News Archive - 2 July 2018

Sunday, 3rd of Tir – June 24th, 2018 HEADLINES OF IRAN’S MORNING PAPERS   KAYHAN   -1.1 billion dollar contract between Bahrain, US The US Department of Defense stated that a contract worth 1.1 billion dollars has been signed between Bahrain and the US for the sale...

Turkish people know him as one of the outspoken critics of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan policies. İnce’s 10-minute speech at parliament in 2009, which was against the ruling party of Turkey, was significantly embraced by millions of people in social media.   İnce is a member of Republican People’s Party...

This year’s $1.1m Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity has been awarded to a Rohingya Lawyer. Kyaw Hla Aung was selected as the 2018 Aurora Prize Laureate among 750 nominations submitted from 115 countries. The lawyer, who has fought against discrimination and repression against the minority Rohingya people in...

By: Haniyeh Sadat Jafariyeh   Nearly a month after the US withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), leaders from the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) met in Qingdao, China, to set the roadmap for the future.   In his speech, Chinese President Xi Jinping, the summit host,...

Following the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Paris Climate Accord, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) is the third multilateral agreement that the current United States administration has withdrawn from. The administration has also put in jeopardy other multilateral arrangements such as NAFTA, the global trade system, and parts...

The EU has been seeking responses since Washington pulled out of the nuclear agreement with Iran (the JCPOA). The Agreement will collapse if Tehran loses the economic benefits of international trade and commerce. If major Western companies pull out – especially from the oil and gas sector – Iran...

By: Afsaneh Reshad   Since King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud ascended the Saudi throne in 2015, Riyadh’s actions and decisions with regard to domestic and regional policies have been ambiguous. In other words, the Kingdom has failed to experience a calm day over the past three years.   Saudi...

With Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the nuclear deal between Iran and six world powers, and with the doubtful prospects for the deal despite intense negotiations between Iran and European countries, powerful voices inside Iran are calling for Tehran’s exit from the nuclear...

(From right: Nahavandian, Nobakht, and Vaezi in a cabinet meeting.)   “It feels like Mr Rouhani has abandoned the country’s affairs”. These words were not uttered by Rouhani’s fierce opponents in the Principlist camp, but Faezeh Hashemi, the outspoken daughter of the late Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, and a...

May 8th, 2018, US President Donald Trump announced his long-time decision to withdraw from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the multilateral nuclear deal signed between P5+1 (five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany), and Iran in which the latter agreed to curb its nuclear program...

In 2015, to restore dictatorial rule to Yemen as well as plunder the country's oil and gas and its natural wealth, Saudi Arabia created a coalition of some of its regional and transatlantic allies, targeting Yemen which is the poorest Arab state.   Although the Saudis claimed that their...

The Washington Post, in one of its most recent articles, unveiled the U.S. President's suggestion to the French government: Donald Trump is trying to Persuade Paris to leave the European Union.   The suggestion was apparently made during the recent visit of President Emmanuel Macron to Washington. During...

Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, mistrust towards foreign states, especially Western countries, has been a major characteristic and also a key challenge of Iran’s international diplomacy. Skepticism towards foreigners runs not only among the elite, but also the public.   In the anarchic system of the international community, each...

High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini has announced that the Europe’s package of proposals for preserving the nuclear deal will soon be delivered to the Iranian authorities.     The package is scheduled to be submitted to the diplomatic system and...

Female soccer fans packed a stadium in Tehran on Wednesday after the de facto ban on their attendance was lifted.

But it's Congress that must take action, acting ethics head David Apol said.