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A reading of US sanctions on Iran

  • Following the drone and missile attacks on Saudi Aramco’s oil facilities in Abqaiq and Khurais in eastern Saudi Arabia, the US announced a new package of sanctions on Tehran as part of Washington’s policy of maximum economic pressure to address Iranian threats. The attacks emanated from the n...
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A safe distance is key following the settlement of international disputes

  • Following the resolution of any long-simmering regional or international dispute involving two major regional geopolitical states, both of which wield massive influence over regional and even international affairs, the leaderships and elites in both states long to present visions and proposals ...
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A Saudi Arabia-Iran road map for the future

  • Saudi Arabia and Iran have emerged as key players in the Middle East’s war and peace equation. Five rounds of security discussions have been held between Riyadh and Tehran in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, and elsewhere, but the outcomes have not lived up to expectations. Despite the efforts of I...
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Abduction business a profitable string to IRGC’s bow

  • Richard Ratcliffe, the husband of jailed British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, outside of the Iranian Embassy in London, last year. (Reuters) The tools the Iranian regime uses to address foreign policy issues are multifaceted, depending on the nature of the issue ...
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Afghanistan hands Iran a timely reality check

  • Over the past few months, Iran realized that the Taliban would be much more assertive in their future bilateral dealings. For any observer, Kabul’s tough-talking approach seems consistent considering its conduct with Islamabad. Tehran’s loss of patience with the Taliban reflects the over-estima...
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After Soleimani: Three scenarios that could happen next

  • After mutual escalations between the US and Iran in the Iraqi arena, the most severe blow came with the US drone strike early on Friday that killed Qassem Soleimani. In the days and hours leading up to the strike, the tit-for-tat violence had been mounting. Iran’s militias killed a US contrac...
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Ahmadinejad letter a tribute to Saudi Arabia’s influence

  • Ex-Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad after he submitted his name as a candidate in Iran’s presidential election, Tehran, April 12, 2017. (Reuters) In another of the Iranian regime’s unofficial initiatives — to which leaders who influence regional and global affairs have becom...
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Al-Kadhimi correcting the path in Iraq-Iran relations

  • Iraqi PM Mustafa Al-Kadhimi. (Facebook Photo) The bold moves recently taken by Mustafa Al-Kadhimi’s interim Iraqi government with the aim of restoring the state’s battered prestige are showing promising and unambiguous indications of a desire to transition from a long phase of se...
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Al-Maliki no longer a dependable option for Iran

  • Since Iraq’s elections in October 2021, the country has experienced a watershed moment, particularly regarding the political history of its Shiite population, with tensions mounting between the country’s two largest Shiite camps ever since. The first of these camps is led by Muqtada Al-Sadr, a...
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Al-Sadr’s dilemma as cleric urges his followers to turn to Iran

  • In Iraq, the Sadrist movement led by Muqtada Al-Sadr has long followed the religious edicts of cleric Kazem Al-Haeri, doing so upon the instructions of the leader’s late father, Mohammed Sadiq Al-Sadr, who before his death told his loyalists to follow Al-Haeri or another cleric named Mohammed A...
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