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Pezeshkian as President: What Might this Mean for Iran and India

Election for the presidency of the Islamic Republic in Iran has brought into limelight the unlikely figure of Masoud Pezeshkian, who beat the arch-conservative Saeed Jalili in the run-off held on 5th July 2024. Winning by a good nine percentage poin....

July 15, 2024 International Relations and Diplomacy , West Asia , Article , Ebrahim Raisi , Reformist bloc , Hijab laws , 2022 protests , Saeed Jalili

West Asia Roundup: May 2024

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India and Iran signed a Chabahar port management contract for a ten-year period which had been agreed to during PM Modi’s visit in 2016 but took time to formalize. This will ensure India’s access to Afghanistan and Cen....

June 19, 2024 Chabahar Port , Israel-Palestine Conflict , International Court of Justice , Sudan , Al Jazeera , West Asia Round Up , Kuwait , Ebrahim Raisi , Israeli settlers , International Criminal Court

Iran in the Wake of the Death of Ebrahim Raisi

Kingshuk Chatterjee Article

The death of Ebrahim Raisi, the incumbent President of Iran, in a tragic accident has lent to feverish speculation as to what could its repercussions be. The general consensus that is emerging seems to be that having made little original contributio....

May 27, 2024 International Relations and Diplomacy , West Asia , Article , IRGC , Ayatollah Khamenei , Ebrahim Raisi , Hossein Amir-Abdollahian , Mohammad Mokhber

Neighborhood News Digest- 24 April 2024

Afghanistan

OIC urges lift on Afghan women’s education, employment restrictions-The Khaama Press

The media center announced the meeting between Tariq Ali Bakheet, the special representative of the Organization of Islamic Coo....

April 24, 2024 VIF Neighbourhood News Digest , Pakistan , US , economy , Maldives , Iran , Sri Lanka , Afghanistan , Bhutan , Bangladesh , Thailand , Doha , OIC , IMF , Badakhshan , Human Rights , Ebrahim Raisi , Shehbaz Sharif , India-Out Campaign , Parliamentary elections 2024 , Political; Prisoners , Sustainable Tiger Financing

West Asia Roundup: July 2023

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Winds of rapprochement continue to blow over the region. President Erdogan paid visits to Riyadh, Abu Dhabi and Doha. He also expressed keenness to talk to Greece while agreeing to remove his hold from the Swedish entry to NATO. ....

August 16, 2023 Israel-Palestine Conflict , Greece , Jake Sullivan , West Asia Round Up , Kenya , Ebrahim Raisi , Recep Tayyip Erdogan , Uganda

West Asia Roundup: June 2023

Prime Minister’s Visit to Egypt

On his way back from a highly successful visit to USA, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was on a State visit to Egypt on 25 January at the invitation of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in Cairo. Both....

July 21, 2023 Syria , Narendra Modi , West Asia Round Up , Ebrahim Raisi , Mahmoud Abbas , Abdel Fattah Al Sisi , Quran burning

Recent Developments in Iran

Amb Anil Trigunayat, Distinguished Fellow, VIF

Join Amb. Anil Trigunayat and Hirak Jyoti Das discuss the recent political developments in Iran and evaluate it's implications on regional security and India's West Asia Policy.....

July 17, 2021 International Relations and Diplomacy , West Asia , JCPOA , India-Iran relations , Podcast , Ebrahim Raisi , Persian Gulf

West Asia – Review- June, 2021

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As the US decided to withdraw some of its defence equipment like Patriot missile batteries from Saudi Arabia and some other countries, it conducted Falcon Claws 4 joint exercises with Saudi land forces. It also retaliated a....

July 12, 2021 West Asia Round Up , Ebrahim Raisi , Naftali Bennet , Isaac Herzog , Peace Talks in Sudan , Qatar-Saudi Arabia Ties

The Raisi Presidency in Iran and its Implications

Kingshuk Chatterjee Article

It is much too early to make out straight away what the well-predicted election of Ebrahim Raisi, the incumbent Chief of Iranian Judiciary, to the Presidency of Islamic Republic of Iran is likely to bode for Iran and the world. Since his election to....

July 05, 2021 International Relations and Diplomacy , Article , JCPOA , USA , New Delhi , IRGC , Ebrahim Raisi , Khamenei , resistance economy

Iran’s Presidential Elections

Amb D P Srivastava, Distinguished Fellow, VIF Commentary

The Presidential election in Iran has resulted in Mr. Ebrahim Raisi’s victory by 62 percent of the votes. The election coincided with the talks in Vienna to revive the nuclear deal. Both the events came at a time when the situation in Afghanistan ....

June 28, 2021 International Relations and Diplomacy , Commentary , Chabahar Port , Taliban , Nuclear Deal , Hazaras , Ebrahim Raisi , Iran elections