Medium l Sharmine Narwani: It took a country-wide power outage in Venezuela, whispers of a cyberattack, and smug tweets from US officials to make me suddenly recall the cloak-and-dagger story of a close Iranian-American friend nine years ago. My friend, an engineer??who I will not name for obvious reasons and who I will call Kourosh for the purpose ...

RT- More US sanctions arent going to change Irans behavior and direct war doesnt seem a possibility, but the situation could be defused during a meeting between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, says writer and Middle East commentator Sharmine Narwani. Hundreds of thousands of people gathered this week in cities across Iran to mark the anniversary ...

VIENNA (Tasnim) Iran did not let the US raise any talk of regional issues in the course of negotiations over Tehran's nuclear program, a commentator and analyst of Middle East geopolitics said. In an interview with Tasnim in Vienna, Sharmine Narwani, a former senior associate at St. Antony's College, Oxford University, commented on the course of ...

[caption id="attachment_53621" align="alignright" width="180"] Syrian soldiers man a checkpoint at the entrance of al-Karama area in the central city of Homs on May 2, 2012.[/caption] TEHRAN (FNA)- Syria is entrapped in a mesmerizing and unusual conflict these days. Fighters from more than 80 countries, mostly the European and Arab allies of the United ...