Iran Nuclear Deal Dilemmas Fueling Elections Standoff Heshmat Alavi 21/03/2017 Beyond Europe, Iran Tensions are intensifying quickly in Iranian politics. Recent comments by senior U.S. officials, such as Ambassador Nikki Haley and CENTCOM chief General Joseph Votel, explaining the threats posed by Tehran hav... Be More Curious...
Iran’s growing brain drain disaster Heshmat Alavi 12/03/2017 Beyond Europe, Iran Harsh crackdown and human rights violations, difficult living conditions under enormous pressures, and colossal education costs in Iran under the mullahs’ regime is leaving no choice other than leaving the coun... Be More Curious...
The Iranian Regime and Evolution of ISIS Heshmat Alavi 16/02/2017 Beyond Europe, Iran Support for international terrorism received a major boost the moment the mullahs hijacked Iran’s 1979 revolution. After a very short-lived period of a so-called open political atmosphere, their thugs organized in the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) and paramilita... Be More Curious...
Conference in Paris Concludes Eviction of Iran’s IRGC Forces from Syria and Region is Necessary for Peace to Thrive Donya Jam 04/02/2017 Beyond Europe, Iran DISCLAIMER: all opinions in this column reflect view of the autor(s), not of Vocal Europe by Donya Jam Majority of governments around the globe recognize the regime of Iran as one of the most state sponso... Be More Curious...
Why is Iran, with the 2nd largest reserves, importing natural gas? Heshmat Alavi 27/01/2017 Beyond Europe, Iran by Heshmat Alavi The sheer fact that Iran, sitting on the world’s 2nd largest natural gas reserves, second only to Russia, is forced to import up to 10 billion cubic meters of natural gas each year from Turkme... Be More Curious...
Time to assume the right approach on Iran Heshmat Alavi 18/01/2017 Beyond Europe, Iran DISCLAIMER: all opinions in this column reflect view of the autor(s), not of Vocal Europe by Heshmat Alavi 105 United Nations Member States, including many from Europe, adopted a resolution on December 21st to establish a mechanism aimed at investigating... Be More Curious...
Iran’s deplorable human rights record needs urgent attention of EU Member States Donya Jam 16/01/2017 Beyond Europe, Iran DISCLAIMER: all opinions in this column reflect view of the autor(s), not of Vocal Europe by Donya Jam Executions are continuing in Iran unabated. At least 42 inmates have been hanged by regime authorit... Be More Curious...
Rafsanjani’s death can be prelude to major change in Iran by Iranian people Vocal Europe 13/01/2017 Beyond Europe, Iran DISCLAIMER: all opinions in this column reflect view of the autor(s), not of Vocal Europe By Hossein Abedini The death on Sunday of the Iranian mullah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani marks a milestone in the... Be More Curious...
Monday Talk with Cornelius Adebahr on Iran and Trump Madalina Sisu Vicari 05/12/2016 Beyond Europe, Iran, Monday Talks by Madalina Sisu Vicari Vocal Europe: Are you surprised by the presidential elections’ outcome that Mr Trump becomes 45th president of the US? Cornelius Adebahr: Given that nearly all polls pointed to a win by Hillary Clinton, there was indeed an element... Be More Curious...
Iranian Leadership Holding the World to Ransom Vocal Europe 25/10/2016 Beyond Europe, Iran DISCLAIMER: all opinions in this column reflect view of the autor(s), not of Vocal Europe by Struan Stevenson The revelation that the Obama administration paid Iran a ransom of almost half a billion dolla... Be More Curious...
What Europe can do for human rights in Iran? Vocal Europe 11/08/2016 Beyond Europe, Iran by Elaheh Azimfar The religious dictatorship ruling Iran has launched a new wave of mass executions following an increasing discontent and expanding opposition among Iranian people. At least 36 prisoners wer... Be More Curious...
Do Blairites realise they are cheering the success of Iran? Vocal Europe 13/07/2016 Beyond Europe, Iran by Alastair Sloan Suspend for a moment any care for the Iraqi civilians and British soldiers who died in the 2003 invasion and subsequent years of occupation in Iraq. I’m not saying you don’t care, but let’s for a moment pretend you don’t. As if by magic, y... Be More Curious...
Love and Marriage, Iranian Style Vocal Europe 28/06/2016 Iran by Mehrnaz Samimi Arranged marriages are far from the main means through which nuptials take place in Iran. Long gone, too, are the days when a nervous young man in his early to mid-twenties would scribble h... Be More Curious...
Tehran or Paris: which is safer? Vocal Europe 21/06/2016 Iran 06/21/2016 Brussels Iran’s official IRNA news agency on Sunday quoted Iranian Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani as saying: ♣ Europeans and westerners who have travelled to Ira... Be More Curious...
MEPs express solidarity with Iranian political prisoners Vocal Europe 10/05/2016 Iran Vocal Europe A group from the European Parliament has expressed its solidarity with imprisoned teachers and union leaders in Iran. The chairman of the Friends of a Free Iran (FoFI) group, Gérard Deprez MEP, released a statement on Tuesday calling for politica... Be More Curious...
Europe’s banks begin return to Iran Vocal Europe 05/04/2016 Iran by Martin Arnold European banks are tentatively re-engaging with Iran as the Middle East’s second-largest economy slowly emerges from a sanctions regime that has kept it in the financial wilderness for years. ... Be More Curious...
Six issues for Narendra Modi’s Iran visit Vocal Europe 03/04/2016 Iran by Kabir Taneja* Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is going to make one of his more important foreign sojourns this month, as he prepares to visit Iran for a two-day official visit beginning on May 22. Post-... Be More Curious...
Iran elections 2016 Vocal Europe 29/02/2016 Iran by Julia Ann Iran elections 2016, Observers who portrayed the elections as a action amid ‘reformists’ and ‘hardliners’ accept angry themselves in knots – abnormally afterwards advertisement beforehand that about all reformists had been butterfingers by the ... Be More Curious...
Iranian-Saudi tensions: the energy dimension Vocal Europe 09/02/2016 Iran by David Ramin Jalilvand In early January 2016, tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia escalated. The execution of Saudi Shiite cleric Nimr Baqer al-Nimr sparked outrage among the Middle East's Shiite popula... Be More Curious...
Negotiating Iranian Politics: Rouhani’s Reform Agenda Vocal Europe 26/01/2016 Iran DISCLAIMER: all opinions in this column reflect view of the autor(s), not of Vocal Europe by Dr. Roubzeh Parsi After the United States and the European Union have lifted economic sanctions on Iran, the coun... Be More Curious...
Will Iran and Saudi Arabia Go to War? Vocal Europe 11/01/2016 Iran by JUDY DEMPSEY A selection of experts answer a new question from Judy Dempsey on the foreign and security policy challenges shaping Europe’s role in the world. Cornelius Adebahr - Associate in Carnegie’s Europe Program They might, and one could be in... Be More Curious...
Iraq’s Iranian sovereignty Vocal Europe 19/12/2015 Iran, The Opinion DISCLAIMER: all opinions in this column reflect view of the autor(s), not of Vocal Europe by Iyad Al-Dalimi The ruling elite in Baghdad has suddenly realised that they are ruling a country called Iraq and ... Be More Curious...
Why Israeli and Iranian Hardliners Need Each Other Vocal Europe 03/11/2015 Iran, Israel DISCLAIMER: all opinions in this column reflect view of the autor(s), not of Vocal Europe By Saeed Rahnema Netanyahu did have Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, disgraced former Iranian President, who with th... Be More Curious...
The Imperial Designs on Iran Vocal Europe 02/11/2015 Iran DISCLAIMER: all opinions in this column reflect view of the autor(s), not of Vocal Europe by Pepe Escobar So what is the Obama administration really up to in Iran? What sort of strategic calculations have led to what for the moment looks like a tactical ... Be More Curious...
After the Iran Nuclear Agreement: Will the Nuclear Powers also Play by the Rules? Vocal Europe 15/10/2015 Iran DISCLAIMER: all opinions in this column reflect view of the autor(s), not of Vocal Europe by Lawrence S. Wittner In the aftermath of the Iranian government’s agreement to comply with the treaty, Lawrence Wi... Be More Curious...
Russia, Iran and the Gas Stake: Friends or Foes? Madalina Sisu Vicari 25/07/2015 Iran, Russia DISCLAIMER: all opinions in this column reflect view of the autor(s), not of Vocal Europe by Madalina Sisu Vicari & Azime Telli ( PhD, Lecturer at Ondokuz Mayis University, Turkey) Iran's agre... Be More Curious...
Nuclear deal to lead Iran interfering in internal affairs of its neighbors? Vocal Europe 10/05/2015 Iran DISCLAIMER: all opinions in this column reflect view of the autor(s), not of Vocal Europe by Naveed Ahmad Tehran seems in festive mood over the likely nuclear deal. US Secretary of State John Kerry and his Iranian counterpart Javad Zarif have been holdin... Be More Curious...
ISIS: Iran’s Trojan Horse? Vocal Europe 01/05/2015 Iran DISCLAIMER: all opinions in this column reflect view of the autor(s), not of Vocal Europe by M. Behzad Fatmi / @BehzadFatmi Islamic State to Iran is what Al Qaeda has been to America. The analogy might no... Be More Curious...
