Washington and Tehran have been engaged in indirect negotiations in Vienna since April to return to the JCPOA, the nuclear agreement between Iran and world powers reached in 2015. Iran is trying to avoid responsibility for not returning to its nuclear deal with world powers, the US State Department said …
Read More »Gantz denies New Yorker report of pushing US to strike Iran
“We should not push America to fight for us,” the defense minister said. “Iran is a regional and global problem.” Defense Minister Benny Gantz denied a report in The New Yorker on Saturday night, telling Channel 12: “I don’t know of this story and I assume this is not what …
Read More »Has Iran launched a new stealth missile boat?
A new Iranian ship is one of several under construction that will be called the Shahed Soleimani class of stealth ships. Iran has launched one of its new stealthy catamaran “missile corvettes” according to open-source intelligence analyzed by expert H.I. Sutton, who runs the Cover Shores website. He noted that …
Read More »US: Iran ‘deflecting blame’ for not returning to nuclear deal
Washington and Tehran have been engaged in indirect negotiations in Vienna since April to return to the JCPOA, the nuclear agreement between Iran and world powers reached in 2015. Iran is trying to avoid responsibility for not returning to its nuclear deal with world powers, the US State Department said …
Read More »Iran and South Caucasus Railway Connections after the Nagorno-Karabakh War
After the Second Karabakh War, the tripartite ceasefire agreement on November 10, 2020, opens a possibility for Iran to become connected to the southern railway network in the South Caucasus. As a result of the First Nagorno-Karabakh War, an important part of the South Caucasus Railway, which passed through the …
Read More »Iran’s uranium gambit is a dangerous negotiating tactic
On July 6, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reported that Iran was moving ahead with manufacturing “uranium metal enriched to 20 percent U-235 [uranium’s most fissile isotope],” the latest in a series of steps violating Iran’s commitments under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). While Tehran maintains that …
Read More »Joseph Daher: Iran Failed to Translate Political and Military Influence into Sizable Economic Gains
Joseph Daher is a researcher specializing in political economy. He wrote extensively on Syria and Lebanon, and most notably authored “Syria after the Uprisings, The Political Economy of State Resilience.” He is affiliated with the European University Institute and its Wartime and Postconflict in Syria program. The Syrian Observer: Recent …
Read More »Iranian dissidents to visit Israel next week – why?
Iranian expats support Israelis in light of the latest attacks by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, which are sponsored by Iran. A delegation of Iranian dissidents and expatriates plans to pay a solidarity visit to Israel next week with officials from the Trump administration. The mission is being organized by …
Read More »US says nuclear talks to continue, despite alleged Iran kidnapping plot
State Department spokesman Ned Price said Washington is “ready to go” ahead with talks, after Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said the task of renegotiating the deal had been handed over to the next administration. The United States will continue to negotiate a mutual return to the landmark Iranian nuclear accord, …
Read More »Iran Drives Development of Persian Gulf–Black Sea International Transport and Transit Corridor
Back in 2016, Iran put forward a regional initiative to expand the Persian Gulf–Black Sea International Transport and Transit Corridor, which, in addition to the Islamic Republic itself, involves Armenia, the Republic of Azerbaijan, Georgia, Bulgaria and Greece. This multimodal corridor begins from the Gulf and southern Iran, heads northward …
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