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IRAN: Western focus on missile tech will intensify
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-ES282281
ISSN: 2633-304X
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In the past 12 months, Bahrain, Egypt, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have become dialogue partners of the SCO, while Iran has become a full member.
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB281934
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SCO membership will be Tehran’s first experience of a regional defence-security organisation since it withdrew from the Central Treaty Organization (CENTO) in 1979. Iran’s defence…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB281081
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The demonstrations were triggered by Assad’s mid-August announcement of big fuel price increases, only partly mitigated by rises in salaries and pensions. However, they have been…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB281840
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Relations between Azerbaijan and Iran have tended to oscillate between distrust and outright animosity. However, recent events and official statements signal that the two sides…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB280683
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Iran perceives that it has become isolated in the South Caucasus, as a result of changing geopolitical relations over the past three years. Israel has increased its presence…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB279596
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US sanctions have been a blunt instrument, but the threat of re-escalation comes at a moment of vulnerability for Venezuela. The US intervention could have counterproductive…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB273028
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Sanctions have constrained east-west transit through Russia and revived its interest in north-south connections to Gulf ports and India. Moscow and Tehran, each keen to circumvent…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB274352
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In 2019, the US Department of Justice (DoJ) charged Halkbank with having operated a scheme to evade US sanctions in 2012-13 by using the receipts of Iranian oil sales to buy gold…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB276251
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Ankara is also revising its Gas Market Law 4646, with the aim of becoming a gas transit, trading and pricing hub. The law will make it easier for private-sector companies to…