Reuters |Parisa Hafezi: Washingtons policy of applying maximum pressure on Iran with wide-ranging sanctions has shredded the countrys oil revenues, sent its economy into recession and devalued its national currency. Yet Iran remains defiant in the face of U.S. efforts to compel it to accept tougher restrictions on its nuclear program and scale back ...

MNA Ali Vaez, director of the Iran program for International Crisis Group says that US is clearly trying to push Iran to walk away from the nuclear deal and that the new nuclear restrictions are aimed at pushing other JCPOA signatories to join Washington in violating the deal. He also adds that Iran's oil exports are unlikely to reach zero, as ...

The Washington Post | Jason Rezaian: During the Obama administration, critics of the presidents engagement policy with Iran constantly complained that journalists and analysts with little knowledge of Iran were parroting the White House line. I cant speak to that, since during that time I was reporting from Tehran (and later sitting in prison for doing ...

Iranian Diplomacy | Javad Heirannia: Ali Vaez, director of the Iran program for International Crisis Group says that SPV is not a magic solution, and it may take a few months before its success can be truly assessed. He also adds that there is no relation between delays in launching the SPV and Iran missile program. Following is the full text of ...

Bourse and Bazaar | AFP: Iraq could bear the brunt if conflictintensifies between Iran and the United States, a think-tank study saidWednesday. The International Crisis Group, which researches ways to prevent war,interviewed officials around the world including Iran for an extensive reporton the state of the 2015 denuclearization accord ...

Sputnik - A group of US senators has initiated a bill which would allow the president to renew economic restrictions against Iran a maneuver experts warn could kill the landmark Iranian nuclear deal reached in 2015. Senior Iran expert Dr. Ali Vaez warns that such a scenario may ultimately result in a military conflict breaking out between Iran and ...

LONDON International officials involved in negotiating the preliminary agreement with Iran on its nuclear program say it is the first step toward guaranteeing that Iran is nuclear weapons-free thus making the world a safer place. But that would also potentially create a sanctions-free Iranian economy potentially enabling Iran to use other elements ...

Geneva Talks between Iran and world powers known as the P5+1 over Irans nuclear program wrapped up here with expressions of encouragement and hope, a commitment to reconvene in just three weeks, and several welcomed firsts. Officials remained determinedly mum Wednesday about the much sought-after details of the new PowerPoint proposal that Iranian ...

DUBAI(Reuters) - The United States should hold confidential direct talks with Iran over its nuclear program but the West should not expect Iran's moderate new president to offer major concessions, a prominent think-tank said on Tuesday. To try to give the talks a chance, however, Washington and other world powers should hold off imposing new sanctions ...

"I will be in touch soon" was how EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton described her next contact with Iran after talks in Almaty ended without even an agreement to meet again. But can it be soon enough to ease growing anxiety over Iran's nuclear programme and stave off more crippling sanctions? "Another failed diplomatic foray is likely to ...

By Reuters BRUSSELS/VIENNA, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Big powers may ask Iran for stricter limits on its nuclear work if it wants an easing of harsh sanctions - a long-shot approach aimed at yielding a negotiated solution that has eluded them for more than a decade. A solution to the standoff is increasingly urgent. The longer the impasse goes on, the ...