Obama signs bill on Iran nuclear agreement
President Obama has quietly signed the legislation allowing Congress to review any nuclear agreement with Iran. There was no formal ...
Month: May 2015
Iran not only place facing sandstorms
This storm engulfed the city of Golmud in Qinghai province in west central China. It’s not just Iran being pummeled ...
Iran hangings at 12-year high
Iran executed more people last year than in any of the previous 12 years, the United Nations’ special envoy on ...
Iranian and Hezbollah threats to Saudi Arabia: Past precedents
By Matthew Levitt On April 27, the head of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Maj. Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari, ...
Persian Empire, anyone?
By Hamid Dabashi ”Iran is piling one brick on the other,” warns one pundit with solemnity. “Today’s Iranians, with their Persian ...
Who really controls Iran’s economy?
By Emanuele Ottolenghi, Saeed Ghasseminejad The looming nuclear deal will soon unshackle Iran’s economy from the burden of Western sanctions. ...
On Iran, the GCC is paying the price of relying on Benjamin Netanyahu
By Shibley Telhami Despite the realization coming out of this month’s Camp David summit that the United States and the ...
Islamic Rep. has highest import tariffs in world
The Islamic Republic has the highest average tariff rates in the entire world, a fact that will make it difficult ...