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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.
Iranian listed companies have managed to grow profits despite major cost pressures stemming from sanctions. This may be because firms are exercising extraordinary pricing power.
Central Asia faces rising demand for energy, spurred by population growth and climate change, but most of the region’s power generation and transmission infrastructure dates to the Soviet era.
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.
Uzbekistan is seeking a dialogue with the world and economic conference can serve to build trust and generate credibility.
Iranians are using Instagram for political activism like never before. But these changes were not sudden. The “Mahsa Moment” was driven by user trends on social media that have been years in the making.
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.
Iranian women, supported by the many men who have now joined them, are challenging the discrimination they have experienced for decades.
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.
For four days, protestors have been in Iranian streets. Iran has seen multiple waves of unrest in recent years. But this time, the protests seem different.
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.
The shared oil and gas fields in the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman are largely untapped areas for bilateral and multilateral cooperation.
Sharing a grudge with the West is not a sufficient condition for a meaningful geopolitical partnership.
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.
