Iran’s hard-liners in tug of war over parliament speakership
Al-Monitor | Sarbas Nazari: Iran’s new parliament, which is to be inaugurated May 28, is seeing an spirited battle between a number…
Al-Monitor | Sarbas Nazari: Iran’s new parliament, which is to be inaugurated May 28, is seeing an spirited battle between a number…
Al-Monitor – As of March 17, the coronavirus epidemic in Iran had killed nearly a thousand people and infected over 16,000 others.…
Al-Monitor – After a week of lackluster campaigning, Iran held a parliamentary vote Feb. 21, with the country’s leadership issuing persistent calls…
Al-Monitor | Saeid Jafari: The race for the Islamic Republic’s 11th parliament is likely to turn into one of the most peculiar…
Radio Free Europe | Golnaz Esfandiari: With Iranian parliamentary elections just a month away, there are increasing signs that the vote will…
Bourse and Bazaar | Golnar Motevalli and Arsalan Shahla: After a dozen years as speaker of Iran’s parliament, half of them allied…
Al-Monitor | Rohollah Faghihi: Feeling the heat, Iranian hard-liners are distancing themselves from the government’s fuel price hike. The government announced Nov.…
Al-Monitor – The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) has started work on a fresh phase of scaling back commitments under the…
Al-Monitor – The geo-economic aspects of President Hassan Rouhani’s visit to Iraq couldn’t be more pleasing to Iran’s conservatives. Ever since the…
Al-Monitor | Saeid Jafari: There are indications that French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian’s recent visit to Iran was not very successful…
Rouhani’s opponents – who see him as a threat to many of their interests – are targeting a struggling economy and the…
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s official IRNA news agency is reporting around 50 hard-line students and activists have staged a rally, calling…
Middle East future hinges on which force emerges as main beneficiary of expected accord ISTANBUL—Reformers and hard-liners in the Iranian regime have…
Tehran, May 1, IRNA – Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif answered some Iranian critics about his interview with Charlie Rose, but his…
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian University Students are staging a sit-in in front of the parliament to voice protest at the results of several…
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — As Iran’s nuclear negotiators returned home with the framework of a deal with world powers, joyous revelers joked…
Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, the country’s diplomatic heavyweight behind the nuclear deal, has reached out to Iranian hardliners. Zarif, who…
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s hard-liners are criticizing a tentative nuclear agreement between Iran and world powers, saying the deal was a bargain…
(Bloomberg) — Iranian hardliners warned their top diplomats against making concessions that contravene red lines set down by the country’s highest authority,…
A nuclear pact means our regime will have to surrender its No. 1 justification for its actions: anti-Americanism. he nuclear negotiation between…
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranians lit bonfires, set off fireworks and sent wish lanterns floating into the night sky Tuesday to celebrate…
Iranian MPs will not derail a nuclear deal with the West, as US lawmakers have threatened to, if the country’s supreme leader…
It came after senior clerics based in the holy city threw their weight behind President Rouhani’s administration during his recent visit to…
The possibility of a nuclear deal between Iran and global powers is the subject of much debate in the Islamic republic. The…
Hard-line Iranian Parliament member Hamid Rasaei has been on a mission to connect the case of detained Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian…
IFP has taken a look at the front pages of newspapers on Sunday and picked headlines from 16 of them. IFP has…
With nuclear talks showing little advance towards a comprehensive settlement, President Rouhani has again challenged hardline critics in Iran. Speaking at a…
The United States and Iran are making partial diplomatic headway as they resumed nuclear negotiations onJanuary 18 in Geneva. Although the six world…
LONDON — America and Iran took a step toward a final nuclear deal on Jan. 18, but they should be making leaps. The negotiators…
A 15-minute stroll in Switzerland with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has landed Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in hot…
Dariush Sajjadi, a reformist blogger, challenges Rouhani’s call for a referendum, saying people’s direct vote will do little to make a breakthrough…
Iranians are considering the significance of President Rouhani’s declaration on Sunday, amid his escalating fight with hardliners, that Iran should have direct…
TEHRAN — Iran’s president said Sunday that he might invoke a powerful but neglected tool in his fight with hard-liners, suggesting the possibility…
Tehran, Jan 4, IRNA – President Hassan Rouhani highlighted an article of the Iranian Constitution which proposes public referendum for setting up…
(Reuters) – A seven-month extension in talks between world powers and Iran on a deal to curb its nuclear program emboldened critics in Washington…
Negotiators in Vienna missed today’s deadline for a nuclear agreement. Some observers have expressed concern over the length of the extension announced…
VIENNA (AP) — Iran and six world powers are closer than ever to a deal that would crimp Tehran’s ability to make…
In the 10 months since his band was given official permission to perform, Iranian rock singer Ardavan Anzabipour has learned when to…
With Iran’s nuclear talks with the 5+1 Powers entering a critical phase, the Tehran Friday Prayer of Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami (pictured) put…