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Iran Should Freeze Nuclear Program for Decade: Obama
President Barack Obama speaks on the phone in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington DC, January 5, 2011 (White House/Pete Souza) American president Barack Obama said on Monday that Iran...
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Iran Rushes to Help Consolidate Houthi Rule in Yemen
Iranian president Hassan Rouhani arrives in Zanjan, October 22, 2014 (Presidency of Iran) Iran is rushing to support the Shia rebels who took over Yemen’s government last month. A delegation of leaders...
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Republicans Warn Iran Deal with Obama May Not Last
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with Republican House speaker John Boehner in Washington DC, March 3 (Caleb Smith) Opposition Republicans warned Iran’s leaders on Monday that any deal...
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Kerry Reassures Arabs Iran Deal Won’t Mean “Grand Bargain”
American secretary of state John Kerry speaks with Saudi foreign minister Saud bin Faisal Al Saud in Riyadh, March 5 (State Department) Secretary of State John Kerry has sought to reassure America’s...
View ArticleAmerica Is Starting to Pivot on the Shia-Sunni Divide
Almost three years ago, Greg R. Lawson wrote for the Atlantic Sentinel that the United States should “pivot” on the Middle East’s Shia-Sunni divide. Whether by design or not, the Iranian-led fight...
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Airstrikes Deepen Iranian-Saudi Proxy War in Yemen
A Royal Saudi Air Force Tornado fighter jet takes off, May 13, 1992 (DoD/H.H. Deffner) Saudi Arabia escalated its proxy war with rival Iran in Yemen on Wednesday when it launched airstrikes against...
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Iran Hails Nuclear Deal as “First Step” Toward Improved Relations
Iranian president Hassan Rouhani delivers a news conference in Tehran, August 7, 2013 (Presidency of Iran) Iran heralded an “historic” agreement about its nuclear program with great powers as a “first...
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Russia Risks Arms Race by Proxy with S-300 Delivery to Iran
Russian S-300 missile defense systems are transported by rail, 2009 (Wikimedia Commons/Sergeev Pavel) Russia said on Monday it would unblock the delivery of sophisticated S-300 missile defense systems...
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As Saudis Bomb Yemen, Iran Just Has to Sit Back
An American F-15 fighter jet takes off from an air base in Saudi Arabia during Operation Desert Shield (USAF) As Saudi-led airstrikes appear to have done little to set back the Houthis in Yemen so far,...
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Russian S-300 Missile Sale Worries Iran’s Neighbors
Presidents Hassan Rouhani of Iran and Vladimir Putin of Russia speak on the sidelines of a summit in Astrakhan, September 29, 2014 (Presidency of Iran) After world powers reached a preliminary...
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France Takes Hard Line in Iran Talks as Ties with Arabs Deepen
French Mirage fighter aircraft taxi at Al Udeid Air Base near Doha, Qatar during a training mission, March 26, 2013 (DICoD/J.J. Chatard) France is taking a hard line in nuclear talks with Iran at the...
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World Powers Reach Landmark Nuclear Agreement with Iran
American secretary of state John Kerry speaks with Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in Vienna, Austria, July 1 (State Department) Iran reached a landmark agreement with world powers on...
View ArticleIran May Not Be the Middle East’s Hegemon — Yet
Iran may not be the Middle East’s hegemon today and its nuclear deal with world powers — which would lift sanctions in return for curbing its atomic program — may not make it much easier for the...
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After Iran Deal, America Must Reassure Arab Allies
Adel al-Jubeir, the foreign minister of Saudi Arabia, speaks with American secretary of state John Kerry in Paris, France, May 8 (State Department) After signing a landmark agreement with Iran in July...
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Iranian, Russian Deployments Hint at Assad Survival Strategy
Russian defense minister Sergei Shoigu salutes during a memorial ceremony in Moscow, October 1 (Russian Ministry of Defense/Vadim Grishankin) The involvement of Iranian and Russian troops in Syria’s...
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Russian Intervention Reveals Assad’s Wariness of Iran
Syrian foreign minister Walid Muallem is received by Iranian president Hassan Rouhani in Tehran, August 5 (Presidency of Iran) Syria’s Bashar Assad hasn’t only welcomed support from his patron Russia...
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Iran Invited to Syria Talks for First Time
Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif attends the Munich Security Conference, Germany, February 2, 2014 (MSC/Marc Müller) Iran is due to attend talks about the Syrian war in Vienna, Austria for...
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Arab States Cut Diplomatic Ties with Iran
An Iranian flag is seen in Isfahan, May 21, 2014 (Blondinrikard Fröberg) Bahrain and Saudi Arabia cut diplomatic ties with Iran on Monday, escalating a standoff that the Saudis triggered on Saturday...
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Saudi Arabia Versus Iran: The Deeper Story
Map of the Middle East (Pixabay/Erika Wittlieb) There are other shorter articles and they do a fine job of covering the basics. If that’s all you’re looking for, click on the link and consider yourself...
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West Lifts Sanctions as Iran Complies with Nuclear Deal
Ali Akbar Salehi, head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, shakes hands with Yukiya Amano, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, in Vienna, Austria, January 16...
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