Vatanka Reports
News and Analysis on the Greater Middle East 
 

Iran has a military-industrial complex problem.

Interview with Alex Vatanka

For the first time since 1979, Iran has given a foreign power the right to conduct military operations from its soil.

On August 8, the leaders of Azerbaijan, Iran, and Russia gathered for a rare trilateral summit in Azerbaijan’s capital, Baku.

The next U.S. presidential term will coincide with heightened domestic competition for power in Tehran, which will shape Iranian posture toward Washington.

On June 6, Khorasan Province of Islamic State claimed credit for the killing of Sher Wali Wardak, an Afghan parliamentarian.

On May 10, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry prepared to discuss Iranian sanctions with leading members of the European banking industry in London.

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Iran on May 22 follows his state visits in the past year to the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia

On March 10, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei met with a group of elderly clerics from the Assembly of Experts—

On paper, Iran should be the one country in west Asia that does its utmost to counter the message of Islamic State (ISIS).

The failed outcome of Sunday’s summit in Doha by top oil exporters was no surprise.

Iran’s deputy foreign minister for Arab and African affairs, Hossein Amir Abdollahian, promised this week that Tehran would “update” its Africa strategy, pursuing a “new level” of strategic relations in the coming years.