Clément Therme

D. in international history from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Iheid) in Geneva.

Iran Rethinks its Foreign Policy Clément Therme · September 2021 As its new president, Ebrahim Raisi takes office, Iran has begun to question the guidelines of its foreign policy, especially in regard to its relations with its Arab neighbours. It is a matter of striking a balance between the defence of national interests and the regime’s radical ideology. (…)
The Iranian View of Hiroshima: Beyond Anti-US Ideology? Banafsheh Keynoushmulti , Clément Therme · August 2020 Seventy-five years after 1945, the Islamic Republic of Iran is instrumentalizing the memory of the United States dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Tehran is drawing a tragic parallel between then-Japanese victims and Iranian victims of Iraqi chemical weapons. While Japan is not (…)
Iraq Torn Between Iran and Saudi Arabia Clément Therme , Shifaa Alsairafi · July 2019 Harassed by the United States to respect the embargo against Iran, Iraq is an essential pawn in the Iranian-Saudi competition for regional leadership. But beeing in a process of reconstruction, it can in no way put an end to its cooperation with the Islamic Republic and has everything to gain (…)
How will Iran Rise to the Challenge of America’s Escalation? Clément Therme · August 2018 From August 7, foreign companies active in Iran must comply with new US sanctions concerning Iran. Several European companies, including PSA and Total, have already announced their withdrawal from the country. Faced with US economic pressures, an internal economic crisis, the fall of its (…)