Iran

The crisis between the West and Iran on the latter’s alleged nuclear weapon program has been escalating. The UN nuclear watchdog – the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) – has indeed confirmed that Iran “has started the production of…

For many years, the security environment of Israel was seen through a specific prism: the “radical axis” of Iran, Syria, Hezbollah and Hamas was perceived as a threat to Israel, while cooperation with the “moderate axis” led by Egypt and…

Shortly after the Egyptian revolution had successfully ousted President Hosni Mubarak, Iran sent two naval ships through the Suez Canal en route to Syria – the first such move since the Iranian revolution in 1979. According to leaders in…

Fin dalla Rivoluzione del 1979, molti osservatori occidentali hanno costruito ed alimentato il mito di uno Stato iraniano monolitico e verticista, controllato al suo vertice da una figura – e una soltanto – al tempo stesso politica e…

My sister in West Africa asked if I could help her purchase a video game subscription for her son’s birthday by using her credit card. The game company could detect that she was using a computer in Africa and wouldn’t process an American…