After fewer than 100 days in office, several of US President Donald Trump's manoeuvres that are crucial to satisfying his political base have thus far failed and in often embarrassing ways.
First, two executive orders regarding a travel ban to the (...)
Since the signature of the nuclear deal between Iran and six of the world's leading powers, commonly referred to in Iran by its Farsi acronym BARJAM, the position of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has been that the deal has “removed the shadow of (...)
In a region characterised by tension, the importance of maintaining political relations between Iran and the US cannot be underestimated. It is this relationship that largely determines the geopolitical climate of the Middle East as the two states (...)
The brutal battle for Aleppo in Syria has claimed hundreds of innocent lives, many of them children. It ended with the defeat of the Syrian militant rebel groups – primarily the Jabhat Fateh Al-Sham (formerly the Al-Qaeda-affiliated Al-Nusra Front), (...)
On 14 November, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), in its official political organ, Sobhe Sadeq (The True Dawn), offered several commentaries and analyses regarding Trump's election and its effect on Iran.
While the pieces offered a (...)
On 28 October, tens of thousands of Iranians from various parts of the country gathered at the tomb of King Cyrus the Great (Kourosh in Persian) in Pasargadae some 800 km south of Tehran to celebrate the day commonly recognised as his (...)
Music concerts have emerged as the newest battlefield in Iran, where conservatives have been attempting to show their strength against their moderate rivals led by the country's President Hassan Rouhani.
Ever since the conclusion of the nuclear deal (...)
Since an angry group of young Islamic revolutionaries overran the United States embassy in Tehran in 1979, the US has used every foreign policy tool, including covert operations, to tame Iran's hostile foreign policy.
Among these tools, sanctions (...)
During a speech to Iranian teachers on 2 May, Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, criticised the Iranian practice of “insisting on the promotion of English [language] alone”.
“The language of science is not English alone,” he said. “Other (...)
Many Western observers contend that the concept of jihad in the Islamic tradition justifies perpetual warring and violence within and outside the borders of the Muslim world.
In Arabic, jihad means “struggle”. In the Quran, jihad is most often used (...)
During Iraq's military offensive against Iran (1980-1988), then-Iranian President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani defended restoring relations with the United States. The peculiarity and significance of Rafsanjani's position is evident when one (...)
Since its inception in 1979, the Islamic Republic of Iran's nezam (establishment) has faced internal and external threats without interruption, some of them existential. These threats have included the eight-year Iran-Iraq War, the Kurdish armed (...)
In yet another fiery speech, Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ripped into the United States on 17 August. “If we want to make a case for [who this enemy is], it would be the United States of America regime, [which] is the manifestation (...)
After 12 years of fierce battling over Iran's nuclear programme between Iran and the West, a landmark deal between Iran and the P5+1 group of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany has been reached. Many analysts are (...)
While many signs justify optimism about the Iran nuclear deal — the relentless efforts and determination of United States Secretary of State John Kerry, for example — there still remain a number of unresolved issues that may yet scuttle the (...)
Since the inception of the Islamic Republic of Iran in 1978, Tehran has perceived “regime change” in Iran as the US establishment's ultimate aim. The country's strong mistrust of the US also has its roots in two factors.
First, as the Iranian (...)
On 13 April, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree to lift the ban on supplying an S-300 air-defence missile system to Iran. Tass, the Russian news agency, reported that the decree was effective immediately.
The S-300 is one of the most (...)