Alaeddin Boroujerdi: Parliament has power to supervise, approve nuclear deal
Does Iranian President Hassan Rouhani need Iran’s parliament, the Majlis, to supervise and agree to any agreement reached in nuclear negotiations between the P5+1 (United Nations Security Council...
View ArticleFour discouraging episodes and the state of social and political freedoms...
As IranPolitik has argued in the past, Hassan Rouhani’s victory in the 2013 Iranian presidential election was due to a multitude of reasons, mobilizing people from across Iran’s political spectrum. One...
View ArticlePublication – Soft War: A new episode in the old conflict between Iran and...
IranPolitik co-founders Farzan Sabet and Roozbeh Safshekan have released a new report in collaboration with our partners at the University of Pennsylvania’s Iran Media Program (IMP): “Soft war is...
View ArticleKhamenei rallies Basij commanders on the first day of the Third Geneva Talks
Yesterday, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei spoke to a meeting of 50,000 Basij commander from across Iran in commemoration of the end of Muharram, the ten days of mourning marking the...
View ArticleThe Third Geneva P5+1 – Iran Talks: Day One
The P5+1-Iran nuclear negotiations are complex and have many moving parts, from the negotiations themselves, to the interests, positions, and actions of states with a big stake but no direct role such...
View ArticlePublication – Soft War: A new episode in the old conflict between Iran and...
IranPolitik co-founders Farzan Sabet and Roozbeh Safshekan have released a new report in collaboration with our partners at the University of Pennsylvania’s Iran Media Program (IMP): “Soft war is...
View ArticleThe Third round of the Geneva P5+1-Iran Nuclear Negotiations: A Primer
INTRODUCTION The upcoming third round of the Geneva talks between the United Nations Security Council Permanent Five plus Germany (P5+1) and the Islamic Republic of Iran, which will take place between...
View ArticleThe P5+1-Iran Interim Nuclear Agreement: First impression of an agreement 11...
IranPolitik was live at the Intercontinental Hotel and Centre International de Conference Geneve (CICG) in Geneva, Switzerland, as the historic interim agreement between the United Nations Security...
View ArticlePresident Hassan Rouhani’s pragmatic conservative,...
Hassan Rouhani was inaugurated as the seventh president of the Islamic Republic of Iran on 04 August 2013 before the Iranian parliament. On the same day, Rouhani nominated the members of his Cabinet,...
View ArticleChemical weapons use in Syria: An obstacle to Rouhani’s moderate foreign policy
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani was elected on a moderate foreign policy platform which promised, among other things, to resolve the Iranian nuclear crisis, thereby weakening the harsh economic...
View ArticleObama versus McCain on Syria and the implications for Iran
As the United States ponders military action in Syria over allegations of the Bashar al-Assad regime’s use of chemical weapons on Syrian rebels and civilians, Iranian leaders are pondering how to...
View ArticleKhamenei, the Hassan and Hossein doctrines, and “heroic flexibility” versus...
The Islamic Republic of Iran’s domestic and foreign politics were rocked by the largely unexpected election of Hassan Rouhani as president in June 2013. Despite the election of the Centrist Rouhani,...
View ArticleInterim Higher Education Minister Jafar Tofighi seeks to reverse the legacies...
For the first time in months – since the end of high level P5+1-Iran nuclear negotiations in early 2013 – there is a momentum in Iranian foreign policy which may translate into progress in nuclear...
View ArticleIran Cyber Front: Rouhani’s cyber promises – Can, will he deliver?
Even before his surprise win in the 2013 Iranian presidential campaign, Hassan Rouhani had given indications that, if elected, he intended to improve Internet conditions in Iran. It wasn’t only Rouhani...
View ArticleFour discouraging episodes and the state of social and political freedoms...
As IranPolitik has argued in the past, Hassan Rouhani’s victory in the 2013 Iranian presidential election was due to a multitude of reasons, mobilizing people from across Iran’s political spectrum. One...
View ArticleRouhani’s real challenge: The domestic front
Many see the Islamic Republic of Iran’s negotiations with the United Nations Security Council permanent five members plus Germany (P5+1) as perhaps the most difficult test facing the Hassan Rouhani...
View ArticleInterview: IranPolitik w/ Italy’s L’Indro on the Geneva II Conference
IranPolitik co-founder and managing editor Farzan Sabet recently conducted an interview with Italy’s L’Indro on the conference in Syria this week taking place in Geneva, Switzerland. Excerpts of the...
View ArticleKhamenei’s Nowruz address highlights Iran’s culture war
This past week Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei gave his annual address in Mashhad, after having unveiled that the Iranian calendar year of 1393 will henceforth be known as the year of...
View ArticleThe P5+1-Iran Interim Nuclear Agreement: First impression of an agreement 11...
IranPolitik was live at the Intercontinental Hotel and Centre International de Conference Geneve (CICG) in Geneva, Switzerland, as the historic interim agreement between the United Nations Security...
View ArticleThe human rights issue and Rouhani’s coalition
In November 2013 Iranian President Hassan Rouhani had a foreign policy success which has eluded his two predecessors: He took a major, concrete, step toward resolving the Iranian nuclear crisis by...
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