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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo laid out a list of demands on Iran in a speech threatening to “crush” the country on Monday. His bellicose words come weeks after President Donald Trump pulled the United States out of the Iran nuclear deal and are nothing short of an ultimatum demanding Iran’s total surrender to U.S. wishes.

International Affairs, Society
Drought worse than sanctions
Virginia Pietromarchi 8 June 2018

“A drought is much more effective than sanctions” says Dr. Kaveh Madani, former deputy head of Iran’s environmental department and researcher at London Imperial College.
International Affairs
Iran: The risk of an economic backlash. Interview with Saaed Leylaz
Marina Forti 7 June 2018

“Iran will continue to respect the agreement regarding its nuclear programme even if the United States has decided to withdraw and for as long as the other signatories remain committed, with Iranian interests guaranteed.”
International Affairs
Why Europe has to defend the nuclear deal
Marina Forti interviews Nathalie Tocci 7 June 2018

Europeans have a strategic interest in saving the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the July 2015 agreement on the Iranian nuclear programme, even after the US president’s decision to unilaterally abandon it.
International Affairs
Nuclear deal without US: A Gift to Russia and the Asian Powers
Eleonora Ardemagni 7 June 2018

The United States’ unilateral withdrawal from the Iranian nuclear deal (also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, JCPOA) has a range of important implications, further consolidating the international system’s pivot to the East.
International Affairs
What’s next for Iran nuclear deal?
Marina Forti 9 May 2018

A little over a year after Donald Trump’s ascent to the presidency of the United States of America, relations between Washington and Tehran have reverted to the tense, mistrustful and antagonistic patterns of the past.
Religion
Non-believers: atheism in the crosshairs of Egyptian legislators
Federica Zoja 2 May 2018

The Arab spring uprising opened the way to public debates inconceivable in North African countries before 2011. Yet, the reaction of the Cairo authorities has been very hostile to “free thinkers”, including citizens who eschew religion.
Human Rights, International Affairs
Respect for diversity key to Syrian Peace
Luca Steinmann 27 April 2018

Maria Saadeh is a former independent member of the Syrian parliament (2012–2016). Nowadays she travels all over the world to represent Syrian civil society at public conferences. While in Milan, ResetDOC had the chance to interview her to find out more about her role as an observer and to get her take on the prospects for peace.
International Affairs
Egypt’s election: a plebiscite with a new puppet
Giovanna Vittori 23 March 2018

There is no doubt that seven years after the Egyptian revolution, elections are over and the plebiscite is back.
International Affairs
Iraq 15 years later: from Iraqi Freedom to the coming parliamentary election
Ilaria Romano 20 March 2018

On 20 March 2003 the invasion of Iraq, led by United States to overthrow Saddam Hussein’s Regime began.