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Elections 2020

Oct 6, 2020

Trump or Biden? Iran weighs the pros and cons of closely watched vote

By Borzou Daragahi

How Iran views the election outcome will play an important role in determining its security posture in the coming months: whether it decides to escalate tensions with Washington or offer an olive branch to either an incoming Biden administration or a Trump White House with a renewed mandate.

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Sep 30, 2020

Examining Tehran’s regional strategy

By Kenneth Katzman

Neither the Obama administration’s successful negotiation of the 2015 multilateral Iran nuclear agreement nor the Trump administration’s unilateral withdrawal from the JCPOA and re-imposition of sanctions appear to have dented or retarded Iran’s advancement of its regional goals.

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Elections 2020

Sep 24, 2020

If Trump wins, he needs a new approach to Iran

By Barbara Slavin

If US President Donald Trump wins re-election, he will have an opportunity to review his failed approach toward Iran.

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Sep 23, 2020

After snapback sanctions on Iran: A European perspective

By Michel Duclos

As seen from Europe, which has its own continuing embargo on arms transfers to Iran through 2023, the Trump administration will likely not insist on imposing its "parallel reality" on reluctant allies.

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Sep 23, 2020

How the Iranian air force turned the tide of the Iran-Iraq war in 1980

By Ali Dadpay and Sina Azodi

In the case of the Iranian armed forces, one must speak of months of prosecution, summary executions, and an almost complete breakdown of the chain of command following the 1979 revolution. Yet, despite all odds, the Artesh chose to fight bravely when the Iraqi army invaded Iran on September 20, 1980.

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Sep 17, 2020

Parviz Fattah: The new Ahmadinejad that may be running for president

By Arash Azizi

Despite his constant denials, it is reasonable to believe Parviz Fattah is planning a presidential run.

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Sep 16, 2020

#Don’tExecute: A semi-successful campaign against capital punishment in Iran

By Rebecca Stryer

For the third time in less than two months, Iranians took to Twitter in late August to express their outrage over another death sentence handed out to a protester.

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Sep 14, 2020

Iran’s expansion of uranium stockpile is troubling but manageable

By Kelsey Davenport

Iran’s output of enriched uranium has remained fairly steady over the course of 2020, demonstrating that Tehran is not accelerating production.

Politics & Diplomacy

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Sep 10, 2020

Why Nasrin Sotoudeh is on hunger strike to protest Iran’s dire prison conditions

By Tara Sepehri Far

The prominent Iranian human rights lawyer has been on a hunger strike in Evin prison for almost a month in order to demand the release of the country’s scores of political prisoners.

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Sep 10, 2020

Iran’s reformists don’t have a strategy yet—let alone a candidate

By Raz Zimmt

There is a growing number of voices among the reformist faction indicating confusion and distress less than a year before the June 2021 presidential election.

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