Somaye Morovati
During the past two years, Iran's relations with the outside world had been divided into pre- and post-JCPOA eras and now they are defined on the basis of the date when US President Donald Trump decided to withdraw from the nuclear deal with Iran, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). 

Mehdi Zakerian
The recent speech by the secretary of state of Donald Trump's regime, which was addressed to a group of people who were claimed to be Iranian-Americans, proved that this regime has lost hope in getting the support of the Iranian people. Mike Pompeo has been forced to make recourse to people who claim that they represent the Iranian people outside the country. 

Hesamoddin Hojjatzadeh
Pakistan held its parliamentary election on July 25 with more than 100 million eligible voters. The election was held at a time that the country has been experiencing one year of political instability after unwilling resignation of Mohammad Nawaz Sharif from his post as prime minister in July 2017. 

Keyhan Barzegar
The policy announced by the US President Donald Trump to “reduce to zero” Iran's oil exports followed by declaration of readiness by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to fill Iran's oil void, elicited a sharp reaction from Iranian President Hassan Rouhani who stipulated that “if Iran's oil is not exported, no other oil will be exported from the region either.”

Azizollah Hatamzadeh
Given the fact that the totality of the West – the United States plus Europe – has been adopting a confrontational position against the Islamic Revolution in Iran since the outset and the two sides’ large-scale approaches to international system have been at loggerheads, the Islamic Republic of Iran has been trying since its beginning to expand relations with the East, especially China and Russia.

Behzad Khoshandam
On the third anniversary of the signing of Iran's nuclear deal with the P5+1 group of countries,On the third anniversary of the signing of Iran's nuclear deal with the P5+1 group of countries, the outlook for survival or demise of this important achievement of international diplomacy is closely and effectively related to domestic policies.

Behzad Ahmadi
The summit meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was held in Brussels on July 11-12 at a time that transatlantic relations were under tremendous pressure due to US President Donald Trump’s positions while various domestic and foreign challenges have affected internal coherence and external efficiency of NATO.

It is true that US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to allow immigrant families found crossing the border illegally to remain together in detention. But it is also true that the executive order doesn’t guarantee that separated families will ever be united permanently.

Former diplomat Ali Khorram discusses the recurrent motif of Iran’s ‘turn towards East’ policy and closer relations with China and Russia.

Kaveh L. Afrasiabi
One day after yet another military aggression against Syria by its missile strikes against the Syrian military targets in Homs and Aleppo, the Israeli government went on the media offensive against Iran by patting itself on its own shoulder for achieving a major intelligence coup yielding a huge cache of Iran's secret nuclear files.