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For real change through trade
| Updated at 12:05am on September 01, 2017
THE ink on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, also known as the Iran nuclear deal, had barely dried when the then German minister of...
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Iran could quit nuclear deal in ‘hours’ if new US sanctions imposed :Rouhani
Reuters | Updated at 12:53pm on August 15, 2017
Iran could abandon its nuclear deal with world powers ‘within hours’, if the United States continues to impose new sanctions, Iranian...
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US imposes new sanctions targeting Iran’s ballistic missile programme
Agence France-Presse . Washington | Updated at 12:16am on July 29, 2017
he United States on Friday imposed new sanctions targeting Iran’s ballistic missile programme, one day after Tehran tested a satellite-launch rocket...
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Iran slams Trump for instability, rejects ‘rogue’ label
Reuters . Dubai | Updated at 01:21am on July 16, 2017
Iran on Saturday blamed what it called Donald Trump’s ‘arbitrary and conflicting policies’ for global security threats, rejecting the US president’s description of Tehran as...
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Iran ups the ante in Syria: what’s the message?
by Salman Rafi Sheikh | Updated at 12:05am on July 15, 2017
After the US shot down a second Iran made armed drone on Syria and a Syrian jet in a separate case in last two weeks,...
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Iran, the US and the world
by Robert Fantina | Updated at 12:05am on July 11, 2017
MAINTAINING a straight face, United States secretary of ‘defence’ James Mattis calls Iran ‘the primary state sponsor of terrorism’. This from the man whose country...
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Chalk and cheese
| Updated at 12:05am on July 07, 2017
ARE Iran and Saudi Arabia uninhabited regions, without citizens, without societies? These days, people frequently talk about both these nations as though they were solely...
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Iran fires missiles at militant groups in eastern Syria
Reuters . Beirut | Updated at 01:27am on June 19, 2017
The Iranian Revolutionary Guards fired ground-to-ground missiles from western Iran into eastern Syria, aiming at the bases of militant groups Iran held responsible for attacks...
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Deciphering the Iranian elections
by Akbar E. Torbat | Updated at 12:05am on June 18, 2017
IRANIANS voted in the presidential as well as the city and village councils elections on May 19. The two elections were arranged to be on...
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Iran’s Khamenei blames US for regional instability, creation of Islamic State
Reuters . Ankara | Updated at 01:28am on June 13, 2017
Iran’s supreme leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei on Monday blamed the United States for instability in the Middle East and also said Washington’s fight against Islamic...