The 18th summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Qingdao ended with the organization refraining from giving a clear answer to Iran's request for full membership of SCO once again.

With the US withdrawal from the JCPOA, it seems that all paths to the survival of this agreement lead to Brussels.

The centuries-old relations between India and Iran have witnessed several ups and downs throughout history due to domestic, regional and international factors.

Iran’s red lines concerning intervention in Syria are the presence of the regime and the securing of the resistance line. As Turkey does not directly threaten these concerns, it is possible for Tehran to be more empathetic to Ankara's priorities in Syria.

Protests erupted in Mashhad, Iran's second-largest city, on December 28 following a massive hike in prices of various food items.

The ambiguity between the rhetoric and action is a well-thought-out policy of Iran’s power brokers to manage both the constituencies.

The demonstrations have been triggered by economic factors but a look at the protest slogans, and the potential figures backing the protests, shows that there might be more to the unrest.

Iran may face two major risks in the current phase: an extensive Israeli attack and second, the incrimination of Trump’s crackdown on the country.

The recent developments in Northern Iraq and Kirkuk have once again brought Iran’s role in the region and its relations with Turkey to the agenda.

The issue of the referendum in Northern Iraq is not simply an ethnic matter.

Despite the existence of a number of reformist and conservative names in the new cabinet it looks, at least on paper, a non-partisan one as Rouhani had promised to form.

Fundamentally, Turkey seems to have decided to carry out a restructuring in her armed forces, upon realizing that she could not make use of them at the desired level in recent regional developments.