Iran’s new foreign minister has an opportunity to reshape the country’s foreign policy, cutting a creative path through the rigid confines of the political landscape.
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Iran’s new foreign minister has an opportunity to reshape the country’s foreign policy, cutting a creative path through the rigid confines of the political landscape.
Earlier this month, Brigadier General Hamid Vahedi, Iran’s air force commander, ended weeks of speculation about the imminent delivery Russian Sukhoi Su-35 fighter jets.
In March, China managed to a broker a détente between Iran and Saudi Arabia, achieving a diplomatic breakthrough that had eluded European governments. But Europe and China have shared interests in the region and there is scope for the two powers to work together to foster further multilateral diplomacy.
SIPRI has corrected its data on Iran’s military spending, applying a more relevant exchange rate for dollar conversions. Instead of ranking as the 14th largest military spender in the world in 2021, Iran was actually ranked 39th.
This week, Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi flew to China for a three-day state visit at the invitation of Xi Jinping, marking the first full state visit by an Iranian president in two decades.
At the end of January, the board of Instrument in Support of Trade Exchanges (INSTEX) took the decision to liquidate the company.
At the second meeting of the Baghdad Conference on Cooperation and Partnership, regional economic integration was a new focus for the countries involved.
Xi Jinping’s recent trip to Riyadh, his first foreign visit to the Middle East since the pandemic, suggests that China may no longer seek to treat Iran and its Arab neighbours as equals.
A participatory budgeting initiative may prove a vital step forward in Uzbekistan’s political development if it opens the path to wider democratic reforms.
The final demarcation of the Uzbek-Kyrgyz border was expected to be a tremendous political victory for Kyrgyzstan. But instead of celebration, the agreement has spurred domestic unrest and intensified repression.
The Biden administration should adjust its sanctions policies to authorise remittance transfers to Iran, making it possible for Iranians in the diaspora to support their family members in ways that strengthen capacities for political participation.
If the SCO is to mature as an organisation and make good on its vision of connectivity, it must also serve as a platform for conflict resolution.
Members of the China-led Shanghai Cooperation Organisation will meet later this week in Samarkand. But the assembled leaders may struggle to find common ground in the face of regional and global crises.
Western governments believe that Iran’s continued enrichment activities are allowing Iranian nuclear scientists to gain “irreversible knowledge.” But what if sanctions pose their own irreversible knowledge problem?
An open letter co-signed by 61 Iranian economists addresses the government and the Iranian people about the country’s economic challenges.
SIPRI produces the world’s most authoritative data on global military expenditure and the arms trade. But for years they have been overstating the size of Iran’s military budget.
Reports indicate that the “final hurdle” facing the Iran nuclear negotiations is Iran’s demand for the removal of the Foreign Terrorist Organisation designation placed on the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, part of Iran’s armed forces.
The unfolding crisis in Ukraine offers the latest evidence of Putin’s irredentist obsessions and the ways in which those obsessions threaten the political and economic integrity of Russia’s neighbours.
The sanctions relief afforded to Iran in January 2016 as part of the implementation of the JCPOA did not lead to a cascade—while a significant number of foreign companies did commence or resume operations in Iran, no larger, second cohort followed.
The choice we face as those working on Iran policy is not about choosing between Plan A or Plan B—it is much bigger than that.
