Military pact with Russia clear Iranian response to west: Expert
Alwaght – Amid tensions in the Persian Gulf between Iran and Washington and the Washington’s attempts to build an anti-Tehran coalition on…
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The end of John Bolton’s political life
Tehran Times – In recent days, some media have been reporting the possibility of the removal of US National Security Adviser John…
Release of Grace 1 marks a suicide for Bolton
Tehran Times – When Britain impounded the Iranian oil tanker Grace 1 on July 4, John Bolton, Donald Trump’s ultra-hawkish national security…
Message behind release of Iranian oil tanker
MNA – The Gibraltar court ordered the Iranian oil tanker Grace 1 to be released. The tanker was seized by the British…
US sanctions are killing cancer patients in Iran
Foreign Policy | Abbas Kebriaeezadeh: Washington claims that maximum pressure won’t stop the supply of medicine and other humanitarian necessities, but banking…
US-China trade war and Iranian oil: Market disruptions ahead?
Geopolitical Monitor | Tanmay Kadam: The escalating trade war between U.S. and China has given rise to the prospect of two possible…
Trump’s sanctions on Iran block way for any kind of dialogue: professor
Tehran Times – A professor of political science and international relations at the University of California believes that U.S. President Donald Trump’s…
Tehran works to bring neighbors onboard against US maritime coalition
Al-Monitor – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani had a hectic day Aug. 12, talking to heads of state in his country’s vicinity and…
As US pressure increases on Iran-backed militias, they turn to Iran
Al-Monitor | Ali Mamouri: Iran-backed Shiite militias have been under increasing pressure recently in Iraq not only from the United States —…
Why Trump’s ‘maximum pressure’ foreign policy yields minimum results
The Guardian | Julian Borger: Donald Trump is heading into the 2020 elections with no clear-cut foreign policy successes, some dramatic failures…
The White House once labeled them terrorists. Now they’re being called Iran’s next government
Haaretz | Jonathan Harounoff: As tensions between the United States and Iran continue to escalate, many in President Donald Trump’s inner circle…
Can Iran combat corruption in petroleum sector?
Al-Monitor | Bijan Khajehpour: Iran’s anti-corruption campaign has gained a rare momentum. There is regular reporting about new arrests and court cases…
Israeli regime seeking to ignite conflict between PG states: scholar
MNA – An Iranian scholar believes that the Israeli regime’s participation in the US-led coalition in the Persian Gulf is aimed at…
Trump’s ‘coalition of one’ can’t beat Iran and China
The Washington Post | Max Boot: The premise behind President Trump’s “America First” foreign policy is that the United States is so…
China continued Iran oil imports in July in teeth of US sanctions: analysts
Reuters – China imported Iranian crude oil in July for the second month since a U.S. sanctions waiver ended, according to research…
US Congress redoubles efforts to limit Trump’s Iran war powers
Tehran Times – Twenty-eight lawmakers from both the Republican and Democratic parties are pushing legislation to ban the use of funds for…
Iran’s strength lies in continued patience
Tehran Times – It’s said that Donald Trump is likely to win re-election in 2020 if he avoids war with Iran, keeps…
Who has the main lead on Amano’s death?
MNA –The sudden death of Yukiya Amano, the Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) left many in shock. American and…
Oil could plunge by $30 If China restores Iranian oil imports
Oil Price | Tsvetana Paraskova: Should China decide to defy the latest U.S. tariff threat by ramping up imports of Iranian crude…
US failure to build naval coalition: Reasons, results
Alwaght – Following the suspicious attack on a Japanese oil tanker in the Persian Gulf in mid-June, the US government gradually unveiled…
Sanction on Zarif not action of responsible adult
MNA – John Limbert, the former US State Department diplomat believes that US sanction on Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is…
US sanctions on Zarif political pressure on Iran: ex-Azeri FM
MNA – The former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan Tofiq Zulfuqarov named US sanctions on Zarif a political pressure on Iran.…
Iran’s Zarif drives Trump to insanity
Asia Times | M.K. Bhadrakumar: At a time when the Trump administration has no problem negotiating with the secretary of the Russian…
US should rethink Middle East policy to avoid war with Iran
Washington Examiner | Daniel DePetris: U.S. foreign policy should be designed with one constituency in mind: the American public. The public expects policymakers…
US sanctions on foreign minister unite Iran’s fractious elite
The New York Times | Vivian Yee: Iranian officials reacted with unified irritation on Thursday to the Trump administration’s decision to sanction…
Sanctioning Zarif further undermines US diplomatic credibility
Lobe log | RobertE. Hunter: In the latest tit-for-tat in the battle between the United States and Iran, this week the Treasury…
Iran’s foreign minister was invited to meet Trump in the oval office
The New Yorker | Robin Wright: Last month, amid a rapid-fire escalation in tensions between Washington and Tehran, the Iranian Foreign Minister,…
Channeling liquidity into stock market to pick up production
MNA – The statistics show that stock market in Iran is moving toward more and more development and creating better conditions for…
Iran crisis forces UAE rethink of its regional entanglements
Bloomberg | Zainab Fattah: The sumptuous palace in Abu Dhabi was a world away from the shattered homeland he’d left behind. But…
Signs of tension reduction appearing in Persian Gulf
MNA – After years of tensions between Iran and some Persian Gulf states particularly in recent months in the Strait of Hormuz,…
Intel: How Russia is deepening military ties with Iran to counter the US
Al-Monitor | Maxim A. Suchkov : Russia and Iran are deepening their military ties in a joint challenge to perceived US hegemony…
Iran sanctions could weaken dollar, isolate US
The Wilson Times | Cyrus Shamloo: Russia has strengthened its ties with Iran in recent years as part of Moscow’s increased geopolitical…
India and China cannot rely on US oil as Iran troubles heat up
Nikkei | Vandana Hari: The threat to the Asia’s vital oil supplies from the Middle East has escalated sharply since four oil…
Seizure of UK oil tanker by Iran legal
MNA – Following the capture of British oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz by Iran, many of the countries, including the…
UK takes the bait on Iran and has to face the music: Analysis
Press TV – US President Donald Trump pulled out of the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), known commonly as the…
The paradox at the heart of Abbas Kiarostami’s early films
The New Yorker | Richard Brody: The nearly complete retrospective of the films of the late Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami, which runs…
UK, Iran treading troubled waters after seizing tankers
Al-Monitor | Makram Najmuddine: Two tankers stranded in two straits almost 4,000 miles apart are threatening to sink the already-adrift relationship between…
Under US sanctions, Iran regional influence grows
Atlantic Council | KENNETH KATZMAN: All US secondary sanctions on Iran’s core economic sectors were re-imposed by the Trump administration in November…
Did Trump’s ‘plan B’ for Iran just fail?
Tehran Times – The Trump administration’s plan to rally global naval powers to protect shipping lanes in the Persian Gulf is not…
US and China face off In Iranian conflict
Oil Price | Cyril Widdershoven: China’s relationship with Iran is being put to the test after US president Trump slammed sanctions on…