On 21 February, Iran held critical elections for its 290-seat Islamic Consultative Assembly and simultaneously partial elections for its 88-member Assembly of Experts elected in 2016 for an eight-year term, to replace seats in the provinces of (...)
Amid intensified disputes between the US and Iran, Japan emerged as a new channel for mediation between the two countries. The Iranian nuclear file, Tehran's role in destabilising its regional neighbours and the absence of direct talks between the (...)
The Iranian regime is facing countless pressures both at home and abroad, but perhaps the most pressing stems from US President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from the nuclear agreement Tehran signed with the West in 2015.
Trump simultaneously (...)
The Iranian regime is facing countless pressures both at home and abroad, but perhaps the most pressing stems from US President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from the nuclear agreement Tehran signed with the West in 2015.
Trump simultaneously (...)
Since the Islamic Revolution in Iran, relations between Tehran and Rabat have swung between relative calm and rupture.
Despite the strategic importance that Iran attaches to the countries of North Africa, it has been unable to sustain a good (...)
Since the Islamic Revolution in Iran, relations between Tehran and Rabat have swung between relative calm and rupture. Despite the strategic importance that Iran attaches to the countries of North Africa, it has been unable to sustain a good (...)
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The wave of protest demonstrations that struck Iran 27 December had not been unexpected in view of the deteriorating economic circumstances in the country in spite of the partial lifting of sanctions following the signing of the (...)
Iran just concluded a major electoral season last week amidst a climate that, at the very least, can be described as complicated and fast paced. The season opened with a record number of presidential hopefuls who registered to run. Over 1,630 (...)
Iran is in the run-up to an important electoral juncture. On 19 May, Iranians will be heading to the polls to choose among the candidates for what will be Iran's twelfth presidential elections which is being held in tandem with the fifth municipal (...)
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi said this week that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan would soon visit Tehran, although an exact date had yet to be decided, in an announcement that has sparked discussion of what sort of (...)
Since rumours regarding the failing health of the supreme leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran were first whispered in 2000, and increasingly after they were confirmed when he underwent surgery in 2014, the question of the selection of his (...)
Iranians voted in two fateful elections on 26 February, one to elect 290 members of the Islamic Consultative Assembly, Iran's parliament, and the other to select the 88 clerics who make up the Assembly of Experts.
The elections are the first since (...)
On 26 February, Iranians will head to the polls to elect two government bodies, the Assembly of Experts (the fifth in the history of the Islamic Republic) and the Islamic Consultative Assembly, or parliament (the tenth legislative assembly since the (...)