Iran

People | 20 QUESTIONS Oct 25, 2020

Nahid Yoshinari: 'I love to involve the audience in the music'

by Louise George Kittaka

An announcer and translator at NHK, Nahid Yoshinari is happy to share her Persian culture with people in Japan.

World / Social Issues Oct 24, 2020

Three years into the global #MeToo movement, women who say they have been sexually assaulted are improbably going public in the Islamic Republic of Iran. The movement’s reach inside Iran gained momentum in late August after allegations aired on Iranian social media against more than ...

Commentary / World Oct 23, 2020

Arab states should avoid an arms race with Iran

by Hussein Ibish

The best way for the Saudis and other Arab states to respond to an armed Iran is to work with the U.S. to create an effective secondary sanctions regime.

World Oct 18, 2020

'Made in Iran' thrives in economy Trump tried to crush

by Golnar Motevalli

There can’t have been many worse times to start a new business in Iran. Even before officials in the Islamic Republic alerted the public to a major outbreak of the coronavirus, the country started the year in a tense standoff with the U.S. while ...

World / Science & Health Oct 11, 2020

Iran records its highest daily death toll from coronavirus

Among those recently infected is the head of Iran's atomic energy organization, the latest senior official to test positive for the virus.

World / Politics | FOCUS Oct 10, 2020

Four years on, Trump keeps ramping up sanctions but sees few results

As he seeks a second term, U.S. President Donald Trump is accelerating his favorite foreign-policy tool of economic sanctions but his "maximum pressure" campaigns have produced few of the results he has been seeking. The Trump administration on Thursday imposed sweeping sanctions on Iran's banks, ...

World / Science & Health Oct 2, 2020

Trump joins growing list of coronavirus-infected world leaders

Britain's Boris Johnson was the first major world leader confirmed to have COVID-19, while most of the rest have been Latin American presidents.

Commentary / World Sep 27, 2020

Selling advanced fighter jets to the UAE is all about Israel

by James Stavridis

The problem with providing the F-35 to Arab states is it might erode Israel’s QME, a U.S. assurance that it will not sell its most advanced arms to Israel’s opponents.

World Sep 20, 2020

U.S. says U.N. sanctions on Iran are back as allies and rivals object

The U.S. said international sanctions on Iran are automatically "snapping back” in a move that most nations say the Trump administration doesn’t have the authority to demand since quitting a 2015 nuclear deal two years ago. "Sanctions are being re-imposed on Iran,” Secretary of State ...

World / Politics Sep 16, 2020

In break with past, UAE and Bahrain sign U.S.-brokered deals with Israel

The United Arab Emirates and Bahrain signed agreements on Tuesday to normalize ties with Israel, becoming the first Arab states in a quarter century to break a longstanding taboo, in a strategic realignment of Middle East countries against Iran. U.S. President Donald Trump hosted the ...