Trita Parsi

Banks need guar­an­tees that they will not be pe­nalised for trans­ac­tions with Iran, when the US starts eas­ing sanc­tions.

What could Wash­ing­ton of­fer Tehran to seal the deal?

New dy­nam­ics both in the Mid­dle East and the US made the Iran nu­clear ac­cord pos­si­ble.

Rouhani’s re­sound­ing vic­to­ry sheds light on at least three fac­tors con­tribut­ing to a sys­temic mis­read­ing of Iran.

While sanc­tions are hav­ing a dev­as­tat­ing ef­fect on Iran’s econ­o­my, they have not changed Tehran’s nu­clear cal­cu­lus.

While Ne­tanyahu’s in­ner cir­cle is agree­ing with him, rest of the coun­try seems to be in­creas­ing­ly unit­ed in op­po­si­tion.

Sarkozy has re­peat­ed­ly pushed an Iran pol­i­cy that ex­ac­er­bates a root cause of the con­ti­nent’s eco­nom­ic malaise.