Trump and Bush: A Comparison (Kaveh L. Afrasiabi, Ph.d, Iran Review)

http://www.iranreview.org/content/Documents/Trump-and-Bush-A-Comparison.htm

US and the Failed Turkish Coup (Kaveh L. Afrasiabi, Iran Review)

http://www.iranreview.org/content/Documents/US-and-the-Failed-Turkish-Coup.htm

UN’s Shameful Reversal On Saudi Atrocities (Kaveh L. Afrasiabi, Eurasia Review)

http://www.eurasiareview.com/10062016-uns-shameful-reversal-on-saudi-atrocities-oped/

South Korea’s New Opening To Iran (Kaveh L. Afrasiabi, Iran Review)

South Korea’s president Park Geun-hye is on a three-day official visit to Iran, accompanied by a 236-person trade delegation, and intent on reversing the recent decline in the bilateral trade between the two countries, which has slipped from $10 billion dollar in 2011 to over $6 billion last year.

http://www.iranreview.org/content/Documents/South-Korea-s-New-Opening-To-Iran-2.htm

Managing Iran's Relations with Russia (Kaveh L. Afrasiabi, Iran Review)

As expected, the western media has perniciously interpreted Russia's sudden announcement of removal of its forces from Syria as an indication of a rift with Iran, thus spinning the news as a wedge between Moscow and Tehran.

http://www.iranreview.org/content/Documents/Managing-Iran-s-Relations-with-Russia.htm

Rohani’s Challenge: Avoiding Khatami’s Tragic Pragmatism (Kaveh L. Afrasiabi, Eurasia Review)

As the dust of the Iranian elections begins to settle and the final tallies reveal a major political shift as a result of the substantial gain of the reformists at the expense of the hard-liners, the big question is if President Hassan Rohani can capitalize on his newly-gained political capital and deliver some of the key promises on economic recovery in the post-nuclear accord context?

http://www.eurasiareview.com/04032016-rohanis-challenge-avoiding-khatamis-tragic-pragmatism-oped/

Flawed Arguments on Iran's Missile Program (Kaveh L. Afrasiabi, Iran Review)

In a recent article in The National Interest, two former US ambassadors, William Luers and Thomas Pickering, as well as Greg Thielmann, senior fellow of the Arms Control Association, have defended the recent US sanctions on Iran over its missile program, calling for a mix of "pressure and diplomacy" to curtail the development of Iran's missile program. The authors draw attention to the parallel development of Saudi and Israeli missile programs, and acknowledge the important role of Iran's missile program given its "outdated air force" and the "potential threats Tehran sees from Israel, Saudi Arabia and the United States." They portray Iran's missile program as "worrisome" and propose a US-led missile diplomacy that would have the objective of freezing "the current range of Iran's missiles (around 2,000 km) to complement the nuclear nonproliferation objectives of the JCPOA. At the same time, the authors realize the regional dimension of the issue and argue in favor of a broader regional security discussion "including parallel regional missile constraints."

http://www.iranreview.org/content/Documents/Flawed-Arguments-on-Iran-s-Missile-Program.htm

Need For 'Incident at Sea Agreement' Between US and Iran (Kaveh L. Afrasiabi, Iran Review)

http://www.iranreview.org/content/Documents/Need-For-Incident-at-Sea-Agreement-Between-US-and-Iran.htm

Need For 'Incident at Sea Agreement' Between US and Iran (Kaveh L. Afrasiabi, Iran Review)

http://www.iranreview.org/content/Documents/Need-For-Incident-at-Sea-Agreement-Between-US-and-Iran.htm

Syria And The Munich Security Conference In Tehran

http://www.eurasiareview.com/17102015-syria-and-the-munich-security-conference-in-tehran-oped/