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Farhang Jahanpour

Farhang Jahanpour is a former professor and dean of the Faculty of Languages at the University of Isfahan. A British national of Iranian origins, he is a part-time tutor in the Department of Continuing Education at the University of Oxford. Follow him on Twitter at @FJShirazi

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Iran
Forty Years Later, US and Iran still Haunted by Embassy Hostage Crisis

Forty Years Later, US and Iran still Haunted by Embassy Hostage Crisis

Farhang Jahanpour

(Informed Comment) – The 4th November 2019 marks the 40th anniversary of the Iran Hostage Crisis that has dominated and poisoned Iran-US relations ever since. The event refers to the seizure of a number of US diplomats and other employees in the United States Embassy in Tehran by the so-called “Muslim Students Following the Imam’s […]

European Union
Britain’s Trump: The Further Failure of Right Wing Populism

Britain’s Trump: The Further Failure of Right Wing Populism

Farhang Jahanpour

(Informed Comment) – After only six weeks in office, Johnson’s grand plan to leave the European Union with or without a deal by 31 October has collapsed like a pack of cards and, instead, he may have the shortest term as prime minister in British history. So, unlike the United States, the cause of right […]

Iran
After Trump’s Breach, Iran said it Would Withdraw from Some of the Nuclear Deal: It Hasn’t

After Trump’s Breach, Iran said it Would Withdraw from Some of the Nuclear Deal: It Hasn’t

Farhang Jahanpour

(Informed Comment) – In early May, on the anniversary of US withdrawal from the JCPOA, Iran announced that in view of US violations of the nuclear agreement and crippling sanctions that have been imposed on Iran preventing her from exporting the bulk of her oil, if European powers who were also signatories to the deal […]

Iran
How Two-Faced Trump has targeted Iran for Sanctions & War while Tweeting “Negotiations”

How Two-Faced Trump has targeted Iran for Sanctions & War while Tweeting “Negotiations”

Farhang Jahanpour

(Informed Comment) – On May 24, 2018, the Department of Defense organised a Briefing on Iran with the participation of Katie Wheelbarger, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, and Vice Adm. Michael Gilday, Director of the Joint Staff. The Briefing was aimed at providing some information about the despatch of U.S. […]

Iran
Why Pompeo’s Iran speech was So Outrageous

Why Pompeo’s Iran speech was So Outrageous

Farhang Jahanpour

Mike Pompeo’s declaration of war on Iran makes the world less safe

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