Vision and Politics

Iran’s Zarif: Nuclear talks with Macron were ‘productive’
August 24, 2019
Iran’s foreign minister has hailed “positive” talks with French President Emmanuel Macron, on salvaging the 2015 nuclear deal. Mohammad Javad Zarif says they could work with...
Middle East scholars blame Trump for an Iran policy 40 years in the making
August 21, 2019
When the new academic year convenes days from now, students attending American colleges will learn that there is a crisis in the Middle East caused...
Zarif makes fresh push to save Iran deal, ease Gulf tensions
August 21, 2019
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is on an international tour that will take him from Scandinavia to France and later to East Asia in search...
General: 76% of opium produced in the world is discovered in Iran
August 18, 2019
Head of the counter-narcotics center said on Saturday that the United Nations has announced that 76 percent of the opium and also 67 percent of...
U.S. Sanctions are killing cancer patients in Iran: Foreign Policy
August 17, 2019
In an article published by Foreign Policy on Wednesday, it has been illustrated that how sanctions are taking tolls Iranian patients. The article, written by...
US agrees to lift sanctions for Iran Air ATR spares
August 14, 2019
The US Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has given turboprop manufacturer ATR permission to supply Iran Air with spares to keep its fleet in...
Iran says Britain might release seized Grace 1 oil tanker soon
August 14, 2019
Iran’s port authority has said the United Kingdommight free its seized oil tanker after some documents were exchanged that would help secure its release. British Royal Marines...
Sanction on Zarif a blow to diplomacy: envoy
August 14, 2019
Iran’s permanent envoy to UN organizations in Vienna has cautioned that recent U.S. sanctions against Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif were a backward move for...
A Letter To Donald Trump From An Iranian War Veteran
August 13, 2019
By Habib Ahmadzadeh, lobelog.com President Trump, in a recent tweet, claimed that “Iranians never won a war, but never lost a negotiation.” As a world citizen,...
Iran’s Zarif blasts US arms sales to Persian Gulf
August 13, 2019
Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif accused the United States on Monday of transforming the Persian Gulf into a “tinderbox” with its arms sales to...
Exclusive: Top diplomats condemn US sanctions against FM Zarif
August 10, 2019
A host of senior Iranian diplomats have issued a statement in reaction to the United States’ imposition of sanction on Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad...
U.S. sanctions imperil aid to Iran’s flood victims
August 7, 2019
Two major humanitarian groups have warned that United States sanctions on Iran are stopping cash flows for vital humanitarian work in the country, adding another...
Why Trump’s Iran policy fails
August 7, 2019
John Limbert, former US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Iran, comments on the Trump administration’s sanctions on Zarif and their bankrupt Iran policy as a...
Zarif says US sanctions against him ‘failure’ for diplomacy
August 6, 2019
Iran’s foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has slammed the United States’ decision to impose sanctions on him, calling the move a “failure” for diplomacy. Speaking...
Iran continues oil supply defying U.S. sanctions
August 5, 2019
Iran continues oil supply to the Mediterranian and Asia defying the USA sanctions. This was reported by the New York times based on its own...
UAE says it prefers diplomacy over conflict with Iran
August 5, 2019
UAE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Anwar Gargash said the UAE and Saudi Arabia prefer a political approach to their problems with Iran. Emphasizing...
Zarif sanctions show Washington is ‘not interested in diplomacy’
August 3, 2019
As anti-Iran hawks in the United States have intensified their “maximum pressure campaign” against the country, Donald Trump has kept a diplomatic window open by...
Whitewashing the MEK Makes No Sense
July 24, 2019
The National Interest has published a strange bit of pro-MEK propaganda by Ilan Berman: Eliminating that threat, the MeK argues, requires regime change in Tehran. And while many...
Iran ‘ready for different scenarios’ amid tensions with Britain, says Iranian ambassador to UK
July 22, 2019
Iran’s envoy to Britain on Sunday urged the UK to contain “domestic political forces” which he said wanted to escalate tension between the two countries...
Trump’s Threats towards Iran Aren’t Working. Here’s Why.
July 22, 2019
By by Stephen Zunes and Medea Benjamin, The Progressive The Trump Administration has imposed sanctions against more than 1,000 Iranian entities, including Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, targeting...