Gareth Smyth

Gareth Smyth has covered Middle Eastern affairs for 20 years and was chief correspondent for The Financial Times in Iran.

New budget won’t fix Iran’s economic, social or political problems
2019-12-22
Seeking a new approach to Gulf security
2019-11-17
Iranian regime watching Lebanon protests with wariness
2019-10-28
New phase of cat-and-mouse tussle between US, Iran begins
2019-04-30
The decision by the Trump administration to end eight waivers to buyers of…
Lebanon’s divisions prolong suffering of Syrian refugees
2019-04-07
Despite Assad’s welcome, Iran can be of little help to Damascus
2019-03-05
Iran’s shadowy game with oil exports
2018-12-16
Iran’s oil manoeuvres cannot stop the economy from shrinking
2018-11-18
Studying chess from the Abbasid era to Kuwait’s al-Sabah Collection
2018-09-04
Will Iran be hit hard by new US sanctions? It remains to be seen
2018-07-22
Moustaches and magical realism in Ba’athist Syria
2018-06-14
Iran’s ‘hybrid nationalism’ has implications for Iranian politics
2018-05-30
The politics of gesture from Syria to Iran
2018-05-09
By forestalling serious attempts to grapple with challenges, the politics of…