On March 14th 2017, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) held a round table at the Media Center of “Rossiya Segodnya” on Russia-Iran relations, aiming at analyzing the present stage and the prospects for a further development. The event was attended by RIAC President and former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation from 1998 to 2004 Igor Ivanov, Ambassador Extraordinary ...
... USSR) into a protracted confrontation between Armenia and Azerbaijan with the prospects for resolution being unclear
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. Russia (the successor to the USSR) has expressed an interest in settling this confrontation, as have neighbouring Turkey and Iran, and a number of external actors, namely the United States and the European Union.
In May 1994, when
the Open-Ended Ceasefire Agreement
came into force, it marked the next stage of the conflict, which could be defined as “a dynamic status ...
... Armenia’s stability, as the lion’s share of trade turnover flowsthrough Georgian ports and mountains.
The “black swan” capable of altering future scenarios for Armenia — both domestically, regionally, and internationally — is Iran. Provided that all relevant parties remain satisfied with the implementation of JCPOA, signed in 2015, Iran will eventually and formally enter great power politics in the next five years. Even though Tehran has been a staunch partner and ally ever ...
On February 6, Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, met with Seyed Kazem Sajjadpour, Director, Institute for Political & International Studies (
IPIS
), and Ambassador Seyed Rasoul Mousavi, Advisor to Iran's Minister of Foreign affairs.
The meeting covered RIAC-IPIS cooperation, initiated in 2014, and preparation and organization of an international conference on Russia-Iran relations' development issues in Tehran. The conference is to take place in ...
... is marked with serious uncertainty about its future. Critics in Tehran call the agreement ineffective and Trump considers it to be a historically bad negotiation. But as election days in Tehran approach, it's becoming more important to have a look at Iranian perspective on JCPOA. Iranian Public opinion positively reacted to JCPOA. People's support for JCPOA comes from a general belief that the deal could help the economy flourish, improve living standards, sustain their security and bring other tangible ...
On December 27, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Islamic Republic of Iran Mehdi Sanaei hosted Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, and Ruslan Mamedov, RIAC Program Assistant, at Iran's Embassy in Moscow.
The parties discussed current issues of the international agenda and shared their evaluations of Russia-Iran relations ...
The Report is prepared by the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) in partnership with the Institute for Iran-Eurasia Studies (IRAS)
The Report is prepared by the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) in partnership with the Institute for Iran-Eurasia Studies (
IRAS
) as part of the project “Russia-Iran Relations on the Modern Stage”.
The goal ...
Sectarian warfare is not a very new issue in the Islamic world because for decades Saudi-Arabia and Iran wish to dominate the Islamic globe, Iran exports the Shiite Islamic revolution doctrines and Saudi-Arabia the Wahabistic Islamic tenets to the Muslim world, unfortunately, both countries enjoy rich oil reserves and miss-using petrol-bucks to lead ...
... the possibility of Russia working with OPEC as a whole is fairly low, since that organisation is beset by internal dissent. The primary line of confrontation lies between Saudi Arabia's position, advocating a freeze on oil production, and the plans by Iran and Iraq to increase output. It was the Saudis' unwillingness to agree a freeze unless Iran joined the agreement that
scuppered the Doha talks
in April 2016. A similar result likely awaits the OPEC meeting on 30 November, at which the member nations ...
... Barelvi adherents, in turn, have a close relationship with Iraq, which has on its territory sacred for them graves of distinguished opinion leaders and spiritual guides
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. Third, Shiite political organizations that one way or another are dependent on Iran and come under the religious and political influence of Qom and Tehran.
It should be noted that the new level of mediation by Iran has become an important factor for the
increased involvement of Afghans
in the fight against the Islamic State in ...
