Trump announced 'hard-hitting' new sanctions on Iran in response to the attack on a US drone. A peace studies scholar explains why sanctions rarely work.
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The US isn't the only country considering a military response to Iranian aggression.
Iran's leaders are threatening to breach a 2015 agreement that froze their country's nuclear program. What is uranium enrichment, and what would it mean for Iran's ability to build nuclear weapons?
Recent speeches suggest there may be an appetite for closer relations, but it won't be easy. A Saudi and an Iranian explain.
A showdown with Iran showdown over some oil tanker attacks in the Persian Gulf could push the US into its next Mideast war, writes a scholar of military aggression.
After years of work, the JCPOA nuclear deal could be on its last legs.
Growing fears of a US conflict with Iran show why the kind of unilateral sanctions the Trump administration imposed last year don't work.
Both Iran and the US say they are not seeking a war, but it could happen by default.
A terrorism expert exposes the quirks, inconsistencies and foreign policy strategy behind the State Department's terrorist watchlist.
From May 2, any countries buying oil from Iran can expect US sanctions.
The Syrian civil war has ended, but there are millions of Syrian refugees living in Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon. With danger from a hostile regime back in Syria, what will happen to them now?
The US has supported a Saudi-led military coalition that has inflicted profound and deadly damage on Yemen. A Senate vote could end what a human rights scholar says is US complicity in genocide.
Hostility to Iran's revolution from both the West and in the region is as virulent now as it was in February 1979.
The Obama and Trump administrations have supported a military coalition that has inflicted profound and deadly damage on Yemen. A human rights scholar says the US is complicit in genocide.
As the US excludes nations from the established system, China is offering them an alternative. And America will pay the price.
A series of recent comics are trying to shift the narrative about refugees.
If Iranian crude exports decline further it could make oil and gas prices rise.
Born Farrokh Bulsara, Mercury came from a Parsi family that practiced Zoroastrianism, a religion that influenced Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
Corruption, economic woes and oppression are driving many civil servants to the edge.
Peter Jennings on Morrison’s Jerusalem move
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Jennings says it would be "silly" to claim there is no connection between this week's announcement about the possible relocation of Australia's embassy to Jerusalem and the Wentworth byelection.
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Professor of International Politics, University of Birmingham
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Henry J. Leir Professor of Practice in Economics of the Middle East, Brandeis University
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Professor in The Division of Global Affairs and The Department of Political Science, Rutgers University Newark
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Lecturer in International Relations, Lancaster University
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Lecturer in International Relations, University of Salford
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Lecturer in International Relations and Security Studies, Curtin University
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Lecturer in Politics and International Studies, The Open University
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Lecturer in the Contemporary Middle East and Iran, University of Manchester
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Professor of Peace Studies, University of Bradford
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PhD Candidate, Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion, Lancaster University
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Professor of Middle East & Central Asian Politics, Deputy Director (International), Alfred Deakin Research Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University
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Lecturer, University of Sydney
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Political and Historical Ethnography, École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)
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Director at the Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland, University of Maryland
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Associate Professor in Islamic Studies, Director of The Centre for Islamic Studies and Civilisation and Executive Member of Public and Contextual Theology, Charles Sturt University
