Russia Reform Monitor: No. 1971
A surge in military spending;
Accentuating the positive in Crimea
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South Asia Security Monitor: No. 367
China invests big in Pakistan;
Pakistan arrests 47 Indian fisherman;
Russia to build $2 billion pipeline in Pakistan;
Militants feel pressure in Pakistan;
$45 billion in Afghanistan aid unaccounted for;
Ghani visits Iran
China Reform Monitor: No. 1159
China eyeing new infrastructure projects in Nepal;
Beijing to triple investments in Iranian oil fields
Iran: Isolated No Longer
Less than a month after it was signed in Lausanne, Switzerland, the framework nuclear deal between Iran and the P5+1 powers is already beginning to pay dividends - for Iran, that is.
Even before the April 2 accord, the enforced isolation that brought Iran's ayatollahs to the nuclear negotiating table back in 2013 had begun to erode, progressively undermined by hungry investors eager to return to "business as usual" with the Islamic Republic. But since the framework deal was signed, the floodgates have opened in earnest.
Iran Democracy Monitor: No. 156
Israel in the crosshairs;
The IRGC and the nuclear deal;
Iran's new project: "
Ground Zero"
After Lausanne, new overtures from Russia;
...and China