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Published in: HomeIran’s nuclear programme and the battle of the oligarchiesA contest of domestic elites with differing interests and strategic visions is a crucial, neglected element...
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Published in: openSecurityIran behind the conciliatory veilRight-wing US and Israeli venom against the outline agreement is one thing; genuine concern about the Islamic...
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Published in: openSecurityA Gulf in understandingThe outline Iran nuclear deal has highlighted divisions in the region—not just between majority Shia and Sunni...
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Published in: openSecurityIran nuclear deal: keeping hope of peace aliveConservatives in the US, Israel and Iran itself are all opposed to the outline nuclear accord. So it looks like progress.
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Published in: openSecurityIran celebrates historic nuclear deal—all eyes now on supreme leaderA quarter-century on from the 'Islamic' revolution, Iran's beleaguered economy and its reformist leader desperately...
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Published in: HomeIran’s hidden prisonersThose arrested in Iran after the presidential election of June 2009 join the detainees from earlier moments of...
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Published in: openSecurityIran nuclear deal: the fall-outThe interim nuclear deal between the western powers and Iran faces significant domestic and international...
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Published in: HomeIran and human rights: a new landscape
The Iranian president's forthcoming visit to the United States is an opportunity to highlight the continued...
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Published in: HomeIran, women in the frame
Iranian women have played an active role in social and educational life since the revolution of 1979. There are now...
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Published in: HomeIran's nuclear file and human dignity
Iranians are enduring great hardship as a result of economic sanctions. The absence of progress in nuclear...
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Published in: HomeAmerica's war on Iran: the plan revealed
The United States is more seriously preparing for military action against Iran than is widely realised. An attack -...
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Published in: HomeIran, domestic tension and foreign policy
The prospect of a military attack on Iran to disable the country's nuclear facilities is being intensively...
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Published in: openSecurityIran in the straits?
How are recent events in Iran to be interpreted? History has a lot to teach us, argues David Madden
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Published in: HomeThe middle east and war over Iran
The Arab world is remaking itself. But even as its states cope with multiple domestic challenges they also face a...
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Published in: HomeIran, the Arab revolts, and Syria
The Iranian leadership and official media portray the Arab spring as a “great Islamic awakening” targeted at the...
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Published in: HomeA war on Iran: the delusive logic
The arguments for and against an armed attack on Iran by the United States - or Israel - are sharpening. The...
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Published in: HomeIran and America: components of crisis
Washington's charge that high-level Iranian cadres were planning an attack in the United States signals the real...
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Published in: HomeTehran: glimpses of freedom
Iranians in 2009 led the kind of street-protest that was in 2011 to inspire their Arab neighbours. Now, repression...
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Published in: HomeIran's green movement: life, death, rebirth
The movement sparked by Iran's fraudulent election of 2009 is history. The potential exists now for a bolder and...
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Published in: HomeEgypt, and the post-Islamist middle east
The portrayal of Egypt’s uprising in terms of its potential capture by Islamists is doubly misleading, says Asef...
