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Iran’s ambassador to the Vienna-based international Kazim Gharibabadi said Iran will not accept any limit to its exports of oil when the situation normalizes with the lifting of the most draconian US sanctions on the country. Iran’s ambassador and permanent representative to international organizations in Vienna, Kazem Gharibabadi, reiterated the …
Read More »New Iranian President Raisi Sworn In Before Parliament
Ebrahim Raisi took his oath before parliament on August 5 to complete his inauguration making him Iran’s new president. He comes to office facing an economy battered by U.S. sanctions, a growing health crisis, fast-rising regional tensions, and difficult negotiations to revive a 2015 nuclear deal with world powers. A …
Read More »‘US Sanctions Against Iran Must Be Lifted’, Raisi Demands
“We support any diplomatic plan that achieves this goal,” he said, insisting that his country’s nuclear program is peaceful. During the inauguration ceremony held on Thursday, President Ebrahim Raisi assured that U.S. sanctions against Iran must be lifted. “We support any diplomatic plan that achieves this goal,” he said, insisting …
Read More »A Way Forward With Iran? Options for Crafting a U.S. Strategy
Any discussion of a Biden administration strategy on Iran must begin with an analysis of how previous U.S. administrations have approached the threat posed by Iran. From the very start of the Islamic Republic forty-one years ago, U.S.-Iran relations have been fraught with mistrust, animosity, threats, and occasional active hostilities, …
Read More »Britain’s Top General Calls for Retaliation on Iran for Drone Strike
Britain’s top military commander, General Nick Carter, said Wednesday that Western powers need to retaliate for a suspected Iranian drone strike on an oil tanker, which killed a British security guard and the ship’s Romanian captain — otherwise Tehran will feel emboldened. Speaking to the BBC, Carter, chief of the …
Read More »Hijackers leave vessel in Gulf of Oman, British navy group says
Military says ‘incident complete’ after reports of armed men commandeering ship near UAE; details surrounding episode remain unclear The British navy says the hijackers who boarded a vessel off the coast of the United Arab Emirates in the Gulf of Oman have left the targeted ship, without elaborating. The notice …
Read More »Israel considers options after drone attack on ship blamed on Iran
The drone attack against an Israeli-managed oil tanker last week revealed Israel’s soft underbelly at sea, and forces its leadership to consider how to retaliate. Had Prime Minister Naftali Bennett been Israel’s defense minister or just a member of its Security Cabinet, he would have surely banged on the table …
Read More »Iran JCPOA: A bridge too far?
Ebrahim Raisi will be sworn in as Iran’s next president on August 5, marking a defining moment in the situation around the nuclear issue. Having weathered the brunt of Trump’s ‘maximum pressure’, Tehran is in a better situation today. The international situation works in its favour too. Iran has gained …
Read More »Blinken vows ‘collective response’ for ship attack blamed on Iran
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the United States is confident that Iran carried out the attack on the Israeli-linked oil tanker. The United States is “confident” that Iran is responsible for an attack on an Israeli-linked oil tanker that killed two crew members off the coast of Oman last …
Read More »Raisi pledges to save Iran from sanctions, restore public trust
The new Iranian president said he will push to get harsh sanctions lifted without hinging Iran’s battered economy on the West. As he was officially endorsed by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran Aug. 3, Iran’s new President Ebrahim Raisi pledged to get the country’s sanctions-stricken economy back on …
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