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Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (L) and German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, in the context of nuclear talks with Iran, in Vienna, Austria, on 13 July 2014. (EPA/Hans Punz)

Iran and Germany: A 100-year-Old Love Affair

by Amir Taheri | Jul 19, 2014 | Book Reviews

As the deadline for P5+1 group nuclear negotiations with Iran is extended by 4-months until November, commentators assume that the four Western powers involved, the United States, Great Britain, France and Germany, are united in their determination to curtail Iranian...

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European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton (R) and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif arrive at a news conference at the end of the Iranian nuclear talks in Geneva November 10, 2013. (Reuters)

Opinion: The Nuclear Tango

by Ali Ibrahim | Nov 13, 2013 | Opinion

When US Secretary of State John Kerry said in Abu Dhabi on Monday that his country was not in a rush to reach a nuclear agreement with Iran, he must have been trying to give reassurances that Washington was not under pressure to accept an agreement that did not...

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EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, left, smiles, as Saeed Jalili, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council walks away, after they posed for press in Almaty, largest Kazakhstan’s city on Friday, April 5, 2013 (AP Photo/ Shamil Zhumatov, pool)

Back to Square One?

by David Patrikarakos | Apr 12, 2013 | Majalla Blogs

It seems that time may not be on Iran’s side. Following the breakdown of negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 (the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany) in Almaty last week, US Secretary of State John Kerry warned the Iranians that talks...