Doomsday matters: Tehran-Riyadh alliance!
BY: Nedret Ersanel To say it as politely as possible, not too many people doubt any longer that the U.S. had some sort of involvement in the July 15 treachery. The same belief also applies [ More … ]
BY: Nedret Ersanel To say it as politely as possible, not too many people doubt any longer that the U.S. had some sort of involvement in the July 15 treachery. The same belief also applies [ More … ]
The Obama administration misled journalists and lawmakers for more than nine months about a secret agreement to lift international sanctions on a critical funding node of Iran’s ballistic missile program, as part of a broader [ More … ]
German Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel on Tuesday wrapped up a two-day visit to Iran with a view to expand trade ties between the two regional giants after the lifting of international sanctions against the Islamic Republic. [ More … ]
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım expressed concerns Tuesday on the emergence of Mosul as the new center of sectarian conflict as the operation to clear ISIS terrorists from the city of Jarablus continues. Speaking at [ More … ]
Donald Trump’s real estate organization rented New York office space from 1998 to 2003 to an Iranian bank that U.S. authorities have linked to terrorist groups and Iran’s nuclear program. Trump inherited Bank Melli, one [ More … ]
News of a Canadian-Iranian academic’s release from Iranian prison has raised fresh hopes for a detente in Canada’s glacial relations with Iran but a Canadian expert says restoring relations with the Islamic Republic is far [ More … ]
Turkish and Iranian officials have conducted a number of high-level bilateral visits recently. This suggests that the two countries are drawing closer once again, after a period of serious disagreements over Iraq and Syria. What [ More … ]
The day India carried out surgical strikes across the Line of Control, Iranian Border Guards attacked Pakistan’s restive Balochistan region, sparking speculation whether it was a coordinated Indo-Iranian move amid warming ties. It has been [ More … ]
BY: Erol Göka* The intellectual adventure, that was passed down from the 17th century to the 20th century, has a route from uncertainty to accuracy. The “search for accuracy” is a search for trust and [ More … ]
Even a year ago, few expected the weird prospect of Washington taking two important decisions that go against the US policies of the past 40 years. Rewarding Iran through the JCPOA nuclear agreement, that saves [ More … ]
Iran has kept to a nuclear deal it agreed with six world powers last year limiting its stockpiles of substances that could be used to make atomic weapons, the head of the International Atomic Energy [ More … ]
Iran’s revolutionary court has confirmed a 10-year prison sentence for a prominent human rights defender. Authorities have held the rights defender, Narges Mohammadi, who suffers from a severe medical ailment, in Evin prison in Tehran [ More … ]
Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad finally got the opportunity to meet with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Aug. 30. In the 40-minute meeting, Ahmadinejad reportedly sought to obtain Khamenei’s view on his pursuing a possible [ More … ]
– Pakistan and Iran are brotherly countries, and have no disputes, says Pakistani official, downplaying incident At a time when Pakistan is locked in border clashes with its archrival India, Iran has fired mortar shells [ More … ]
For years, debates in the OPEC conference rooms were dominated by clashes between top producer Saudi Arabia and its arch-rival Iran. Finally, the two rival countries agreed that they need to cut crude output to [ More … ]
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