DISCLAIMER : all opinions in this column reflect view of the autor(s), not of Vocal Europe
By Hossein Abedini
The death on Sunday of the Iranian mullah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani marks a milestone in the…
DISCLAIMER: all opinions in this column reflect view of the autor(s), not of Vocal Europe
by Struan Stevenson
The revelation that the Obama administration paid Iran a ransom of almost half a billion dollars in cash…
by Alastair Sloan
Suspend for a moment any care for the Iraqi civilians and British soldiers who died in the 2003 invasion and subsequent years of occupation in Iraq. I’m not saying you don’t care, but let’s for a moment pretend you don’t. As if by magic, you now possess the fundamental emotional…
by Mehrnaz Samimi
Arranged marriages are far from the main means through which nuptials take place in Iran. Long gone, too, are the days when a nervous young man in his early to mid-twenties would scribble…
Vocal Europe
A group from the European Parliament has expressed its solidarity with imprisoned teachers and union leaders in Iran. The chairman of the Friends of a Free Iran (FoFI) group, Gérard Deprez…
by Martin Arnold
European banks are tentatively re-engaging with Iran as the Middle East’s second-largest economy slowly emerges from a sanctions regime that has kept it in the financial wilderness for years. Belgium’s KBC, Germany’s DZ Bank…
by Julia Ann
Iran elections 2016, Observers who portrayed the elections as a action amid ‘reformists’ and ‘hardliners’ accept angry themselves in knots – abnormally afterwards advertisement beforehand that about all reformists had been butterfingers by…
by David Ramin Jalilvand
In early January 2016, tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia escalated. The execution of Saudi Shiite cleric Nimr Baqer al-Nimr sparked outrage among the Middle East's Shiite populations. In Iran, the…
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by Dr. Roubzeh Parsi
After the United States and the European Union have lifted economic sanctions on Iran, the country…
by JUDY DEMPSEY
A selection of experts answer a new question from Judy Dempsey on the foreign and security policy challenges shaping Europe’s role in the world.
Cornelius Adebahr - Associate in Carnegie’s Europe Program
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