Saturday, March 7, 2026

Nuclear deal opens up business opportunities for Iran and Georgia

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Mohammad Reza Noruzi is PhD in Public Policy and Assistant Professor at Tarbiat Modarres University, Tehran, and a policy adviser for the private sector in Iran.

After a landmark deal with the P5+1 group in Vienna, a window to the world will open up for Iran. Iranians are set to start a new era of cooperation with important global businesses in many fields.

This is bound to affect many of Iran’s economic sectors positively,

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Georgia’s Magna Carta

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Davit Usupashvili is Speaker of the Georgian Parliament.

Shakespeare would no doubt concur that democracy has an element of drama. In this drama, a constitution may be likened to a play, minus the actors. Setting the scene, a constitution lays out the notion of a state, like the preamble of a play. Articulating the script,

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Sleazy 90s transition – Paul Manning on "Shevardnadze Era" in Georgia

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Khevsur girls – girls in the village of Khakhmati, Khevsureti in 2002 (Paul Manning)

TBILISI, DFWatch–When I heard Paul Manning, an anthropologist from Trent University (Canada) is visiting Tbilisi, I knew I had to meet him. Not only because of his papers on  toasts and supra culture, cartoons during the Rose Revolution, notion of terror in Pankisi,

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