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If Iran becomes a nuclear state someday, will the international community confront Tehran to secure peace, security and stability in the Middle East?

The new Iran deal that will be signed will probably be weak and useless at mitigating the Iranian threat.

JERUSALEM, March 18 (Reuters) - Israel on Friday urged the United States not to remove Iran's Revolutionary Guards from its foreign terrorist organization blacklist in exchange for "empty promises". The United States was considering such a move, a source familiar with the matter said on Wednesday, in return for Iranian...

TEHRAN, Sept 22 — With his trimmed beard, red scarf and bronze-coloured waistcoat, Kazem Mabhutian serves a steady stream of customers in the smallest and oldest teahouse in Tehran, but at 63 years old, he is counting on God to find him a successor. Tucked in an alleyway of the Grand Bazaar,...

Opinion Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during Friday prayers in Tehran September 14, 2007. Photo: REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl/File Photo When Ali Khamenei was appointed Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic, he knew he lacked Khomeini’s charisma. He needed the power of the military to subdue his rivals and consolidate his position, and accordingly pulled the Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) closer to himself. At the same time, newly elected president Hashemi Rafsanjani, ...

Iran's supreme leader criticised its foreign minister, who said in a leaked interview that the elite Revolutionary Guards had more influence in foreign affairs

Opinion Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during Friday prayers in Tehran September 14, 2007. Photo: REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl/File Photo In late March, news of the conclusion of a 25-year Iran-China strategic agreement shook the world and caused a sensation inside Iran. The Islamic Republic appears to have ceded almost all of Iran’s natural and mineral resources, infrastructure, and markets to China for a quarter century, in exchange for security guarantees against the We...

wrote that the reason for this suspicion is Parsi’s relationship with former Iranian UN ambassador and current Foreign Minister Muhammad Javad Zarif. Email exchanges between Parsi and Zarif “show the NIAC founder seeking to arrange meetings and perhaps coordinate on strategy.” At the time of contact, Zarif was at the Permanent Iranian Mission to the UN. The communication took place over email, as in the case of Afrasiabi. In 2008, Parsi sued exiled Iranian journalist Hassan Daioleslam for...

the SL, the GC, the DC, and the Assembly While the Assembly is the most important organ with regard to the appointment of a new SL, the power and influence of the GC and the DC are also considerable. The bodies surrounding Khamenei will also influence the selection. Those bodies include the Office of the Supreme Leader, which employs thousands and has its own intelligence, counterintelligence, and protection organizations. The power of the Office cannot be ignored. The Office has a complex bure...