Iran Discovers a Huge Deposit of Lithium
The Iranians have stumbled upon what every Green dreams of…a massive store of lithium ore. If the numbers prove true, it would be the 2nd largest deposit ever discovered. But is it too good [...]
Update: Iranian Protests Continue
By Michael N. Nayebi-Oskoui I think an update will be helpful as Iran’s current spate of protests continue into their third month. I would like to state at the beginning of this update that as a [...]
Iranian Drones and Russian Desperation
Russia’s reliance on Iran for armed drones and missiles is a resounding fall from grace for the one-time defense manufacturing rival to the United States. And a telling indicator of not [...]
Iran Grapples With Protests…Again
Iran is in the midst of one of the most serious rounds of public unrest since November 2019, when a hike in fuel prices sent potentially hundreds of thousands of Iranians out into the streets. [...]
This Is How the World Ends, Part I
by Peter Zeihan, Melissa Taylor, and Michael N. Nayebi-Oskoui I like to say that I sell context. It’s all about how seemingly disparate things like age structures and trade patterns and [...]
Revisiting Iran
By Peter Zeihan and Michael N. Nayebi-Oskoui The White House has been strongly hinting for two weeks that President Trump is unlikely to “re-certify” the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action [...]
The Next Iraq War
Trouble is (again) brewing in Iraq. The Middle East is a wild and wacky place. The core issue is geographic: basic resources – especially water – are in short supply and resource competition [...]
Iran Sanctions Lifted
On Jan 17 the IAEA gave the green-light to the Iranian nuclear industry – indicating that Tehran was implementing the U.S.-Iranian nuclear deal in both the spirit and letter. With that stamp of [...]
Saudi and Iranian Tensions Surface
It has been quite the week-end in the Middle East, and things are just getting started. On Jan 2nd, Saudi Arabia executed 47 Shia dissidents including cleric Nimr al-Nimr. Rhetoric from [...]
