Resolving Iran’s Water Crisis is Needed for Stability
Water scarcity is a growing problem across the Middle East. It has grown in importance...
Formalizing a Middle Eastern “Cold War”
More than ten years after the advent of the 2011 “Arab Spring” uprisings, the original...
Raisi’s Pivot to East Policy: An Inefficient Lever Against the U.S.
“We will not tie the economic and living conditions of the people to the negotiations...
Great Powers’ New Conflict in Afghanistan
The fate of Afghanistan, like many other political issues, is fundamentally rooted in history. In...
Iran Can Resolve its Gas Disputes Through Active Energy Diplomacy
Exporting natural gas to its neighboring countries has been a top priority for Iranin recent...
To Engage or Not to Engage? Iran and the “New” Taliban
Given the fundamental ideological differences between the ruling political system of Iran, based on Twelver...
Will Iran Become a Gas Exporter to Europe?
The geography of Iran has provided special natural conditions for the country. Iran borders 13...
The Gulf Prepares for an Afghan Scramble
For the last twenty years, Afghanistan has remained mired in a brutal conflict between the...
The Brewing Sino-Indian Conflict Over Iran’s Chabahar Port
Iran’s strategic, geopolitical, and geoeconomic position has been carefully scrutinized by major countries around the...
After Taliban Victory, What Next for the Gulf?
The rapid series of events over the past weeks in Afghanistan, culminating in total victory...
President Raisi Has No Solutions for Iran’s Mounting Problems
Iran’s newly elected president, controversial firebrand cleric Ebrahim Raisi, took office on August 5. Elected...
Negotiating With the Taliban: Iran’s No-Win Choice in Afghanistan
As Taliban forces captured Afghanistan’s northwestern city of Mazar-i Sharif in August 1998, armed insurgents...