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EDITORS' NOTE: Reuters and other foreign media are subject to Iranian restrictions on their ability to report, film or take pictures in Tehran. A trader speaks with a stock market official beneath the electronic board at the Tehran stock exchange September 15, 2010. While U.S. diplomats were busy upping Iran's economic punishment over nuclear activities Washington fears are aimed at making a bomb, Iranian shares, which might have been expected to fall, have, instead, gone through the roof. Picture taken September 15, 2010. To match Feature IRAN-ECONOMY/BOURSE REUTERS/Caren Firouz (IRAN - Tags: BUSINESS) - GM1E69U0R0301

How the Iran hostage crisis shaped the US approach to sanctions

Kate Hewitt and Richard Nephew

Tuesday, March 12, 2019

Iraqi soldiers stand guard near an election poster featuring pictures of Shi'ite leader Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani (L), and slain clerics Ayatollah Mohammad Baqir al-Hakim (C) and Ayatollah Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr in the holy city of Najaf December 6, 2005. Iraqis will go to the polls December 15 to elect their first full, four-year parliament since the fall of Saddam Hussein. REUTERS/Ali Abu Shish - RP2DSFIILWAB

Iraq’s failed uprising after the 1979 Iranian revolution

Monday, March 11, 2019

The Iranian flag flutters in front the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) headquarters in Vienna, Austria March 4, 2019. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger - RC1A2FD12B40

America’s torch song for Tehran

Kenneth M Pollack

Friday, March 8, 2019

Soviet tanks roll homeward from Afghanistan October 17, 1986. REUTERS/Stringer BEST QUALITY AVAILABLE - GF2E51A0SKE03

How bad judgement calls brought a chain of blunders: Soviet responses to the Iranian revolution

Thursday, March 7, 2019

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Iran’s Hassan Rouhani rejects resignation of his Foreign Minister Javad Zarif

Ali Fathollah-Nejad

Thursday, February 28, 2019

A general view of phases 2-3 of the South Pars gas field in Assaluyeh seaport at the Persian Gulf about 1400 km (870 miles) south of Tehran, Iran May 27, 2006. Picture taken on May 27, 2006. REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl - GM1DSSEFUIAA

What Iran’s 1979 revolution meant for US and global oil markets

Tuesday, March 5, 2019

A picture of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad is displayed on a damaged structure at the entrance of al-Dukhaneya neighbourhood near Damascus, as civilians carry their belongings recovered from their homes after soldiers loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad regained control of the area from rebel fighters October 7, 2014. REUTERS/Omar Sanadiki (SYRIA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) - GM1EAA71PL001

Can Syria return to the regional stage?

Daniel L. Byman

Thursday, February 28, 2019

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif speaks during the annual Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany February 17, 2019. REUTERS/Andreas Gebert - RC1F3CF15930

Iran’s foreign minister stays on—But with a difficult mandate

Suzanne Maloney

Thursday, February 28, 2019

An Iranian flag flutters in front of the United Nations headquarters in Vienna June 17, 2014. Six world powers and Iran began their fifth round of nuclear negotiations on Tuesday in hopes of salvaging prospects for a deal over Tehran's disputed atomic activity by a July deadline. REUTERS/Heinz-Peter Bader (AUSTRIA - Tags: POLITICS ENERGY)

The Iran question, again

Wednesday, February 20, 2019

Rather than serving as a unifying diplomatic exercise to highlight Iran’s troubling regional activities, the [Warsaw] summit primarily highlighted America’s diplomatic isolation from its European allies.

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