As Iran faces virus, Trump admin fails to use Swiss channel to ease medical exports
Three months after a successful pilot transaction, the US-backed Swiss Humanitarian Trade Arrangement (SHTA) with Iran has not processed a single additional sale.
Three months after a successful pilot transaction, the US-backed Swiss Humanitarian Trade Arrangement (SHTA) with Iran has not processed a single additional sale.
On 22 April Iran successfully launched its first military satellite, unveiling its parallel IRGC-run space program for the first time. Is Iran embarking on a hedging strategy aimed at acquiring long-range ballistic missile technology?
The Asia Pacific Leadership Network (APLN) has endorsed the ELN and The Iran Project’s joint statement “Transatlantic Call to Ease Humanitarian Trade with Iran due to the Covid-19 Pandemic”.
The ELN and The Iran Project release a joint, high-level transatlantic statement on US sanctions and the need to ease humanitarian trade with Iran in the wake of the global COVID-19 outbreak.
An ELN commentary on the Iran crisis by ELN Policy Fellow Sahil Shah and Founder and Publisher of Bourse & Bazaar, Esfandyar Batmanghelidj, has been quoted in the Iranian.
Next week as the IAEA’s board of governors meet in Vienna member states of the IAEA have an opportunity to de-escalate rising international tension over Iran’s refusal to provide the IAEA information about its nuclear activities. Success may depend on the agency’s Board of Governors ability to transcend polarisation.