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Items by Maysam Behravesh
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The Iran War: Consequences for US regional allies
Although neither the United States nor Iran want war, tensions and along with them the likelihood of conflict-triggering miscalculations and accidents, have been running high since the Trump administration designated the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) a terrorist organisation and revoked sanctions waivers for buyers of Iranian oil. On 24…
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Brexit, the EU and the Iran nuclear deal
Brexit has evidently opened a Pandora’s Box in British politics and created a high level of uncertainty in many policy areas. While its implications for Britain’s economy and trade relations with the European Union have been the subject of heated debates, its impact on other international issues of significance has…
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Iran’s ambitious post-war reconstruction in Syria
An Iranian construction official recently announced that Iran has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Syrian government to build “200,000 housing units” in Damascus. The agreement was made in the fourteenth Iran-Syria economic conference in late January, attended by Iran’s First Vice President Eshagh Jahangiri and the Syria Prime…
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Militant attacks may prompt greater cooperation between Iran and India against Pakistan
Tensions between Pakistan and its neighbours Iran and India are running high in the wake of deadly suicide attacks in the Iranian border province of Sistan-Baluchestan and Indian-controlled Kashmir. The terrorist car bomb on 13 February in eastern Iran, the responsibility for which was claimed by the Pakistan-based militant group…