Articles written by: Nima Khorrami Assl
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Wednesday, 25 Apr, 2012
Today, Ankara and Beijing prefer to put their various differences to rest, and instead utilize their newly found economic and diplomatic might to advance their national interests in Africa, Central Asia, and the Middle East. In other words, China and Turkey have entered a new period of strategic cooperation, the foundation of which was set in stone during the official exchanges by the Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and the Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, in 2010.
To this end, China ...
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Tuesday, 17 Apr, 2012
Reuters's report on March 5 that a major Chinese ship insurer – China P&I Club – has decided to "halt indemnity coverage for tankers carrying Iranian oil" has led to an euphoria amongst western policymakers who seem to view it as the clearest sign of the Chinese government's changing stance on the enforcement of western-led sanction regimes against Iran.
To be sure, P&I's decision does imply that both ship owners and Iran's chief crude oil customers – namely, China, India, ...
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Saturday, 14 Apr, 2012
A revival of, or more accurately an intensification of, the ongoing yet veiled strategic rivalry between Iran and Turkey was all but inevitable once popular protests in the Ara...
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Monday, 27 Feb, 2012
Recent remarks by President Ahmadinejad’s top advisor and close ally, Ali Akbar Javanfekr, have shed some light on yet another setback for Iran at a time of increasing diplom...
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Friday, 16 Dec, 2011
Much to the credit of Israeli analysts and politicians, who were arguably the first bunch to predict the revitalizing effects of Arab Spring on political Islam, it is now indisputa...
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Monday, 12 Dec, 2011
Reforming the economy has been a key objective of Iran’s government since President Ahmadinejad’s troubled reelection in 2009. For example, despite widespread objections, A...
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Thursday, 8 Dec, 2011
Since his troubled reelection in 2009, reforming the economy has been the key objective of the President Ahmadinejad government. In spite of widespread objections, for example,...
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Monday, 28 Nov, 2011
Last week I was in Dubai where I managed to talk to a group of Iranian holidaymakers about the current socio-political situation in Iran. To my utter disbelief, when I asked th...
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Monday, 14 Nov, 2011
Over the past couple of weeks, speculations about an American or Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear facilities have dominated news headlines around the globe. With the ...
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Monday, 31 Oct, 2011
In conversation with eminent Chinese scholars, Professor Li Weijian and Professor Ye Qing, The Majalla discusses China, the Middle East and the Arab World Transformation.
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