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The Decline in Protests in Iran: Dimensions and Results

Iran Mulls Over Quitting the NPT

Gasoline Riots in Iran Expose Deep Political Rifts and Potential Regime Instability

Rouhani’s Push for a Referendum: What Is His Proposal? Why Has It Failed?

Iraq’s Kurds Face Dilemma Over Future Relations With Iran

Iran’s Fingerprints Are Visible in the Suppression of Iraq’s Protests

Hope Is Dying in the French Bid to Rescue the JCPOA

Will China Give Iran a Big Credit Line?

Khamenei’s Strategies to Navigate Through the US Maximum Pressure Campaign

Iran’s 2020 Parliamentary Elections: Lower Participation and Competition, but Higher Levels of Irregularities

French Mediation Attempts Between the United States and Iran in Limbo

Federalism for Iran: Arguments for and Against

The Decline in Protests in Iran: Dimensions and Results

Despotic Corruption Rocks Iran

Iran Naval Chief’s Admission of a “Classified” Pact with Russia

Playing With Words Spells Trouble for Zarif in the US and at Home

Iran’s Budget Clear of Oil Money: Is It Possible?

Recurring Protests in Iran 20 Years After Student Uprisings Challenge the Country’s Stability

Can the EU Save the JCPOA Under Testing Conditions?

Iran’s Continuing Internal Divisions on Joining the Financial Action Task Force

Iran Unveils the Khordad 15 Amid Rising Tensions With the US

The Consequences of Downing the US Drone for the Iranian Regime and Society

Utilizing Pressure Points: the Consequences of Russian Escalation Against Iran in Syria

Why Won’t Back-Channel Diplomacy Between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Trump Aadministration Work?

Iranian Belligerency Escalates While the International Response Remains Lukewarm

Rouhani Calls for a National Referendum to Decide the Fate of the Nuclear Agreement

The Fatemiyoun Division: Iran Exploits the Poverty of Afghan Migrants

Iran Opens a Can of Worms by Lowering Its Commitments to the JCPOA

Despite Provocation, Prudence is Likely to Prevail

Iran and Afghanistan: So Near Yet So Far

Iran Relies on Iraq to Keep the US at Arm’s Length, and to Bring the Region Together

Despite Imran Khan’s visit, Pakistan-Iran ties remain cold

Complicated Calculations: Iran and its Options for Dealing with the US ‘Zero Pledge’ on its Oil Exports

Khamenei Replaces the IRGC Chief- is he Tightening his Grip or Preparing for a Potential Military Standoff?

Iran’s Flooding and Environmental Security

The US Designates the IRGC as a Terror Group Without a Coherent Strategy

Fatemiyoun fighters return to Afghanistan: no end to the nightmare of war and poverty

Iran to Face the US Navy on Its Doorstep After the Oman Port Deal

Thanks to Chabahar, ‘Afghanistan Is Not Landlocked Anymore’

Ahmadinejad Working Hard to be the Next President of Iran

Warsaw Conference on the Middle East: All Thunder and No Rain?

EU Conditions Place Extra Pressure on Iran

Iran’s Armed Forces Project Stronger Defensive and Offensive Postures
