French FM in Tehran to discuss missiles, Syria 3/5/2018 7:49:53 PM   facebook Google+ ► Print The French Foreign Minister in Tehran amid rising global tensions Iran’s role in the seven-year-long war in Syria. Orient Net, 5  March 20  18 -- The French Foreign Minister has arrived in Tehran amid rising global tensions over the future of the 2015 nuclear deal and Iran’s role in the seven-year-long war in Syria. Jean-Yves Le Drian’s visit was originally scheduled for January, but it was delayed after mass protests broke out in many Iranian cities. An Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said that during his two-day visit, Le Drian was due to meet with President Hassan Rohani and Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif to discuss 'bilateral, regional, and international issues,' including the implementation of the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers under which Tehran has significantly limited its nuclear activities in exchange for sanctio...

What are the policy options for dealing with Iranian regime? F. Mahmoudi, Special to Al Arabiya English Monday, 9 October 2017 Text size  A   A   A On browsing social media accounts of Iranian activists — on Feacebook, Twitter, Telegram and Instagram — one can feel the pulse of the Iranian society, where a sense of social unease and protest is evidently brewing. Even regime officials are writing in the social media about the “huge challenges” they are facing from protesting social classes, such as laborers who have not recieved their salaries and farmers who await payment for their produce. There are also investors and depositors whose money has been blocked by state institutions. University students are facing a hard time finding jobs and there is also a dramatic increase in the number of unemployed and homeless. On the other hand, many families who lost their children in the 1988 massacre in prisons still do not know the burial sites of...