Ladan Salami

Iranian foreign policy

Rouhani’s Nuclear Ambitions

Hassan Rouhani’s surprise victory in the June 14 Iranian presidential elections generated a wave of optimism that has reverberated far outside Iran’s borders. Very similar to the election of Barak Obama in the United States after the George W. Bush years, Rouhani was welcomed because he is widely se

In Conversation with the US State Department’s Persian-Language Spokesman

Washington, Asharq Al-Awsat—Against the backdrop of the Russian–US agreement on the decommissioning of Syria’s chemical weapons stockpile, Asharq Al-Awsat spoke with the US State Department’s Persian-language spokesman, Alan Eyre, about the deal, what will happen if Bashar Al-Assad fails