Following the end of the Second World War, the objectives of North American and EU foreign policy changed international politics forever. Rather than questions of the military power of the expansionist Soviet Union, objectives ...
Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, few countries have challenged Iran’s ‘international villain’ status. The United States is the loudest champion of this animosity and mutually demonizing rhetoric. The word ‘...
Economic development, rapidly increasing populations and global warming are making the supply of fresh water one of the greatest challenges facing the states of the Arabian Gulf. The countries of the Arabian Gulf are famed for ...
Fawaz Gerges, a prominent Middle Eastern scholar, notes that there exists a ‘terrorism narrative’ in the West. Amongst government officials and the wider public, the notion of imminent terrorist attack seems institutionali...
This week, anger has turned flags into flames and spilt blood in the streets of Sanaa, Benghazi, Cairo and Tehran over a cheap, cowardly trap, set with the one aim of inspiring violence. And it has. But now it is time that we s...
With the unraveling of the second most important negotiations in Geneva, the perennial question remains the sincerity of Iranian intentions. This political milestone is shrouded by public scrutiny, tilted either towards a distr...
24 November 2014 marks the day on which the 12-year impasse regarding trade sanctions imposed to restrain Iran’s nuclear programme is to end. In 2002, the country’s opposition group revealed secret government activity inclu...
On 3 April 2015 an outline agreement on the future of Iran’s nuclear program was reached, running over the self-imposed 31 March deadline. When the leaders did emerge, they did so with an understanding that there would be a ...
Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad once again proved his talent for making surprising headlines when he played a video for the parliament on February 3, 2013 implicating his political rivals, some of the country’s lead...