The recent declarations in Iranian Elections tend to point the importance of the economy. If the economy is not going to recover anytime soon , there is a high probability ...
Iran and Saudi Arabia are countries where freedom of expression is more than limited and where the governments tried to control the medias and the interpersonal relations between individual especially ...
Summary Over the weekend, 33 million Iranians went to the polls to vote in historic dual elections, and the results suggest that an important change is underway in Iranian politics. ...
With King Abdullah II spending 25% of his time abroad in 2015, the Jordanian monarch has not lacked opportunities to meet foreign leaders. Three months into 2016, Abdullah has already visited ...
Why Erdogan can’t end PKK war Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s months-long war against the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) has become unbearably destructive and deadly, and the violence is threatening to spill over into western Turkey. The ...
Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud gave Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi a very warm welcome last weekend in a public tilt of Saudi policy toward New Delhi ...
Forecast In elections for the Iran legislature and its powerful Assembly of Experts on Feb. 26, the country’s conservative leadership will prevent any major moves toward reform. Although most reformist candidates are barred from ...
Analysis A powerful explosion went off in Istanbul near the city’s most prominent tourist attractions on Jan. 12, killing at least 10 people and injuring six foreign tourists. The blast, ...
Summary As with many energy-exporting countries in the former Soviet Union, low global oil prices have hurt Azerbaijan, causing its economy to slow and its currency to tumble. And as ...
Forecast Persistent tension between Moscow and Kiev will encourage Russia to keep looking for pipeline routes to Europe that bypass Ukraine. TurkStream will probably remain shuttered until icy Russia-Turkey relations ...