The world is facing an undeniably high level of uncertainty and oil price is just one of the unknown variables that impacts the future global outlook.
Investors and analysts are…
Implementation of the nuclear deal with the six world powers, which is a long-term agreement, encourages all parties to ponder that nuclear tension should not expose Iran to unnecessary political…
As we navigate the post-sanctions landscape the one sticky word that will keep dominating the new narrative, for better or worse, is oil. Long before the international sanctions were lifted on…
Writing about visa restrictions is never an easy task for any Iranian who have lived and worked in other countries. Among these groups Iranian Americans and Iranians living in the United States…
Let’s call a spade a spade and move on – this time by taking a closer look at some critical numbers with which the government has to make do.
In light of the nuclear agreement between Iran and the six world powers (aka the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action), Iranians obviously have high expectations from the deal. The hope for…
Do changes towards left center parties in Europe constitute a positive sum? With prolonged austerity measures across the continent, it seems the frustrated voters are moving away from passive…
Over the past eight weeks a stop in Tehran has become de rigueur for international business and industry stakeholders along with the energy multinationals, especially from Europe, and for obvious…
Iran’s petrochemical industry has been gearing up for a leap forward. It should learn from the past to welcome the dawn of a new era.
When President Hassan Rouhani took office in the summer of 2013 economists recommended that Iran should follow pragmatic policies to produce fiscal and monetary stability while opening its…
After a long and drawn out dispute over the scale and scope of Tehran’s nuclear energy program, a historic deal between the permanent members of the United Nation Security Council—the US, Britain…
What should and should not be read into last week’s ‘historic deal’ between Iran and the six world powers over Tehran’s nuclear energy program has been recited chapter and verse by politicians and…
Even before the panic and pandemonium was crafted over the "concerns" of Persian Gulf Arab dynasties terrified about President Barak Obama wanting to normalize ties with Iran after a final nuclear…
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…
On Tuesday the US Congress had a guest. The prime minster of the occupying power in Palestine, Benjamin Netanyahu unleashed his mounting desperation and usual diatribe against Iran and its nuclear…
Dust storms have engulfed communities, cities and airports from Cairo, Egypt to the City of Zanjan in central Iran. Half a dozen countries in the Middle East were affected by the latest storms.…
Despair, disarray and dismay are but a few polite terms one can borrow to define the unprecedented debacle visiting the Obama White House over the past several weeks. How else could politicians…
This weekend was a bit different for economic Iran and the obstreperous free-marketeers long waiting to detect new signs of fatigue in and strong opposition to centralized economies.
Thirteen years and a disastrous war later, the US-led North Atlantic Treaty Alliance finally ended its war in Afghanistan on Sunday. In 2011 the 50-nation military alliance had 130,000 troops in…
Those relying on oil revenues are in for a rude awakening since summer. The international price of crude has tumbled more than 35 percent since June and there is simply nothing to indicate that…
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.…
Attention is now shifting towards the potentially hot debate in parliament over the 2015-16 budget bill. Observers across the political-economic spectrum are keen to know how the government…
Business cycle is the period of boom and bust in the level of economic activities. Research about Iran’s business cycles over the past three decades conducted by the Central Bank of Iran, shows…
Last autumn it was inconceivable for some of the most optimistic international observers that senior officials from Iran and the United States would be in the same room, leave alone discuss…
Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, interaction between Iran and the United States has hardly been what we have experienced over the past 12 months. Both sides have been demonstrating their…
