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Iran
Who Will Be Iran’s Next Parliament Speaker?
By Rohollah Faghihi
Mohammad Reza Aref and Ali Larijani are in the running for Iran's parliamentary speakership.
Russia Supplied S-300 Air Defense Battalion to Iran
By Franz-Stefan Gady
The Kremlin expects the rest of the air defense systems to be supplied by the end of 2016.
Iran Denies Testing Precision-Guided Ballistic Missile
By Franz-Stefan Gady
Iran’s defense minister disputes that a test-launch of a precision-guided missile with a 2,000 kilometer range occurred.
Iran Test-Fires Precision-Guided Ballistic Missile
By Franz-Stefan Gady
The ballistic missile test occurred in late April, according to a senior officer of in the Iranian military.
Iran Reveals New Main Battle Tank
By Franz-Stefan Gady
Iran's newest armored fighting vehicles fuses U.S. with Chinese tanks designs.
Kazakhstan to Attend the Doha Oil Summit
By Catherine Putz
At least Astana will be in the room where it happens.
Nazarbayev Starts Off Week of Travel in Iran
By Catherine Putz
He’ll head on to Istanbul and Uzbekistan later in the week.
Iran Confirms Delivery of First Russian S-300 Air Defense System
By Franz-Stefan Gady
Sources in Moscow and Tehran confirmed that the first batch of S-300 missile systems arrived in Iran.
Russia Will Ship S-300 Missile Systems to Iran Within Days
By Franz-Stefan Gady
A Russian diplomat expects the first S-300 delivery to take place in the coming days.
Kazakhstan Among the Oil Giants
By Catherine Putz
Astana’s oversized dependence on oil has put the country’s economy at the whims of a merciless global oil market.
Discovering Cyrus the Great's Secrets in Modern Iran
By Akhilesh Pillalamarri
2,500 years after his death, Cyrus the Great's tomb in Iran remains a site of mystery and wonder.
Don't Count on Iran's February 2016 Elections Making History Just Yet
By Ankit Panda
Iran's political institutions will make a reformist triumph an unlikely outcome of the elections.