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Testing Turkey Soner Cagaptay For all the talk of Turkey’s “zero problems with neighbors,” no amount of soft power has been able to protect the country from the protracted civil war in Syria. Now over two years old, that conflict has laid bare Ankara’s inability to match Tehran’s...

Iran's Nuclear Program Gets 2 Major Upgrades In Uranium Enrichment And Plutonium Production, IAEA Says By GEORGE JAHN 05/22/13 VIENNA — The U.N. atomic agency on Wednesday detailed rapid Iranian progress in two programs that the West fears are geared toward making nuclear weapons, saying...

A grand retreat from confronting Iran? By DAVID M. WEINBERG 05/23/2013 Washington wags are preparing a climb-down from Obama’s declared policy of halting Tehran’s nuclear drive. A new Washington report headlined by former US under secretary of state for political affairs...

And the winner is - Khamenei By Pepe Escobar Nothing will be left to chance - even the hint of a green protest wave. In 2009, 475 candidates registered to run for Iran's presidency. Only four were approved by the Guardian Council - the all-powerful, vetting clerical committee. This year, no...

رد صلاحیت خود را ظلم می دانم و آن را از طریق رهبر&#1740...

Blow for reformists as Rafsanjani and Mashaei are barred from Iran election Two important figures in Iranian politics including the former president, Akbar Hachemi Rafsanjani, have been barred from running in next month’s presidential election. In a blow to potential reformists, the list...

Turkey Fears Russia Too Much to Intervene in Syria Ankara won't step into the conflict because it's terrified Moscow will retaliate -- again. Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu (R) reach out to shake hands following a joint news...

Behind the Rhetoric: The Real Iran | BBC Documentary

Who is Mashaei? BBC Persian

Iranian Armenians hold protest near Turkish embassy in Tehran The Iranian authorities have allowed Iranian Armenians to hold a protest near the Turkish embassy in Tehran, Hayeli.com reported. Iranian Armenians attended a commemoration service for the victims of the Armenian Genocide...

Armenian demonstration in Tehran - The annual remembrance day of the Turkish genocide ???: ???? ?????? ????? ????? ????? ?????

Never said that Iran has the largest gas reserves...read my previous post again...what I said is that that Iran holds the world´s largest combined oil and gas reserves..oil + gas

Russia is more than thrilled to see Iranian oil and gas being cut off the European market.. it is well known that Iran is the most potent long term competitor to Russian oil and gas exports to the European continent...Iran holds the worlds greatest combined fossil energy reserves...

Some famous quotes made by Esfandiar Mashaei: "No nation in the world is our enemy, Iran is a friend of the nation in the United States and in Israel, and this is an honor. We view the American nation as one with the greatest nations of the world." "Today, Iran is friends with the American...

Russia’s new Middle East energy game Moscow won’t jeopardize its new deeply strategic energy partnership with its Israeli-Greek Cypriot ‘Western’ partners. Where does that leave Iran? Can Iran possibly compete with Russia primary priority: energy? If anything offers...

US seeks Israel-Turkey alliance against Iran: Franklin Lamb An analyst says the warming up to Turkey is so Israel can seek to have a military base on Turkish soil to be in closer proximity to attack Iran. In the background of this United States Secretary of State John Kerry said the...

Iran Curbs Spark Trade Shift By JAY SOLOMON THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Iran's finance minister, Shamseddin Hosseini, shown at Parliament in a file photo, says the nation is seeking to boost its non-oil trade. WASHINGTON—Iran is accelerating its efforts to buoy its non-oil trade and to...

India may propose preferential trade deal with Iran NEW DELHI: India is likely to propose a preferential tariff arrangement to Iran to boost the bilateral trade between the two countries, hoping higher exports will help it pay for crude oil imported through the rupee payment mechanism set up...