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File Photo, Iranian protestors seen attacking the Saudi embassy in Tehran in 2016. (Reuters)

Saudi Arabia Accuses Iran of Stalling Inspection of its Embassy after 2016 Attack

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 1, 2017 | Saudi Arabia

Riyadh – Saudi Arabia accused Iran on Monday of persistently stalling the resumption of investigations into the 2016 attacks on the Saudi embassy in Tehran and its consulate in Mashhad. “The Iranian authorities have consistently stalled and refused to resume...

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Simorgh rocket is launched and tested at the Imam Khomeini Space Centre, Iran, in this handout photo released by Tasnim News Agency on July 27, 2017. Tasnim News Agency/Handout via REUTERS

Tehran Confused About New American Sanctions

by Amir Taheri | Jul 29, 2017 | World

As the US moves a step closer to imposing a panoply of harsher sanctions on Iran, the leadership in Tehran appears divided in its interpretation of the new challenge. The fact that “Supreme Guide” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has not yet fully commented on the proposed...

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Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with Iraqi Vice President Nuri al-Maliki during their meeting in St. Petersburg, Russia, July 25, 2017. Sputnik/Alexei Nikolsky/Kremlin via REUTERS

Tehran’s New Scheme For Iraq

by Amir Taheri | Jul 28, 2017 | Opinion

In his visit to Moscow this week, Iraqi Vice President Nuri Al-Maliki peddled what he presented as his big idea: inviting Russia to build “a significant presence’ in Iraq to counter-balance that of the United States. Since Maliki is reputed to be Tehran’s candidate as...

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US Ex-Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian counterpart Jawad Zarif shake hands, AFP

Iran’s Nuclear Deal Is Two Years Old

by Eyad Abu Shakra | Jul 19, 2017 | Opinion

“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last” (Winston Churchill) Marking two years since Iran’s nuclear deal (JCPOA), we would be badly mistaken if we assumed that the ‘architects’ of Barack Obama’s policy of handing over the keys of the...

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Commander Mohammed Jaafari on the sidelines of a committee meeting in Tehran,PHOTO: ISNA

IRGC Commander Attacks Rouhani Policies, Boasts about Military Might

by Adil Alsalmi | Jun 28, 2017 | World

London- Iranian Revolutionary commander Mohammed Jaafari criticized President Hassan Rouhani’s for accusing Tehran’s elite guard of intervening in national economic decision-making processes. Jaafari said that the Rouhani administration has inexcusably failed to...