Vol.4 - No. 13 - Summer 2019

Editor's Note

Editor's Note   War, a Challenge for the White House, not an Option The United States' tiresome and repetitive projects in dealing with Iran and Iran's regional influence have all failed with no exception. Today's world's evalnation about America's passive policies against Iran's willpower, courage and intelligence as merely desperate and confused. Many American theorists believe that Trump, the American President, is stuck in a dead-end way of his own making and is short of an...

Special Interview with Nechirvan Barzani, Kurdish Region President

Nechirvan Barzani, born in 1966, was eight years old in 1974 when he had to leave Iraq along with his family and his grandfather, Mulla Mustafa Barzani, and tens of thousands of Kurds living under Iraqi rule. They were forced into exile into Iran to seek safety from Iraq's Ba'ath regime which committed tremendous brutalities. He had his education in Iran, joined Kurdistan Democratic Party (Party) which Mulla Mustafa had founded and became a member of the political office of the party. He lost his father in 1987...

The US Political Approaches against Iran: Forty Years of War between Willpowers

Baqir Jabr al-Zubeidi (Bayan Jabr)
Former Minister of Interior in Iraqi Transitional Government

  Iran was of special consequence in America's strategic plan and the US did its best to extend its influence in this important West Asian country after the overthrowing of Dr. Mohammad Mosaddeq in 1952. However, the Islamic revolution demonstrated its revolutionary positions and surprised Washington; it not only disclosed its policies and positions against the global oppression, but supported freedom-seeking movements of the world such as Lebanon's resistance groups and Palestine's armed forces. By...

Experts' Panel about US-Iran Relations; challenges and prospects

Dr. Mohammad Jamshidi

  Thought US-Iran conflict isn't a new problem it has gone through different phases. Even though changes in the security environment of the region and global geo-strategic balance have affected the formation of US-Iran conflict, we can safely assume that all the hostilities stem from the fact that the United States never recognized the Islamic Republic of Iran and have always tried to destroy the Islamic regime. Therefore, policies such as military action, attempts to overthrow the regime and sanctions...

.Hezbollah's Advanced Weaponry and Strategic Balance

Haj Hussein Khalil
Political Deputy of Hezbollah General Secretary

  Haj Hussein Khalil, Hezbollah political deputy and a member of Lebanon Hezbollah's council, is one of the prominent figures who has fought with the Zionist regime's threats to eliminate Lebanon's hostile occupants. Simultaneously, he has determinedly opposed American conspiratorial plans in his country and West Asia region. Hussein Khalil, who is politically intelligent, socially admirable and organizationally acceptable, has played a role in the most important political equations, and as a...

The Islamic Republic of Iran's Increase of Power and Regional Influence

Hadi Mohammadi
Political writer and analyst

  During the past forty years, since the Iranian Islamic Revolution till today, all the anti-Iranian hostile acts have had a common theoretical background and originated from the United States of America that has put its policies, strategies and initiatives against Iran into action with a realistic rationale. On the other hand, Iran has done its best for internal reinforcement or having an important regional role and balancing the power scale with a justice-seeking realism. The West Asian region has always...

Iran's Missile Program and the United States' Security Approach to it

Seyyed Mehdi Husseini Matin
Ph.D. in International Relations, university professor and researcher o international issues in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

  The most important concern of any political unit during the time of anarchy is its safety and survival. The governments, as the main actors of the international system are always trying to increase their capabilities to establish security. Iran's missile program, as a reaction to security threats from the beginning (1980s and during the Iran-Iraq war) have always had a defensive and deterrent nature, and both political and defensive authorities of this country have repeatedly emphasize on this position....

US-Iran Strategic Conflict and the Scenarios Ahead

Mostafa Mohammadi

As a result of the inefficiency of sanctions to realize America's goal of Iranian regime's collapse or surrender with irrational conditions and also of the contradictory results of the policy of the maximum pressure, the United States government has now the lower hand with no suitable option to get out of the current crisis. On the one hand, the sanctions are at the highest level possible and can't be possibly increased. On the other, using the military option against Iran will bring about countless...