians are staying at home, doing their part to “flatten the curve” as the country confronts…
How will the COVID-19 crisis impact US-Iran tensions?
Al-Monitor | Hamed A. Kermani: In the more than three months since it first was reported in China, the novel coronavirus has…
Sanctions are crippling Iran’s fight against coronavirus
The Guardian | Pirouz Hanachi: As mayor of Tehran I have seen lives lost as a result of medical shortages. This is…
Iran battles coronavirus amid dramatic slump in oil income
Al-Monitor – Iran’s vice president for economic affairs lamented the free fall of the country’s oil revenue. Mohammad Nahavandian told Iranian state…
Can Iran’s president turn around its economy?
Al-Monitor | Bijan Khajehpour: While the Iranian government is busy managing the public health fallout of the coronavirus pandemic, there are increasing…
US sidestepped OWN SANCTIONS against Russia to save American lives from Covid-19… If only it cared as much about Iranian lives
TASS | Scott Ritter: When it comes to saving American lives, sanctions are not an obstacle to the provision of life-saving medical…
Coronavirus keeps families apart on eve of Iranian new year
Reuters – Like many Iranians, Mahnaz left Iran and settled in a western country 10 years ago after political restrictions in the…
Iran’s urgent IMF loan request challenges Trump policy
Bourse and Bazaar | Esfandyar Batmanghelidj: For the first time in 60 years, Iran has requested a loan from the International Monetary…
The coronavirus crisis is a diplomatic opportunity for the United States and Iran
Foreign Policy | Robert Malley, Ali Vaez: Washington and Tehran could use the public health emergency to show goodwill, dial down tensions while…
US might be complementing Iran sanctions with bioweapon: Expert
Press TV – An American pundit speculates that the United States is keeping its sanctions against Iran in order to complement the…
Idlib is a stress test for Iranian-Turkish relations
Atlantic Council | Sina Azodi and Giorgio Cafiero: Iran has done much to buttress President Bashar al-Assad’s government throughout the Syrian civil…
The coronavirus is killing Iranians. So are Trump’s brutal sanctions.
The Intercept | Mehdi Hasan: The U.S. government is run by sociopaths. How else to explain the Trump administration’s callous disregard for…
Iran hard-liners storm shrines closed due to coronavirus
Al-Monitor – As of March 17, the coronavirus epidemic in Iran had killed nearly a thousand people and infected over 16,000 others.…
Syria enters its tenth year of war
Euronews with AP – In a world gripped by a pandemic, global unrest and a fast-moving news cycle, it can be difficult…
Shutters come down for Iran’s cafés and restaurants
Bourse and Bazaar | Khosro Kalbasi: While Iran’s economy has struggled over the last two years, the country experienced a boom in…
‘Virus at Iran’s gates’: How Tehran failed to stop outbreak
AP | JON GAMBRELL: Appearing before the cameras coughing and sweating profusely, the man leading Iran’s response to the new coronavirus outbreak…
Iran asks people to stay home for Nowruz holidays
Al-Monitor – Iranian officials have so far resisted calls for mandatory quarantine of areas with high infections of COVID-19. Instead, authorities have…
Iran’s CB lists businesses directly affected by COVID-19
Financial Tribune – The Central Bank of Iran has released a list of businesses that have been directly affected by the outbreak…
Amid coronavirus chaos, US and Iran edge closer to war
The Intercept | Murtaza Hussain: If you listened closely this week, behind the terrifying clamor of Covid-19 sweeping across the planet, you…
Iranians from all walks of life do their part in anti-virus campaign
Press TV – Since the beginning of a coronavirus epidemic in Iran in late February, Iranian people from all walks of life…
Central Bank of Iran: Q3 growth at 1.2%
Financial Tribune – Iran’s gross domestic product in the third quarter of the current Iranian year (March 21-Dec. 21, 2019) stood at…
Shamkhani’s visit signifies Tehran’s prominent role in Iraq
Financial Tribune – The recent visit by Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Ali Shamkhani to Iraq indicates that Tehran still…
Iran-US relations and the Corona Virus crisis
The Dispatch | Tridivesh Singh Maini: Iran has asked the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for emergency funding (it is for the first…
In search of junub, the hippie spirit of Iran’s south
The Guardian – Among Iranian youths, junub carries much more meaning than just its literal definition of south. It has long been…
Iran urges people to stay home as virus kills 113
AFP – Iran shut a key Shia tomb and appealed Sunday to its citizens to stay at home to halt a coronavirus…
On Iranian nation’s model of containing COVID-19
MNA – The Iranian approach to fight the novel coronavirus seems to be a bit different from the rest of the world…
‘US Was Never Invited’: Claims Iran masterminded Taji base attack ‘Deny Iraqis Agency’
Sputnik – The US government can expect continued military resistance in the Middle East as long as it continues its illegal occupation…
Iran says worsening outbreak could strain health facilities
AP | NASSER KARIMI and JOSEPH KRAUSS: Iran’s official leading the response to the worst coronavirus outbreak in the Middle East on…
Religious services curbed across Mideast over virus fears
AP | JOSEPH KRAUSS: Religious authorities cancelled or limited weekly prayer gatherings across the Middle East on Friday to help prevent the…
At the Iranian border, Iraqis try to keep a virus from entering
The New York Times | Alissa J. Rubin: Iran has one of the world’s largest concentrations of the coronavirus. Iraq has had…
Iranian Supreme Leader says evidence suggests that coronavirus outbreak is ‘Biological Attack’
Sputnik – Previously, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian suggested on his Twitter page that the COVID-19 coronavirus could have been “brought”…
Revolutionary Guards to enforce coronavirus controls in Iran
The Guardian | Patrick Wintour: Iran’s Revolutionary Guards are to clear streets, shops and public places in the country within the next…
Baghdad angered by US strikes against Iran-backed group in Iraq
The Wall Street Journal | Gordon Lubold, Nancy A. Youssef and Isabel Coles: Iraqi officials reacted angrily on Friday to American airstrikes…
An unhappy Persian New Year in Tehran
Bloomberg | Arsalan Shahla: The days before March 21 this year were supposed to be busy with shoppers in Tehran and elsewhere…
Coronavirus: Iran’s Nowruz celebrations halted at the end of a terrible year
Middle East Eye | Rohollah Faghihi: Besides claiming lives in Iran, coronavirus has also taken the joy out of new year celebrations For…
Iran’s top security body rejects lockdown of epidemic areas
Al-Monitor – Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), formed by its most powerful officials and chaired by President Hassan Rouhani, has rejected…
After a buildup to counter Iran, US troops begin leaving Mideast
The Wall Street Journal | Nancy A. Youssef and Gordon Lubold: U.S. trimming the 90,000 troops across the region as Iran, ravaged…
Mountain couriers brave bullets along Iran-Iraq border
Al-Monitor | Dana Taib Menmy: Work can be dangerous for the Kurds hired to carry goods across the Iran-Iraq border. “Facing harsh…
How Iran’s next parliament will affect foreign policy
Al-Monitor | Alireza Noori: As expected, conservatives (known as Principlists) won Iran’s parliamentary election Feb. 21 with about 85% of the vote.…