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.

The CIA Director "Mike Pompeo", who is nominee for Secretary of State, has recently mentioned meaningful words in his hearing at the Senate on Iran and the nuclear deal. In his words, he acknowledged that Iran was not after nuclear weapons even before the nuclear deal, nor will be in the future.

Seyyed Reza Salehi Amiri
Nowruz, this national and ancient Iranian festival, has weathered wear and tear of time over long years and has showed off its beauty in a more colorful way year after year. 

William Hartung
After a few days of threatening tweets and tough guy rhetoric, Donald Trump went ahead and instructed the U.S. military to bomb Syria in response to a chemical weapons attack on civilians there that has been widely attributed to the Assad regime.

Mohammad Ghaderi and Javad Heiran-Nia

During his presidential campaign, Donald Trump called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) “the worst deal ever” for the US. In his first State of the Union address in January, Trump called on Congress to “fix the terrible flaws” of the Iran nuclear deal.