Iran
Dr. Salem Alketbi’s analysis of Iran: the regime’s regional policies, its nuclear and missile programmes, its proxies, and what they mean for Gulf and Arab security.
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Iran
Iran’s nuclear crisis: “soon” or “sooner?”
Despite some hints of the resumption of negotiations on Iran’s nuclear program in Vienna, more specific indications confirm that the…
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UAE
The mullahs’ runaround on the UAE island issue
Iran’s political discourse on the three occupied UAE islands (Greater Tunb, Lesser Tunb and Abu Musa) is a never ending…
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Iran
Mullahs and Taliban: confrontation or containment?
The relationship between the Iranian mullah regime and the Taliban has always been one of suspicion, concern, and mistrust. Today,…
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Iran
The underside of EU optimism on Iran’s nuclear issue
Amid uncertainty about the fate of talks on reviving the nuclear deal, six of which were held between the Iranian…
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Iran
The worst-case scenario in the Iran crisis
Expectations and conflicting statements abound as to the fate of the nuclear negotiations begun some time ago in Geneva between…
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UAE
Occupied Emirati islands and how to build trust in the Gulf
In Iran, the people who take power and hold high positions may vary. But they all agree on what they…
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Yemen
Have the Taliban emboldened Al Houthi?
The Taliban’s control of most of Afghanistan seems to have given Yemen’s Houthi group, Ansar Allah, its financiers, and its…
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Iran
Did the Iranian minister break protocol?
Several media outlets recently reported on what was described as an error in protocol by Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir…
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Iran
Will the mullahs return to Vienna?
The question that had been looming for some time concerned the chances of the Vienna talks achieving a breakthrough that…
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Iran
The mullahs’ neighbors and the fate of the nuclear deal
Amidst the world’s concern for rapid developments on Afghan soil since the Taliban took control of the capital Kabul, the…
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