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Within the past two months, Iranian editors have been cutting the number of pages and newspapers they publish — at least one daily has closed shop entirely. This is not due to government censorship or a sudden drop-off in readership: there is simply not enough newsprint to go around.

International Affairs
Armenia: the revolution continues
Matteo Tacconi 14 June 2018

Following massive street protests in April against then premier Serzh Sarksyan, leader of the old regime, a general strike on May 2nd and then the election of Nikol Pashinyan, leader of the democratic movement as head of the government a week later, the Armenian revolution has vanished from daily headlines.
International Affairs
Pompeo’s Demands On Iran At Odds With Reality
Seyed Hossein Mousavian 8 June 2018

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
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.
International Affairs
Optimism Reigns Over Arab Renaissance Amman Conference
Mohammed Hashas 3 May 2018

A report by Mohammed Hashas on the conference “Arab Renaissance: Renewing the Civilizational Message” organized in Amman, Jordan, on 25-26 April 2018, in the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Arab Renaissance Foundation for Democracy and Development (ARDD).
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.