What US wants from UK on security after Brexit – and why this puts Britain in a tricky position.
Tensions in the Gulf are a stark reminder of the choices ahead for the UK on security cooperation after Brexit. [Read now...]
No one wants to go to war with Iran. We’re going anyway.
A little tale about dinner in Abilene and the Trump Administration’s Iran policy. [Read now...]
Iran: Zarif’s resignation, reformists’ bluff out of despair.
Reformists warn Europe that they need to get on with INSTEX and fulfill their promise soon or they’ll have to deal with hardliners instead. And how Rouhani tries to corner hardliners through a sensational episode among Iranians. [Read now...]
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Iran, European Union, Opinion, Middle East
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Attack in Iran raises spectre of a potentially far larger conflagration.
An attack on a military parade in Iran is likely to prompt Iranian retaliation against opposition groups at home and abroad. It also deepens Iranian fears that the United States, Saudi Arabia and others may seek to destabilize the country. [Read now...]
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Middle East, Iran, United States, Foreign Policy
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Iran nuclear deal and America’s foreign policy.
When our allies have to question America’s commitment on agreements and when a nation burns our flag, the decorum displays America’s foreign policy headed in a terrible direction. [Read now...]
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Donald Trump, Foreign Policy, Iran, US Politics, Opinion
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Could capricious American unilateralism leave the US out in the cold?
Those who wait with baited breath for a stinging European response to America’s withdrawal from the multi-lateral Iran nuclear deal should prepare to be marginally disappointed. [Read now...]
Expanding regional rivalries: Saudi Arabia and Iran battle it out in Azerbaijan.
It’s the pot calling the kettle black. As Saudi Arabia accuses Iran of seeking to encircle it with its support for Houthi rebels in Yemen as well as Qatar, the kingdom and the Islamic republic are extending their bitter rivalry beyond the Middle East into the Caucasus. [Read now...]
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Middle East, Iran
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Iran: Protests and threat of renewed sanctions focus economic thinking.
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei appears in the wake of recent anti-government protests to have put his weight behind President Hasan Rouhani’s repeated calls for reduced military and Revolutionary Guards involvement in the economy. [Read now...]
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Iran, European Union, United States
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