21 Mar, 2024 Iran’s Global Posture Hides Domestic Insecurities If it wasn’t such a serious matter, one could call Iran the comeback kid. In the fall of 2022, when protests quickly spread across the country after ...
13 Mar, 2024 How sanctions sank Iran’s Persian Gulf tourism dream A recent trip to Iran's scenic Kish Island in the Persian Gulf was a stark reminder of the opposing currents pulling Iranian society in dramatically different directions. ...
12 Mar, 2024 Iran Wants $2.5 Billion For Dual National Hostage Iran has demanded that the US and a detained dual national Jamshid Sharmahd, who is on death row, must pay $2.5 billion, signaling Tehran's latest attempt at ...
08 Mar, 2024 Chinese Envoy Criticizes Media Coverage Of Economic Agreement With Iran An Iranian MP revealed that the Chinese ambassador has voiced discontent over media portrayal of the confidential 25-year agreement between Beijing and Tehran. Ahmad Amir-Abadi Farahani said ...
01 Mar, 2024 Halkbank urges immunity from US prosecution in Iran sanctions case Turkey's Halkbank (HALKB.IS) , opens new tab drew skepticism from a U.S. appeals court panel on Wednesday, as the state-owned lender renewed its push to escape U.S. ...
23 Feb, 2024 Pompeo Says West Must Return To Imposing Cost On Iran’s ‘Malign Activity’ to Restore Mideast Stability Taking away Iran’s ability to create instability in the Middle East was the driving force behind the 2020 Abraham Accords, and US policy needs to move back ...
22 Feb, 2024 Iran regime’s Crackdown on VPNs: The Battle for Online Freedom According to reports from Iranian regime-controlled media, the National Virtual Space Center has made a decision to deem the use of VPNs as ‘illegal’. This resolution has ...
21 Feb, 2024 Iranian Activist Defiant After Her Expulsion Over Hijab Iranian teacher and activist Sara Siahpour has made headlines after publicly denouncing her expulsion from her job and vowing to wear it as a badge of honor. ...
15 Feb, 2024 OFAC sanctions entities behind Iran’s digital currency program The Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) said in a press release that on Feb. 14 it imposed sanctions against a network of ...
15 Feb, 2024 US blacklists network accused of procuring US tech for Iran The Biden administration has blacklisted three people and four companies that the United States accuses of procuring American goods and technology for Iran and the Middle Eastern ...
15 Feb, 2024 Russia’s Dangerous New Friends Since invading Ukraine in 2022, Russia has forged deep ties with Iran. Moscow—which joined a sanctions regime against Tehran in the 2010s in an effort to restrict ...