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Today 10:46
By Hnaif Ghaffari
Europe has not taken action to keep JCPOA
TEHRAN - European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini recently announced that if there were no European efforts, the nuclear deal with Iran would be eliminated! It is claimed that, basically, the European Union has not yet taken a step towards maintaining a nuclear deal with Iran.
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2019-02-17 11:31
By Mohammad Ghaderi
Will the political face of France change?
TEHRAN - Political and social equations are wrapped up in France! Protests against President Emanuele Macron continue. Most analysts from European affairs, however, believe that Macron will not have a chance to survive in the presidential race in the next presidential election.
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2019-02-16 11:14
By Hanif Ghaffari
Three main messages of the Warsaw Summit
TEHRAN - The Warsaw Summit had come to an end without mentioning Iran's name in the final statement of the summit, and that was despite the attempts made by American officials and anti-Iran groups to introduce Iran as the destabilizer of peace and security in the region.
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2019-02-13 21:02
By M.A. Saki
Warsaw meeting: Roots of the crises in the Middle East
TEHRAN - The U.S. is co-hosting a conference on the Middle East with Poland in Warsaw. It has claimed the aim of the conference is to address crises in the region.
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2019-02-12 09:49
By Hanif Ghaffari
The great message of Iranians on Bahman 22
TEHRAN - The widespread presence of the Iranian people on the 40th anniversary of the victory of the Islamic Revolution is a further victory for the country. Donald Trump, the president of the United States and his entourage in the White House, especially those in the last months, particularly John Bolton and Mike Pompeo, have been struggling to make a difference between the nation and the government of Iran. However, the widespread presence of the Iranian nation has thwarted these actions.
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2019-02-05 11:12
By Hanif Ghaffari
Business disorder between Europe and U.S.
TEHRAN - The European Union remains cautious in the economic battle with the White House. U.S. President Donald Trump continues to pursue his protectionist policies in international trade system. This has led to raising concerns and serious discontent among the United States' European partners.
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2019-02-03 21:34
By Setareh Behroozi
Space technology, future market for Iranian entrepreneurs
About half a century ago, human left footprints on the moon. For years, space technology was associated in the mind of public with launching satellites, astronauts in their weird costume exploring other planets. Space technology was unreachable and done behind closed doors!
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2019-02-02 18:16
By Masoud Hossein
Iran has much to learn from Qatar football
TEHRAN – Qatar football team, headed by Felix Sanchez, lifted the AFC Asian Cup for the first time in their history, and the triumph was a far cry from everyone’s expectation.
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2019-02-02 09:30
By Mohammad Ghaderi
There remains ambiguity about the SPV even though it exists
TEHRAN - Finally, after months of delay, the foreign ministers of the United Kingdom, France and Germany announced in a joint statement that they have set up a financing mechanism to skirt American sanctions and keep the 2015 Iran nuclear deal alive.
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2019-02-01 22:13
BY Haniyeh Sadat Jafariyeh
SPV: A European mechanism to struggle U.S., gain economic autonomy
In their joint statement on that last day of January, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, and British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt introduced the SPV (a special purpose vehicle) also called INSTEX (Instrument in Support of Trade Exchanges), the financial mechanism which enables Iran to keep doing business with the rest of the world despite the draconian financial sanctions imposed by the Trump administration.
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2019-02-01 14:05
By Hanif Ghaffari
The second shock of British Parliament to May
TEHRAN - For the second time in recent weeks, the Parliament of the United Kingdom opposed British Prime Minister Teresa May’s proposed Brexit. The legislators of the House of Commons, while rejecting PM May's plan to withdraw without an agreement from the EU, asked her to try to re-negotiate with the European Union.
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2019-01-30 10:01
By Mohammad Ghaderi
Paris is completing the U.S. puzzle against Iran
TEHRAN - Although the French government insists on showing itself in this equation as an independent actor, the particular insistence of Paris to oppose Iran's missile program is in line with the interests of the Trump government.
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2019/01/29
By Maryam Qarehgozlou
The generous sky has opened; is the dry spell over in Iran?
TEHRAN — Since the beginning of autumn Iran has seen a great increase in precipitation amounts but endless speculations are running rampant as to whether the dry spell is over in the country or not.
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2019-01-28 10:23
By Hanif Ghaffari
Trump is afraid of the Sanders name
TEHRAN - Announcement of Barnie Sanders' candidacy in the 2020 presidential election is the worst possible news for Donald Trump and his entourage at the White House. Many American analysts believe that Sanders could be a serious rival for Trump in the upcoming presidential election.
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2019-01-27 10:36
By Hanif Ghaffari
French performance in favor of Trump
TEHRAN - There is no end to the French direct play on Trump's ground! In their latest speeches against Iran's missile program, the Elysee Palace authorities have called for the immediate stop of Iran's ballistic missile testing, and this is the same position they were taking during the past two years.
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2019-01-26 10:13
By Hanif Ghaffari
Brexit deadlock in London
TEHRAN - The negative vote by the Parliament in England to the Theresa May plan to leave the European Union has created a difficult and complicated situation in London.
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2019-01-23 21:12
By: Haniyeh Sadat Jafariyeh
Will phoenix rise from the ashes?
Iran has experienced an unprecedented devaluation of its currency, rial, during the current Iranian calendar year 1397, which is going to end on March 20, 2019.
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2019-01-23 09:51
By Mohammad Ghaderi - Twitter: @ghaderi62 - Email: m.ghaderi62@gmail.com
Exploring Saudi-Emiratis disagreements on Yemen
TEHRAN - The Saudi-Emirati offensive in Yemen and bombing of innocent people in the country is some of the issues that have always been discussed between Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on the developments in Yemen.
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2019-01-22 21:21
By: Ebrahim Fallahi
Will Iran’s oil revenues satisfy next year’s budget expectations?
Despite enjoying a great variety of income sources besides oil, Iran is undeniably dependent on oil revenues for managing its financial affairs. According to economists, near 70 percent of the Iranian government’s total income comes from selling oil and oil products.
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2019-01-22 10:25
By Hamid Bayati
Extreme right of Europe and Netanyahu's new mission to Rajavi Cult
TEHRAN – Israeli regime is providing extreme right parties in Europe with covert support to create a rift in the continent.
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2019-01-21 09:56
By Mohammad Homaiefar
Khashoggi, Bin Salman’s nightmare
TEHRAN - While the Khashoggi case has recently subsided in the media and Mohammed bin Salman all along has been keen to overcome any challenge, but it seems that the American Senator Lindsay Graham has not been indifferent and has launched a blistering attack on the Saudi Crown Prince.
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2019-01-19 10:07
By Hanif Ghaffari
Trump is mocking Biden
TEHRAN - News sources in the United States announced that Joe Biden, the U.S. former Vice-President (from 2009 to 2017), and a prominent figure in the Democratic Party will soon announce his run for the president in 2020. Biden has previously said that he's "the most qualified person in the country" for being president.
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2019-01-16 19:05
By Haniyeh Sadat Jafariyeh
Getting around sanctions with crypto-rial
In April 2018, the Central Bank of Iran banned domestic banks and people from dealing in foreign cryptocurrency because of money laundering and financing risks.
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2019-01-16 09:33
By M.A. Saki
Pompeo is the wrong man for his post
It is hard to comprehend that a person like Mike Pompeo is the chief diplomat of an important country like the United States. His career is alien to diplomacy.
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2019-01-15 18:39
By Masoud Hossein
Iran football federation seems blind to some rules
TEHRAN – It would be odd to negotiate coaching a team while you are still under contract with another, but that seems to be the case for the Iran football federation and Team Melli coach Carlos Queiroz.
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2019-01-15 09:43
By Mohammad Ghaderi
Iranians will not forget treason by Poland
TEHRAN - In 1939, when World War II began, Poland came under attacks by both Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. The attacks led to starvation, displacement, and mass execution of Polish people.
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2019-01-13 20:19
By: Ebrahim Fallahi
Iran’s oil market facing the new sanctions era; what to expect
After an expected hiatus in Iran’s oil exports to some of the country’s main customers following the reimposition of the U.S. sanctions, once again the country’s old buyers are coming back to take advantage of the 180-day window which has been presented by the waivers granted in November.
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2019-01-12 11:57
By Javad Heirannia
Reasons behind the eventual withdrawal of Kuwait from PGCC
TEHRAN - After several years since the beginning of Syria crisis, the Persian Gulf Arab states are changing their policies towards this county, and following the move of UAE and Bahrain, Kuwait will soon expand its relations with Syria.
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2019-01-08 20:32
By Haniyeh Sadat Jafariyeh
Currency reconversion not a turning point in economic reformation
One of Iran’s main economic policies, under the framework of the sixth five-year development plan, is modification of banking system and reformation of monetary policies, moving forward toward which the Rouhani administration put forward the plan to shift the national currency from Rial to Toman earlier in December 2016 by eliminating specific number of zeroes.
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2019-01-08 11:58
By Hanif Ghaffari
Merkel and Macron's secret disputes
TEHRAN - In spite of European senior officials' emphasis on cooperation among the EU leaders, such a cooperation doesn't exist in practice. Under such circumstances, the political and economic disagreements between Berlin and Paris are still going on. These disagreements are indicative of German-French conflicts in resolving the European economic crisis.
