Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the Iranian nation has never sought and will never seek nuclear weapons as it has the capacity to challenge the nuclear-backed influence such powers rely on.

Zbigniew Brzezinski knows something about dealing with Iranians and his advice to President Barack Obama is this: Don’t start a war with Iran. National security adviser three decades ago when the Carter administration struggled to free U.S. hostages in Iran, Brzezinski says that Obama should not attack Iran’s nuclear sites even if that gives political ammunition to his more hawkish Republican opponents.

The new resolution—despite ostensibly aiming for an agreement with Iran—would damage the prospects for negotiating any such agreement. The resolution calls for terms that are understandably non-starters for Iran. In referring to “the full and sustained suspension of all uranium enrichment-related and reprocessing activities,” the resolution appears to rule out an Iranian enrichment program under international supervision and inspection, which almost certainly would have to be part of any formula that could gain the agreement of both Iran and the western powers.

Four years after withdrawal of the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) forces from Gaza Strip and separation of Gaza from the West Bank, Palestinians have managed to forge an agreement in the heat of political developments in the Middle East by agreeing to form a national unity government with Mahmoud Abbas as prime minister. Although selecting Mahmoud Abbas for the post has raised many questions, this article discusses the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu’s position on the Palestinian agreement and its underlying reasons.

Rapid and complicated developments in the Middle East, especially in Syria, should be considered a turning point in historical relations between Tehran and Moscow, which despite certain differences between the two countries have created many common grounds for the promotion of relations between Tehran and Moscow. This brief article will explore those commonalties in a bid to provide better understanding of recent developments in two countries’ relations.

Enforcing sanctions against Iran's oil imports by the European Union will pose a serious threat to global economy and energy security. The main goal of the sanctions is to bring about a basic change in Iran's nuclear program and keep the balance of regional power by using such means as threat of force or sanctions. However, given the growing trend of economic globalization and increased interdependence between energy producers and consumers, and due to emergence of new effective actors in political and economic equations of the world, the entire globe is now experiencing a new paradigm. As a result, solutions sought to political challenges in the 20th century are no more efficient to tackle challenges in the 21st century.

The Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei attended last week’s Friday Prayer’s in Tehran and while referring to mounting threats of the United States and Israel, gave an important answer to those threats. During the past few weeks, Tel Aviv and Washington have tried to make the most of the recent faceoff between Iran and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) by beating on the war drums.

Iran's nuclear program will not live or die because of economic sanctions. Such pressures simply will not change the country's nuclear policy. The idea that they could is based on the faulty belief that multilateral action and the threat of war could bring Tehran back to the negotiating table, and, ultimately, push it to surrender all uranium enrichment programs. Not only will sanctions do no such thing, they will unite all of Iran's political factions under a pro-nuclear banner, making talks impossible.

It would be misguided for the United States to count on exploiting possible cleavages within the Iranian leadership. Iran's prominent politicians have their differences -- like those in all countries -- but they will be united against foreign interference and aggression.

The Iranians were among the pioneer carpet weavers of the ancient civilizations, having achieved a superlative degree of perfection through centuries of creativity and ingenuity. The skill of carpet weaving has been handed down by fathers to their sons, who built upon those skills and in turn handed them down to their offspring as a closely guarded family secret. To trace the history of Persian carpet is to follow a path of cultural growth of one of the greatest civilizations the world has ever seen.