This report presents an overview of Iran’s national agricultural R&D system in terms of institutional developments and recent trends in human and financial resources based on data collected under the Agricultural Science and Technology Indicators (ASTI) initiative. Source: International Food Policy Research Institute Agricultural Extension, Education and Research Organization Click here to read more.Read More

The romance of the Middle East, once called the Near East, has long been a source of fascination to me. My first memories are of a children’s version of The Arabian Nights published in the early 1900s by Blackie and Co. 1 It had evocative illustrations by Helen Stratton, some including architectural allegories. The visual...Read More

Iran and Saudi Arabia have long been engaged in heated rivalry and conflict in the Middle East. These two regional powers are both major oil-exporting countries; in major foreign policy issues, therefore, oil is used as an important tool to pursue goals. Iran and Saudi Arabia have a long history of differences on oil policies,...Read More

This paper is an empirical attempt to investigate bilateral trade flow between Iran and Russia. To this end, we used statistical analyses on macroeconomic series over the period of 1991-2017. Results revealed that there is a significant statistical difference in terms of exports between Iran and Russia, and that there has always been a buyer-seller...Read More