Al-Monitor | Sarbas Nazari: Iran's new parliament, which is to be inaugurated May 28, is seeing an spirited battle between a number of lawmakers seeking to occupy the speaker's post.
For 12 consecutive years, Ali Larijani maintained a tight grip on the position, earning the title of Irans longest-serving speaker. However, the influential politician ...
Al-Monitor - As of March 17, the coronavirus epidemic in Iran had killed nearly a thousand people and infected over 16,000 others. For a theocracy like the Islamic Republic, closing down religious sites as a measure to slow transmission is a tough decision, leaving the authorities stuck between a rock and hard place.
Yet with the epidemic showing ...
Al-Monitor - After a week of lackluster campaigning, Iran held a parliamentary vote Feb. 21, with the country's leadership issuing persistent calls for maximum participation. State media extensively covered what they described as a passionate presence by the public, an account disputed by ordinary citizens on social media, who posted images of what ...
Al-Monitor | Saeid Jafari: The race for the Islamic Republics 11th parliament is likely to turn into one of the most peculiar competitions ever, as most of the hopefuls fall under one political umbrella, with the rival side effectively pushed aside from the game.
After being swept away due to a widespread purge by the vetting body known as the Guardian ...
Radio Free Europe | Golnaz Esfandiari: With Iranian parliamentary elections just a month away, there are increasing signs that the vote will be a case of the conservatives battling hard-liners, in what analysts describe as an attempt by the clerical establishment to consolidate power.
The hard-line Guardians Council, which vets all election candidates,...
Bourse and Bazaar | Golnar Motevalli and Arsalan Shahla: After a dozen years as speaker of Irans parliament, half of them allied with President Hassan Rouhani as he reached out to the West, Ali Larijani is bowing out.
Its been a tumultuous reign, book-ended by devastating U.S. sanctionregimes. But his decision not to contest February 21 national assembly ...
Al-Monitor | Rohollah Faghihi: Feeling the heat, Iranian hard-liners are distancing themselves from the government's fuel price hike.
The government announced Nov. 15 an important decision affecting daily life in Iran: the rationing of gasoline and a subsequent increase in gas prices. Iranians have bitter memories of fuel price hikes. They consider ...
Al-Monitor - The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) has started work on a fresh phase of scaling back commitments under the 2015 nuclear deal, which had seen Tehran's controversial nuclear program dramatically shrink.
AEOI spokesman Behrouz Kamalvandi said Iranian technicians are set to inject nuclear gas known as UF6 into centrifuges at ...
Al-Monitor - The geo-economic aspects of President Hassan Rouhani's visit to Iraq couldnt be more pleasing to Iran's conservatives. Ever since the US departure from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) last May, conservatives have urged Rouhani to bypass Washington's reinstated sanctions by focusing on trade with neighbors like Iraq as opposed ...
Al-Monitor | Saeid Jafari: There are indications that French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drians recent visit to Iran was not very successful in terms of achieving its goals. The trip took place with the aim of paving the way for an upcoming landmark visit by French President Emmanuel Macron as well as softening Irans position on engaging in talks ...
Rouhanis opponents who see him as a threat to many of their interests are targeting a struggling economy and the nuclear deal in bid to unseat him in 2017.
TEHRAN, IRAN Its a familiar political story: The presidential hopeful billed as the candidate of prudence and hope is facing withering criticism. His toughest opponents fear their longstanding ...
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's official IRNA news agency is reporting around 50 hard-line students and activists have staged a rally, calling on the parliament to reject the landmark nuclear deal reached with world powers last month.
The Sunday report said the protesters carried signs outside the parliament building decrying the agreement as an "injustice ...
Middle East future hinges on which force emerges as main beneficiary of expected accord
ISTANBULReformers and hard-liners in the Iranian regime have been jockeying for influence for decades. As the Islamic Republic now nears a landmark nuclear agreement with the U.S. and other world powers, the Middle Easts future depends on which force emerges ...
Tehran, May 1, IRNA Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif answered some Iranian critics about his interview with Charlie Rose, but his main complaint in this response is about those who have criticized him about not respecting freedom of expression.
Zarif in his Facebook page has asked his Iranian critics to at least hear the full text of his interview ...
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian University Students are staging a sit-in in front of the parliament to voice protest at the results of several months of talks between Iran and the world powers as Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is due to brief the lawmakers on the results of the Lausanne talks in today's session.
The students have gathered in front ...
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- As Iran's nuclear negotiators returned home with the framework of a deal with world powers, joyous revelers joked that "still, there is no whiskey" in the Islamic Republic, a jab at its theocratic government. But hard-liners here aren't laughing.
Hard-liners face a crisis as Iran looks to reach a permanent deal with world powers ...
Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, the country's diplomatic heavyweight behind the nuclear deal, has reached out to Iranian hardliners.
Zarif, who was given a rousing welcome on his return home following the accord, insisted the country would be able to resume its nuclear programme from the current level if the world powers failed to ...
TEHRAN, Iran Iran's hard-liners are criticizing a tentative nuclear agreement between Iran and world powers, saying the deal was a bargain for the West and a disaster for Iran.
Hossein Shariatmadari, an advisor to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and editor of the hard-line Kayhan daily told the semi-official Fars news agency on Friday ...
(Bloomberg) -- Iranian hardliners warned their top diplomats against making concessions that contravene red lines set down by the countrys highest authority, as talks on the Islamic Republics nuclear program neared their deadline.
The agreement under discussion contravenes key points outlined by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Hossein Shariatmadari,...
A nuclear pact means our regime will have to surrender its No. 1 justification for its actions: anti-Americanism.
he nuclear negotiation between Iran and the United States represents a historic shiftone that is actually more significant for Iranians than it is for Americans. If there is a deal over the next week, as the two sides approach their ...
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