How Europe is dealing with Iran’s new hardline president
Expectations are low but there will be room for cooperation, particularly if both sides focus on essential interests.
Expectations are low but there will be room for cooperation, particularly if both sides focus on essential interests.
With hardliners in control of all aspects of government, failure cannot be blamed on reformists.
Ebrihim Raisi came out swinging at his first press conference, indicating new challenges ahead for Washington-Tehran diplomacy.
Reporting on potential membership of the SCO further counters the Western narrative that Iran is internationally isolated.
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Ebrahim Raisi won Friday’s low turnout election; American regime change proponents have been cheering him for years.
The expected winner will probably focus more attention on auditioning to replace the Supreme Leader.
Maximum pressure has undermined centrists and reformers, setting up a rigged election with an increasingly certain outcome.
Before they were prime minister, two Israelis were leaders of violent political movements that killed innocent people.
Israel’s longest serving prime minister beat the Iran war drums for years and finally got the ear of an American president in Donald Trump.
The journalistic ‘voice of God’ is often used to defend interventionist policies or push our leaders to do something about, well, everything.
Offering no evidence, lawmakers are accusing Ariane Tabatabai of dual loyalty and demanding her security clearance be revoked.
Politico is hyping a ‘threat’ that may or may not be happening, but even if it was, there’s no need to hit the panic button.
A flurry of recent diplomacy suggests efforts underway to mend the rivalries that have fueled Arab wars over the past decade.
With reformists out of the picture, the contest will serve as a mere formality for hardliners.
Iran’s support for Palestinian militants is a two-edged sword, as they have their own political and strategic calculations.
Our partners in the region sense the United States is leaving and they need to take care of business themselves. It’s not rocket science.
Lawmaker uses climate hearing to question the envoy’s honesty about an alleged conversation regarding Israeli airstrikes in Syria.
JCPOA opponents have been cherry picking an IMF report to claim Trump’s ‘maximum pressure’ campaign worked.
America’s most urgent infrastructure vulnerability is largely invisible and unlikely to be fixed by Biden’s $2 trillion American Jobs Plan.
Proponents of diplomacy with Iran say the measure may have been meant to complicate the ongoing talks in Vienna.