Australia made progress on restoring trade and sharing intelligence on Islamic State in Iraq. Iran was less open to accepting the return of asylum seekers, which may prove a blessing in disguise.
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When it comes to women and power politics in the Islamic Republic, the road has been a long and winding road.
We get the English word ‘chess’ from the Persian word Shah (king). The linguistic identification of this part of the world with chess belies its Indian origins, but in a country where the ancient nobility…
By reaching out to Iran, Australia can help end a long stand-off with the West that prevented solutions to many of the world’s most dangerous problems, including Syria’s civil war and Islamic State.
The preliminary deal won’t lift any sanctions, but businesses eager to return to Iran won’t wait for the ink to dry to gear up.
Iran has never backed out of the nuclear nonproliferation regime in principle. But what about those who never signed up in the first place?
Churchill’s famous aphorism that it’s better to jaw-jaw than to war-war has never been more apposite or timely. Although the usual suspects are queueing up to criticise the agreement between Iran and various…
Polls in Iran and US underscore the mutual popular mistrust that could scuttle a final deal.
Iran is celebrating this historic deal – along with the rest of the world. But Iran’s religious leader can still throw a spanner in the works.
And so it came, after years of protracted negotiations, extended deadlines and a diplomatic dance of unprecedented proportions – a deal that could signal a new era for Iran’s relations with the world.
Saudi Arabia’s incursion into Yemen is the latest manifestation of a long-standing struggle between it and Iran over statist issues of conflicting national interest, security and regional hegemony.
Yemen’s collapse into full-on chaos could take the Middle East into an all-consuming conflict the like of which we’ve never seen.
As the Iraqi’s banner assault on Islamic State sputtered, the US stepped in to help – and a third of the ground troops promptly went home.
Saudi Arabia could wait no longer to try and dampen the flames engulfing Yemen – but it may be too late.
The US is just one actor in an important global non-proliferation regime that works towards preventing the spread of nuclear weapons.
As the deadline for an agreement on Iran’s nuclear program draws near, opposition to any such deal is gathering momentum.
This week’s open declaration of hostility by 47 Republican senators to any US agreement with Iran has generated much handwringing about the state of American domestic politics. The tone and manner of their…
Embarrassingly, the Senators’ letter betrays a surprising amount of ignorance about the US constitutional system.
Iran is being pushed to the edge by sanctions over its nuclear programme. Will its dying Supreme Leader cave to the pressure?
Scholars weigh in on the Israeli Prime Minister’s warning that current negotiations are “paving the way” to an Iranian bomb.
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Professor of International Politics, Clinton Institute, University College Dublin
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