Ali Alfoneh

Ali Alfoneh is a non-resident senior fellow at Rafik Hariri Centre for the Middle East at the Atlantic Council.

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Iranian President Hassan Rohani walks past the media at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit, on June 10. (AP)
The atomic spectre returns to haunt Iran
June 16, 2018
Iran will watch Trump-Kim summit more closely than anyone
June 09, 2018
(L-R) EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas and British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, in Brussels. (AP)
Tehran plays the Yemen card
June 02, 2018
Blood and thunder. Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks in Tehran. (AFP)
Iran doesn’t really care about Muslims if they’re in China or Russia
May 26, 2018
Iranian navy troops march in a parade outside Tehran. (AP)
Can Trump’s Iran policy lead to regime change in Tehran?
May 26, 2018
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif arrives for a meeting at the Europa building in Brussels, on May 15. (AP)
Iranian foreign minister’s nuclear diplomacy faces limits
May 19, 2018
An Iraqi woman shows her ink-stained index finger before a national flag after having cast her vote in the parliamentary election in Baghdad, on May 12. (AFP)
Tehran alarmed by Iraqi nationalism
May 19, 2018
Iranian lawmakers burn two pieces of papers representing the US flag and the nuclear deal as they chant anti-American slogans at the parliament in Tehran, on May 9. (AP)
Tehran divided in its response to Trump
May 09, 2018
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei stands as army air force and air defence staff salute in Tehran. (AP)
Iran’s IRGC prefers low-intensity conflict with Israel to all-out war
May 05, 2018
Conventional force. Iranian soldiers march during a parade on the occasion of the country’s annual army day, on April 18. (AFP)
Iran: One country, two armies
April 28, 2018
French President Emmanuel Macron addressees a joint meeting of Congress inside the House chamber; on April 25. (AFP)
Will Macron’s visit to Washington prolong the life of the Iran deal by another day?
April 28, 2018
A 2016 file picture shows US’s J’den Michael Tbory Cox (L) wrestling with Iran’s Alireza Mohammad Karimi Mashiani at the Carioca Arena 2 in Rio de Janeiro. (AFP)
Iranian wrestlers struggle against ideology
April 21, 2018
Iranian Defence Minister Amir Hatami (C) attending a meeting with Iraqi, Russian and Syrian officials in Baghdad, on April 19. (Iranian Defence Ministry)
Tehran’s mission accomplished!
April 21, 2018
Challenging mission. Abdollah Haji Sadeghi, representative of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). (IRNA)
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards get new political commissar but may resist civilian control
April 14, 2018
A Shia fighter clashes with members of the Sunni-dominated Free Syrian Army in the town of Hatita in the countryside of Damascus. (AP)
Is Trump about to let Iran ‘take care’ of Syria?
April 07, 2018
Calculated handshake. Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) shakes hands with Iranian President Hassan Rohani prior to their meeting in Sochi, last November. (AFP)
Facing isolation Iran turns to Russia, China
March 31, 2018
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei delivers a speech in Mashad, on March 21. (Reuters)
The false notes of Khamenei’s New Year’s address
March 24, 2018
Former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (L) and former Iranian Vice-President Hamid Baghaei in Tehran, last April. (AFP)
Ahmadinejad, Iran’s Robin Hood who never gave to the poor
March 24, 2018
Kuwaiti Shia men gather before the Iranian Embassy in Kuwait City to call for the release of Shia cleric Hossein Shirazi, on March 7. (AFP)
Why Shia clerics challenge Iran’s Shia clerical regime
March 17, 2018
Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (R) meets with French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian in Tehran, on March 5. (AFP)
Time for an elegy for the Iranian nuclear deal?
March 10, 2018