Gareth Smyth has reported from the Middle East since 1992, including Iran, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon. He was chief Iran correspondent of the Financial Times 2003-07 when he was nominated by the FT in 2005 as foreign correspondent of the year in the British Press Awards.
In recent weeks, there has been a welter of claims that Iran is spending billions of dollars in military aid to its regional allies, with commentators...
Reports of political Islam's death are greatly exaggerated. In a recent article for the Inter Press Service, Washington-based journalist Barbara Slavin...