Iraqi security and pro-Iranian paramilitary forces are shooting into crowds of protesters in a bid to drive them from the centre of Baghdad and end six weeks of...
A new report has confirmed what some analysts have been saying for some time: that Iran is winning the regional struggle for strategic influence. The...
Amidst all the political brouhaha regarding foreign aid, it is important that we keep in mind the nature and purposes of this particular federal program,...
Iran is promoting a new generation of more precise weapons and the fear is they will be used against Israel. Most worrisome to Israel’s military is that what happened in...
The Yarsan faith is of one of the oldest in the Middle East. Also known as Ahl-e Haqq (People of the Truth), it is estimated to have between one and...
Shiraz Valley (Shiraz Strait) is located in Lorestan province, Kuhdasht district of Zardalan province, in an area called Uladghabad in western Iran. This lush area...
Tehran announced on November 7 that it has begun refining uranium at Fordow, a secretive site built inside a mountain to the north of the holy city...
Conditions within Iran prevent the Rouhani administration from working with the Trump administration to settle the nuclear issue. Military and social accomplishments coupled with economic endurance have emboldened officials of...
On Sunday, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani announced that a new oil field containing some 53 billion barrels of crude oil had been discovered in Iran’s...
What happens if the two premises on which Israel and America’s grand Iran strategy is founded are proven false? ‘What if’ maximum pressure fails either...
This visual highlights the countries around the world that contribute to Israel’s arms industry by buying weapons “field tested” on Palestinians. Israel sustains its apartheid...
What's up with Jared Kushner's great Middle East peace plan? It seems to be as much alive as that famous parrot. The other big Middle East...
Thinktank says third parties such as Shia militias are more important to Tehran than nuclear plans. The report warns against simplistic labelling the third parties as “proxies”, pointing out Tehran...
Eighteen months after Washington quit the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement, Tehran is proceeding with staggered steps away from its own compliance. The deal is unravelling...
The power-sharing agreement signed in Riyadh on November 5 between the Saudi-backed Yemeni government headed by Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi and UAE-backed southern separatist group known...
Tehran Has Survived U.S. Sanctions. Its Nuclear Program and Regional Activities Will, Too.
Behind the scenes of Iraq’s demonstrations, a decades-old rivalry between two centres of religious learning and authority, one local and the other in Iran, is...
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan met Saudi Arabia’s King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman in October 2019 following a two day trip to Iran to discuss regional tensions. Despite...
Recent developments suggest that the US and its allies have become increasingly wary of China’s expanding influence inside Iraq, even while Washington continuously points out...
Oh, oh, here we are again! In 1967, it was then the ‘threat’ of the standing Arab Armies (and the ensuing six-day war on Egypt...
Given the history of U.S. interventions and Iran’s experience of the coup, it comes as no surprise that in late 1979, when the Shah was admitted into the United States...
I have spoken with many in France’s huge expatriate Lebanese community – and from all groups – and not a single person has ever claimed...
There is a certain irony in President Donald Trump’s frequently expressed desire to withdraw from the endless wars that have characterized the so-called “global war...
“You’re Persian and Polish? I don’t believe it.” Constantly trying to validate my cultural background to people can be exhausting. Unfortunately, I have received many comments like this from my...
President Trump and his lieutenants have a penchant for Middle Eastern monarchs. In close to three years in power, the administration has courted or hosted virtually all the region’s unelected...
Since a new government came to power last year in Armenia, the tiny South Caucasus nation has embarked on a non-aligned international policy. It has...
The best strategy for the legitimate protesters is to press the current governments for reform. The governments in Iraq and in Lebanon have both already agreed to make certain changes....
For young artists in Tehran, censorship defines their creative expression. Photography has always had the power to turn audiences into witnesses, and Iranian artist AliA takes the process one step...
No one would have thought that out of the US president Donald Trump’s decision three weeks ago to withdraw all American troops from Syria, a US military...
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