Category: Kingsway Iran

Iran’s pressures across its political, economic, and security landscapes continue. The Islamic Republic is grappling with intensifying public dissent from collapsing air quality, rising labour and resistance against hijab enforcement. Regionally, Tehran continues to project resolve, advancing its satellite and missile programs. The Rial has seen another historic low. Orbit on the horizon.… Read the…

Water, air pollution and economic crises are nothing new for Iran; however, each seems to be reaching new levels of seriousness. They highlight chronic governmental mismanagement over decades while also posing potentially existential headaches for the regime. Tehran’s two-track strategy. Iran stands ready for either renewed conflict or renewed diplomacy, according to foreign minister Abbas…

Iran’s political and economic landscape is deteriorating into another turbulent new phase with UN sanctions snapping back and the rial falling even to new historic lows. As usual, Tehran is tightening restrictions at home and projecting defiance abroad. With Europe upping the pressure through multilateral channels, Iran is digging in - rejecting nuclear limits, arguing…

Iran faces a volatile remainder of the month, balancing tentative nuclear cooperation with the IAEA against domestic opposition and the looming threat of UN snapback sanctions. Hardliners decry the deal made in Cairo, while moderates warn of systemic collapse without urgent reform. At the same time, oil exports to China surge, the rial stabilises slightly,…

The JCPOA is nearing the end of its 10-year lifespan, but the anticipated lifting of all nuclear-related sanctions - and the associated economic relief - is unlikely to occur. In the absence of significant progress in talks (on enrichment, regional proxies, the missile program, and support for Russia’s campaign in Ukraine), the E3 must decide…

The Iran–Israel conflict that erupted on 13th June saw Israel launch airstrikes on Iranian nuclear and military sites, killing key scientists and commanders. Iran retaliated with hundreds of ballistic missiles targeting Israeli cities, escalating into a multi-day exchange. The US intervened on 22 June with bunker-buster strikes on major Iranian nuclear facilities, and a ceasefire…

As the week came to an end in Tehran, and with another round of diplomacy set to start, the Israelis lost patience and struck multiple targets in Iran. After three days the conflict has entered a volatile new phase, marked by precision strikes, missile barrages, and rising civilian casualties. What began as a targeted Israeli…

More talks. Few details or positive signs have come from them but the fact that they are still ongoing shows both sides’ willingness to see what concessions are on the table. The US Administration is confused about what those might be. More bad news on the economy underscores the need for economic concessions but not…

Since last month, we have gone from a public rejection by Iran’s Supreme Leader of a US offer to talk, to a first indirect meeting of envoys in Oman. Trump aims to resolve the nuclear situation -and more- by June and will ratchet up the pressure between now and then. Talks announced, divisions with Israel.……

Trump’s letter to Khamenei, scarred from his experience of Trump’s reneging on the last nuclear deal, elicits a negative response. More external ‘maximum pressure’ is on its way. Internally, the screws are being turned on domestic dissenters. Nuclear negotiations. Iran is on the brink of developing nuclear weapons, according to a warning from the IAEA.………