Financial Times | Total's adventure in Iran Financial Times Total's deal over the development of the next phase of Iran's huge South Pars gas field was announced in Tehran on Monday to coincide with President Emmanuel Macron's State of the Nation address at Versailles. The deal is a sign of both France's ... Why Total's gas deal with Iran is so important for the country's future Rouhani and Trump: Together against Iran's Men with Guns? How Serious Are Internal Divisions in Iran? |
The Weekly Standard | Iran Still on the Hunt for Nuclear Weapons Technology Across Germany The Weekly Standard A report from the state of Hamburg holds that “there is no evidence of an complete about-face in Iran's atomic polices in 2016” [after the Islamic Republic signed the JCPOA deal with Western powers in 2015, aimed at restricting Tehran's nuclear program ... Country Managers Make Post-Sanctions Iran Work Attempts to confine Iran will only increase US isolation |
The Intercept | Here's Why Washington Hawks Love This Cultish Iranian Exile Group The Intercept Iran hawks long ago fell head over heels for the Mojahedin-e Khalq, known as the MEK, and loudly and successfully lobbied for it to be removed from the State Department list of banned terror groups in 2012. Formed in Iran in the 1960s, the MEK, whose ... |
Newsweek | World's Largest Bookstore, Tehran's Book Garden, Opens in Iran Despite Government Censorship Newsweek Bibliophiles in Iran, clear your weekend: The huge Book Garden center just opened in Tehran. Officials unveiled the Book Garden, a giant academic complex being called "the world's largest bookstore," on Wednesday. At roughly 65,000 square meters (about ... |
Washington Post | It's time to prepare for Iran's political collapse Washington Post In recent congressional testimony, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson sensibly stressed that the United States should “work towards support of those elements inside of Iran that would lead to a peaceful transition of that government.” The commentariat ... |
Voice of America | Afghans Stage Rare Anti-Iran Rally, Denounce Iran's Rouhani Voice of America At an international conference on sandstorms and environmental issues in Tehran on Monday, the Iranian leader warned that construction of several dams in Afghanistan could destroy “civilizations” in Iranian border provinces, forcing people to abandon ... Iranian Envoy Says Rouhani's Remarks Were Misunderstood Afghanistan rejects Iran's concerns on dam construction |
Financial Times | Iran needs more than the gas deal with Total Financial Times Total, the French energy major, is returning to Iran. This week, it announced the first big foreign investment in Iran's vast but capital-starved oil and gas industry since the nuclear accord Tehran reached with the US and five other world powers in ... Iran signs $2 billion gas deal with France's Total Iran signs first energy contract since nuclear deal |
Foreign Policy (blog) | Saudi Arabia Is Weakening Itself and Strengthening Iran Foreign Policy (blog) President Donald Trump likely sees Mohammed bin Salman, who in June was named the new Saudi crown prince, as a Middle Eastern leader made in his own image. The young crown prince's unrelenting hostility towards Iran and take-no-prisoners censure ... Is the Qatar Crisis Veering Out of America's Control? |
Press TV | What Trump's belligerency towards Iran means Press TV The Donald Trump administration's belligerency towards Iran and its double standards on terrorism is due to US officials believing in American exceptionalism, according to Myles Hoenig, an American political analyst and activist. Hoenig made the ... |
Washington Post | Virginia cartoonist declines award from Iran's Trump cartoon contest Washington Post Jones discovered this week that a cartoon of his lampooning the president had been awarded a citation in the Trumpism Cartoon and Caricature Contest, as announced Monday by Iran's House of Cartoon in Tehran. His cartoon spoofed Time magazine's ... |