How Much Influence Will Iran Have in Post-US Afghanistan?Though Iran has been sponsoring projects in Afghanistan for years, Afghans have grown skeptical of their neighbor's intentions.Peterson, Scott
The U.S. and Iran seem to be waiting for the other side to make the first step. Iran's suffering an inflation rate of more than 40 percent. Li Guofu, a senior research fellow at the China Institute of International Studies, discusses how much longer Iran can cope with...
“There has been a consistent pattern of actions taken against Hezbollah, both through tough sanctions and law enforcement actions before and after the Iran deal,” said Kevin Lewis, an Obama spokesman who worked at both the White House and Justice Department in the administration. ...
The sad fact is that reason is a weak instrument when it comes to changing minds generally; and all the more so once someone has been persuaded to hate. Hatred is not only ugly; it is durable and it’s costly — it costs all of us, not just the ones left to grieve directly. That...
On 3rd January 2020, it was announced that the Iranian Major-General Qasem Soleimani was killed in a US airstrike, with Iran calling for ‘severe revenge’. While the outcome is not yet known, this doesignite fears of a conflict in the Middle East, and it pays to be more aware of tra...
The U.S. signaled as much with the decision to work with Qatar to silently suspend Iran’s access to the $6 billion in humanitarian assistance. Admittedly, U.S. politicians who claimed that this $6 billion facilitated Hamas’ recent attacks have their concerns somewhat misplaced because the ...
The concept of sustainable development has evolved into a paradigm for development and has become a reference for environmental science study [39]. Sustainable development is much more than economic development and includes wide dimensions such as social, economic, political, cultural, environmental, and...
It is specially in a big family like ours that such an idea takes hold—we decided to have a special celebration of Mother’s Day. We thought it a fine idea. It made us all realize how much Mother had d...
“If I could choose any place in the world, it would have to be someplace calm, as I am a rather introverted person,” Sohrab answered when dwelling on where he would most like to live.That’s what he enjoys so much about Leuven and its ancient buildings and cobblestone roads along the...
While it still remains a seminal text, much has changed in perfumery in the past decades, to the point that creation is conceptualized differently. With this in mind, where does this leave a perfume lover? What should you do in order to learn how to identify perfume notes and how to ...