Ali Alfoneh

Ali Alfoneh is a Visiting Scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington.

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US national security adviser John Bolton (L) speaks to Turkish presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin (R) following their meeting in Ankara, January 8. (AFP)
Is Trump’s America a force for good in the Middle East?
January 12, 2019
A voice for change. Reza Pahlavi, the exiled son of Iran’s last shah before the 1979 Islamic Revolution. (AP)
What is Reza Pahlavi, prince of Iran, up to?
January 12, 2019
Hanging by a thread. A cleric holds a poster showing a portrait of the late founder of the Islamic Republic Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in Tehran. (AP)
Malodour of decay? Islamic Republic at 40
January 05, 2019
Iranian President Hassan Rohani speaks during a public gathering in the northern city of Shahroud, December 4. (Iranian Presidency)
Rohani tells EU: If we go down, we will drag you with us!
December 15, 2018
An elderly man holds a newspaper as he walks on a sidewalk in Tehran. (Reuters)
Ageing Iran is a bit like a Greek tragedy
December 08, 2018
Torch bearer of division. (L-R) Iranian President Hassan Rohani speaks as former President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai and Deputy Chief of Hezbollah Sheikh Naim Qassem listen during the 32nd annual Islamic Unity Conference in Tehran, November 24. (Iranian Presidency)
‘Islamic Unity’ conference in Tehran was neither Islamic nor seeking unity
December 01, 2018
Iranian President Hassan Rohani (R) speaks during a joint news conference with his Iraqi counterpart Barham Salih at the Saadabad Palace in Tehran, on November 17. (Iranian Presidency)
Baghdad torn between Tehran’s pressures and US sanctions
November 24, 2018
Anticipating trouble. An Iranian police vehicle is seen parked outside a currency exchange shop in Tehran. (AFP)
Iran is in survival mode. Here’s how we know
November 17, 2018
A Pakistani border security official (R) and an Iranian border official meet at Zero Point in the Pakistan-Iran border town of Taftan, on October 16. (AFP)
Tehran’s neglect has bred trouble in Iran’s periphery
November 10, 2018
A Danish policeman stands guard outside a building in Copenhagen. (AFP)
Tehran’s terror reaches the shores of Denmark
November 03, 2018
New IRGC-KACB chief Saeed Mohammad (L), outgoing IRGC-KACB chief Brigadier-General Ebadollah Abdollahi (C) and IRGC commander Major-General Mohammad Ali Jafari. (Tasnim)
Generational change within IRGC adds to tensions
October 20, 2018
The conference room of the Zahra Centre, the headquarters of a Shia association in northern France, after it was raided by 200 policemen, on October 2. (AFP)
Iranian terror plots send a message to opposition abroad
October 13, 2018
Seeking solace. Iranians walk past items being sold for Noruz, a Zoroastrian tradition, at Sadeqyeh Square in Tehran. (AFP)
Iranians turning away from religious orthodoxy
October 06, 2018
A prelude to a new course. A soldier runs past injured comrades lying on the ground at the scene of an attack on a military parade in Ahvaz, on September 22. (AFP)
Tehran regime taking advantage of Ahvaz attack
September 29, 2018
Iranian mourners hold portraits of a young member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) who was killed in Syria. (AFP)
Not a scream nor a whimper from Tehran as Israel deals blows
September 22, 2018
Copies of “Fear: Trump in the White House” by Bob Woodward on display at Book Passage in Corte Madera in California. (AFP)
Woodward tells story of Trump’s policymaking and sources of influence on Iran
September 22, 2018
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi during a session of the Iraqi parliament in Baghdad, on September 3. (Reuters)
In Iraq, Tehran plays with fire
September 15, 2018
A wounded Iranian Kurdish Peshmerga member of the Iranian Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP-I) walks after a rocket attack in Koysinjaq, on September 8. (AFP)
Missiles and executions mark Iran’s escalation of conflict with Kurds
September 15, 2018
Leader of the Shia militia group Asaib Ahl al-Haq Qais al-Khazali (C) speaks to his followers in Baghdad, last May 7. (AP)
Does it matter that Washington outed Tehran’s agent in Iraq?
September 08, 2018
A woman walks past a beggar in Tehran. (AFP)
Iranian oligarchs bask in wealth while others suffer
September 01, 2018