Tehran Times

January 28, 2025 | Seth J. Frantzman |

Iranian-backed militias in Iraq face an uncertain future

Iraq’s pro-Iranian militias face an uncertain future after the December fall of the Bashar al Assad regime in Syria and amid pressure from Iraqi authorities for armed groups to be disbanded or incorporated...

August 17, 2022 | Dr. Brenda Shaffer |

Iran’s policy toward the Caucasus and Central Asia

Excerpt Much of the analysis on Iranian foreign policy focuses on both Iran’s positonality in relation to the Middle East, and its claim to the mantle of Shia Islamic leadership. However, a more detailed...

November 25, 2020 | Dr. Brenda Shaffer |

The Armenia-Azerbaijan War: Downgrading Iran’s Regional Role

The security architecture emerging in the South Caucasus following the war between Armenia and Azerbaijan led to significant changes for the region’s three main powers:  Russia and Turkey gained increased...

September 11, 2020 | Dr. Brenda Shaffer |

Iran’s Longstanding Cooperation with Armenia

Domestic Azerbaijani Opposition May be Rising

May 11, 2020 | Dr. Brenda Shaffer |

U.S. Sanctions on Iran: Is Natural Gas Next?

The Trump administration’s maximum pressure campaign is having a significant impact on Iran’s macroeconomic stability and draining the government’s export earnings and reserves. As Iranian oil exports...

July 30, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal

Adidas follows Nike’s lead and stops service to Iran’s soccer team

The German sportswear company Adidas is the latest European business to pull out of Iran’s increasingly volatile market due to pending US sanctions on the mullah regime in Tehran....

September 8, 2014 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Analysis: It’s ‘business as usual’ as some of Israel’s friends in Europe increase trade with Iran

Germany and the Czech Republic – key allies of Israel in the European Union– have boosted economic ties with Iran. The Czech government is slated to send 20 companies to Tehran on Sat...

April 1, 2014 | Benjamin Weinthal |

UN Report Assails Iran for Persecution of Religious Minorities

Despite the election last year of Iran’s reform-minded president Hassan Rouhani, there has been no Persian thaw for Iran’s struggling religious minorities. Wide-scale repression of re...

March 27, 2014 | Michael Ledeen |

Those Hilarious Jokers in Tehran Obama Wants to Befriend

Who says the Iranian regime is run by dour old men with no sense of humor?  Wrong!  Foreign Minister Javad Zarif has just written a ...

September 13, 2013 | Claudia Rosett |

Syria’s Pals at the Chemical Weapons Convention

With Russia on his side, Syria’s President Bashar Assad has now agreed to sign on to the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), which is meant to eliminate chemical weapons from the world once...

September 4, 2012 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

Princeton’s Iranian Agent of Influence

The cautionary tale of Seyed Hossein Mousavian

August 10, 2012 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Pinning Iran to the Mat

Can we learn lessons about stopping Tehran's nuclear program from a wrestling match? Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/opin

April 24, 2012 | Emanuele Ottolenghi Middle East Quarterly |

Gary Sick, Discredited but Honored

The so-called "October Surprise" plot that briefly enthralled the American public twenty years ago is one of the most influential political conspiracy theories in U.S. history. As the story goes,...

April 17, 2012 | |

The Magician Behind Iran’s Vanishing Oil Tankers

With sanctions bearing down on Iran, the Iranian shipping industry has been putting on a carnival of flim-flam to hide its doings. In the latest twist on this sanctions-dodging performance, Iran&...

November 19, 2010 | Jerusalem Post

Germany: EU Iran Sanctions Don’t Prohibit Hamburg Bank

BERLIN – The German government last week denied that German authorities plan to pull the plug on the Hamburg-based Iranian EIH bank (Europaeisch- Iranische Handelsbank). Speaking during an...

November 15, 2010 | Jonathan Schanzer |

Egypt Helping Iran to Circumvent Sanctions

If you ever find yourself in downtown Tehran, it's hard to miss the five-story-tall mural commemorating Khaled al-Islambouli, the man who assassinated Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in Octob...

November 15, 2010 | Wall Street Journal Europe

That Treasured German-Iranian Friendship

Germany has a bizarre way of working through its history. While the government, rhetorically at least, opposes Iran's nuclear weapons program as a threat to Israel's security, members of its parlia...

November 15, 2010 | Atlantic

How Egypt Is Helping Iran to Circumvent Sanctions

If you ever find yourself in downtown Tehran, it's hard to miss the five-story-tall mural commemorating Khaled al-Islambouli, the man who assassinated Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in October 1981...

May 12, 2010 | Pajamas Media

Here Comes the UN’ s Libyan Blights Council

Libya on the United Nations Human Rights Council? That sounds nuts. But this is the UN. By Thursday evening, with the Obama administration apparently AWOL on this outrage, it may be a done deal....

April 6, 2010 | |

Iran’s Palestinian Uprising

Hundreds of Palestinian youths wrapped in checkered headscarves held demonstrations in the West Bank last week. Some erupted in violence. Last weekend, no less than three Palestinian factions cla...