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November 08,2020
Posterity will judge the outgoing president of the United States, Donald Trump, who lost his job on Saturday because of the immense harm he inflicted on his own people, not to mention the...
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April 03,2020
One issue that is of serious concern to informed minds is if the corona virus hangs around for another six to eight months what will become of state and government institutions all over the world...
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March 03,2020
Truth be told, most big companies, banks, state and government organizations are prone to corruption, mismanagement, larceny, fraud and waste.
But a time comes when some no-nonsense folks start...
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January 25,2020
Departure tax is a permanent fixture in many parts of the world for people travelling abroad. In some countries, both citizens and foreigners have to pay before moving out by air, sea or land....
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December 28,2019
Sincere stakeholders, in the anti-FATF camp in Tehran, say now is not the time to embrace the Financial Action Task Force rules. Their argument is premised on the reality that the country is...
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December 11,2019
Policies, prospects, priorities and perceptions so imperfectly explained in the 2020-21 fiscal budget President Hassan Rouhani presented on Sunday are yet another reminder of the truth that the...
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November 27,2019
Friend and foe have been trying hard to figure out what happened and why in the eight days after the government decided to cut fuel subsidies, sending gasoline prices to levels unseen in Iran ever...
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March 14,2017
Transparency in the bloated banks and their balance sheets, fiscal discipline and replacing...
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November 07,2016
One thing is all but certain. The status quo of banks, with their...
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October 24,2016
Our country has reached a time in its contemporary history when the...
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June 25,2016
June 23, 2016 will go down in the history of the United Kingdom as the day when decades of deep distortions, divisions and differences in and among its people were laid barefor the world to see. For...
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January 18,2016
As we navigate the post-sanctions landscape the one sticky word that will keep...
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November 14,2015
Let’s call a spade a spade and move on – this time by taking a closer look at some critical...
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September 21,2015
Over the past eight weeks a stop in Tehran has become de rigueur for international business...
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July 19,2015
What should and should not be read into last week’s ‘historic deal’ between Iran and...
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May 13,2015
Even before the panic and pandemonium was crafted over the "concerns" of Persian Gulf ...
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April 17,2015
Robust diplomacy and profound technical skill will be put to a test of epic proportions in the coming ten weeks as Iran and the so-called P5+1 meet to work out the minute details of the Joint...
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March 04,2015
On Tuesday the US Congress had a guest. The prime minster of the occupying power...
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February 08,2015
Despair, disarray and dismay are but a few polite terms one can borrow...
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January 20,2015
This weekend was a bit different for economic Iran and the obstreperous free-marketeers long...
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December 29,2014
Thirteen years and a disastrous war later, the US-led North Atlantic Treaty...
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December 09,2014
Those relying on oil revenues are in for a rude awakening since summer. The international price of...
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December 08,2014
In countries where rule of law is king, the elite are the most responsible for their actions or the lack of it. Translation: authority and responsibility go together and nobody is above the law.
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November 08,2014
Last autumn it was inconceivable for some of the most optimistic international ...
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September 17,2014
Leaving politics, for now, to political scientists, it is in the interest of rulers and the ruled to look closely at what is...