Tasnim Kaveh Afrasiabi, author and political scientist from Boston, termed European powers' new mechanism to ease trade with Iran as a heroic political effort that would institutionalize the 28-member blocs rift with Washington. At the moment, it is a heroic political effort that institutionalizes the European rift with Washington over Iran and ...

RT- The UN saves millions of lives and is responsible for global peace and security; by cutting its funding, the US made a big step in the wrong direction, Kaveh Afrasiabi, a former adviser to Irans nuclear negotiation team, told RT. The US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley hassaidWashington is to reduce its contributions to the UN. The organization ...

RT- The Trump administration forfeited its policy on Iran under pressure from neocons in Washington DC, who unfortunately want to torpedo the nuclear deal with Tehran, says Kaveh Afrasiabi, former adviser to Iran's nuclear negotiation team. Iran has become a target of Washington's recent sanctions. The country's officials have already claimed the ...

Press TV has conducted an interview with Kaveh Afrasiabi, author and political scientist from Boston, a ruling by the US Supreme Court allowing the transfer of some USD two billion of frozen Iranian assets to the families of the victims of a 1983 bombing in Beirut. The following is a rough transcription of the interview. Press TV: Legalistically ...

A political analyst says the West must avoid making unrealistic demands in nuclear talks with Iran, Press TV reports. In an interview on Saturday, Kaveh Afrasiabi said the Western side is making unrealistic demands of Iran during nuclear talks, which could be seriously damaging to the negotiations. Afrasiabi added that the US demand, for instance,...

Although the US has lifted some restrictions under a nuclear deal with Iran, US Secretary of State John Kerry stated that they are there to stay. An advisor to Iran's negotiation team, Kaveh Afrasiabi, told RT that Kerrys comments do more harm than good. Secretary Kerry reiterated the importance of both sides negotiating in good faith and Iran abiding ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Following the November 24 agreement between Iran and the P5+1 bloc of six world powers, hopes were revived that the controversy over Irans nuclear program can be finally resolved in a peaceful and diplomatic manner. A prominent Iranian academic and political author believes that the Geneva interim accord has the potential power to ...

Irans all-out efforts to resolve the issues regarding its nuclear energy program show Tehrans faithfulness to its commitments, a political analyst tellsPress TV. In a Sunday interview, Kaveh Afrasiabi pointed to Irans efforts in a three-part process - namely its talks with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), its implementation of the interim ...

The European Unions decision to re-impose sanctions on some Iranian companies could undermine the nuclear agreement between Tehran and the six major world powers, a political analyst tellsPress TV. In an interview with Press TV on Friday, Kaveh Afrasiabi said the news about the EU re-imposing sanctions on some 17 shipping companies from Iran, does ...

A possible agreement over Iran's nuclear energy program in the course of the ongoing nuclear negotiations, will be to the benefit of Russia, a political analyst tellsPress TV. It is in Russias interest to see a deal and the relaxation of tensions and the normalization of relations between Iran and the West and Iran does not see this as a zero-sum ...

A political commentator says the US should revise its foreign policy toward Tehran to prevent further escalation of the Iranian nations historic anger at itself,Press TVreports. This travesty of US foreign policy requires a solid revision and reconsideration in favor of a new paradigm, based on full respect for the rights and privileges of Iranian ...

A political expert says Iranian patients have been taking the brunt of the US-engineered sanctions against the country,Press TVreports. These sanctions are hurting the average ordinary Iranians and if these sanctions continue, the number of those suffering among the average Iranian population will certainly grow, Kaveh Afrasiabi said in an exclusive ...

Any success in the upcoming nuclear talks between Iran and six world powers is mainly contingent upon a removal of the sanctions that have been imposed on the Islamic Republic, a political analyst says. In a Friday article on Press TV, Kaveh Afrasiabi pointed to Iranian President Hassan Rouhanis success in his attempts to score some impressive diplomatic ...

A political commentator says the administration of US President Barack Obama is determined to engage in diplomacy with Iran despite pressure from Israel, Press TVreports. I think President Obama is determined to move the Iran engagement policy forward irrespective of the Israelis pressure, Kaveh Afrasiabi said. He pointed to the upcoming negotiations ...