The Guardian view on Saudi Arabia: in need of new leadership
The Guardian – Saudi Arabia is facing its biggest diplomatic crisis with the west since the 9/11 attacks on the Twin Towers – and…
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New sanctions on Iran’s Parsian Bank threaten humanitarian trade
Bourse and Bazaar | Esfandyar Batmanghelidj: On Tuesday, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) applied new sanctions on…
Iran nuclear deal breakdown: What does it mean for European business?
Geopolitical Monitor | Ben H. Quandt: The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (“JCPOA”), as it is formally known, is the culmination of…
IRGC masses troops on Iraq border amid rising tensions with Kurdish groups
Al-Monitor | Fazel Hawramy: Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is launching increasingly daring operations to degrade the capabilities of armed Kurdish…
Rouhani touts meeting with top economists on containing crisis
Al-Monitor – In a closed three-hour meeting with 40 Iranian economists on Oct. 15, President Hassan Rouhani insisted that the country’s economy…
Trump’s ‘Arab NATO’ project is doomed | Opinion
News Week | Seyed Hossein Mousavian: With the stated aim of containing “Iran’s malign behavior” and bringing “stability to the region,” the…
US, Saudi trying to ‘whitewash’ Khashoggi murder: Fmr. US diplomat
Press TV – The administration of US President Donald Trump is trying to “whitewash” Saudi Arabia’s murder of missing journalist Jamal Khashoggi,…
Iran hedges bets on EU, China with focus on trade with neighbors
Al-Monitor | Mohsen Shariatinia: At an initial glance, one might assume that Tehran’s paths for dealing with Washington’s reimposed sanctions all end…
Iran oil outlook ‘very solid’ despite US sanctions
Press TV – Iran’s senior officials remain generally upbeat about the country’s oil production outlook despite looming US sanctions which seek to…
Khashoggi case will force Trump to do something: ex-senior CIA official
Tehran Times | Javad Heirannia: Professor Paul Pillar, who was CIA intelligence analyst for 28 years, tells the Tehran Times that Khashoggi case…
US isolation unprecedented in history of int’l relations: Expert
Iranian Diplomacy – There has never been a US administration more isolated internationally than the current government under Donald Trump, says an…
Iranian papers ask US outlets to condemn sanctions
Al-Monitor – In a joint editorial, four of Tehran’s top newspapers decried the US exit from the nuclear deal and asked American…
Time to face up to emperor Bin Salman – He has no clothes
FNA – On Sunday, Saudi stocks endured their biggest fall in nearly four years over journalist Jamal Khashoggi who was murdered last…
Will Khashoggi case spark Turkish-Saudi crisis?
Alwaght – Turkey and Saudi Arabia are both influential powers in the region. The rise of the Justice and Development Party in…
Iran’s vision for Iraqi market on track despite US sanctions
Press TV – Iran is pushing forth with a 2025 vision plan to raise its exports to Iraq to $20 billion a…
Iran’s new breed of charities on poverty frontline
Bourse and Bazaar | AFP: At an outreach centre in southern Tehran, teenagers are learning to be journalists, while upstairs their mothers are fine-tuning…
Accession to FATF bills will facilitate banking relations: Analyst
Iran Daily – The approval of FATF bills by the Parliament is a stepping stone for the Iranian banks to open up…
EU financial mechanism not a panacea for Iran’s economic woes
Iranian Diplomacy – Tehran should grasp ample economic opportunities in its geoeconomic surrounding. By Sadegh Kharrazi, former ambassador to France. Following the…
Bush & Blair’s Iraq war was key that opened door to Syria’s current hell
RT | John Wight: If the pain of birth is the price of life, Syria’s birth as a truly independent nation has come…
Khashoggi’s assassination: Political fallout
Iranian Diplomacy | Kaveh L. Afrasiabi: The alleged murder of Saudi dissident journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, at the Saudi consulate in Turkey has…
Oil could spike to $100 as Iranian exports shrink & Venezuelan economy collapses, analysts tell RT
RT – The crude rally is likely to continue this year as OPEC countries are losing their exports, analysts told RT. The…
‘It’s not helpful’: US warns India against buying Iran oil, Russian S-400s
Sputnik – On Thursday, US President Donald Trump promised that India will soon see his decision on punitive measures after New Delhi…
Sanctions imposed on Iran contrary to UN charter: ex-UN official
MNA – Richard Anderson Falk, professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University says “the US during the Trump presidency has insisted…
Iran’s point man on the Middle East speaks his mind
Press TV | Hossein Jelveh: “To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.” That oft-quoted but mischievous characterization…
War by other means
The New York Times | Carol Giacomo: Some American officials appear to hope that resumed sanctions on Iran will lead to a popular…
Saudi Arabia and extra oil output; challenges & restrictions
SHANA – The US withdrawal from Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal with six world powers and Washington’s attempts to cut Iran’s oil exports…
Iran media: Haley resigned after failing Trump at UN Security Council
Al-Monitor – The “sudden” and “enigmatic” resignation by Nikki Haley from her position as US ambassador to the United Nations hit the…
Iran maneuvers to win back public trust in the rial
Al-Monitor | Maziar Motamedi : After months of a drastic and ongoing depreciation, the Iranian rial started recouping losses last week, mostly…
The U.S. can’t challenge Iran without allies
Bloomberg | Editorial Board: The Trump administration should avoid escalating its quarrel with Europe over sanctions. The Trump administration seems determined to…
Iran’s security forces face calls for accountability in wake of terrorist attack
Al-Monitor | Ehsan Bodaghi: Nearly three weeks have passed since a deadly terrorist attack targeted a military parade in Iran’s southwestern city…
Iran oil exports on the rise
MNA – Recent data released by TankerTrakers.com indicates that Iran’s oil exports are much higher than what has been announced by some…
Trump’s new Iran sanctions may hit snag with global financial service
The New York Times| Peter Eavis: President Trump’s “America First” foreign policy has run into an obscure obstacle at the heart of…
World’s top traders divided on oil outlook as Iran sanctions loom
Reuters | Julia Payne, Dmitry Zhdannikov: The world’s biggest trading houses said on Wednesday they saw oil prices not falling below $65 per…
Examples of how Trump talks, acts like gangsters
Alwaght- Donald Trump’s election as US president has made drastic changes in the US politics and society. Beside influencing the US home…
Iranian media see Saudi-Turkey rift in Khashoggi case
Al-Monitor – Given that Saudi Arabia is Iran’s main regional rival, Iranian censors have allowed the Iranian media to extensively cover the…
How the Tehran Stock Exchange rally could benefit the Iranian economy
Al-Monitor | Navid Kalhor: The Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE) has hit astonishingly new highs in past months, netting a return of above…
Europe’s Iran sanctions vow takes a hit as ministers desert Bali
Bloomberg | Alessandro Speciale, Birgit Jennen, and William Horobin: The European Union’s determination to uphold the Iran nuclear agreement and circumvent U.S. sanctions took another…
Analysis: China LPG importers hit as US and Iran supplies squeezed
S&P Global Platts | Eric Yep, Cindy Liang: Chinese importers of LPG have been hit with higher prices and narrower margins as…
CFT approval, another step to bypass US sanctions
Iranian Diplomacy – Following many ups and downs and flip-flops the Iranian Parliament eventually passed a bill on Sunday on combating the…
Nikki Haley says U.S. is now respected. Some say, Keep on tryin’
Euronews | Alexander Smith with NBC News World News: Nikki Haley made a bold claim about the Trump administration’s world standing when she announced…