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Fatemeh Aman

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Fatemeh Aman is a nonresident fellow in the Atlantic Council’s South Asia Center. Twitter @FatemehAman.

Protests have brought Iran’s ethnic minorities &...

Most Iranians once gave little thought to the peripheral ethnic minority areas of their country, but that has changed since the killing of Mahsa Amini

Will Iran turn to al-Qaeda to combat...

Unregistered Afghan refugees have been one of Iran's most significant challenges since the Taliban takeover. There are no migrant camps in Iran like those in other countries, such as the Syrian camps in Turkey.

Why Iran is hesitant to help the...

Fatemah Awan, a non-resident senior fellow at the Middle East Institute argues as the Taliban secured control of the border, many of those who entered Iran have been detained and returned to Afghanistan so why Iran is not willing to help the Afghan refugees?

How do Russia, Pakistan, China, Iran and...

The Pentagon has talked about establishing some sort of military base in the region to monitor terrorist activity within Afghanistan. It says this presence...

Iran’s fuel smuggling paranoia in the Baluchistan...

On February 22, Iranian military forces opened fire on a group of Baluch fuel carriers who were protesting against the government for blocking their...

Iran-Taliban growing ties: What’s different this time?

It could not have been a more striking picture: a Taliban delegation visiting Tehran in late January and being received by senior Iranian officials. They...

Persian Gulf: Confronting environmental mismanagement

When it comes to the Persian Gulf, saving the environment might seem like it would be the last item on the to-do lists of...

Trump’s gamble on Iran will prove advantageous...

India has found itself on the losing end of the Trump administration’s gamble in Asia and its “maximum pressure” policy toward Iran. In some...