Friday, May 17, 2024

ANALYSIS: How Iranian Protesters Unmasked The Regime’s Old Game Of Divide And Rule’

By Elahe Boghrat In Iran, after decades of organized social segregation and the Islamic Republic's exclusion of the vast majority of Iranians in favor of a small minority of devotees, a nation has now risen...

Land of Insecurities and Abnormalities

By Elahe Boghrat There is much truth to the saying, “The simple act of trying to repress, forbid, or ban something makes it much more attractive and desirable.” This aphorism dates back to the story...

OPINION: Why Prince Reza Pahlavi Represents Hope for Many Young Iranians

By Elahe Boghrat   In February 1979, when the Islamic Revolution overthrew the monarchy in Iran, 18-year-old Crown Prince Reza, the heir to the Pahlavi throne, had finished high school and was undergoing military training as...

COMMENTARY: Women in the Islamic Republic Are Second-Class Citizens

By Azadeh Karimi and Elahe Boghrat The Iranian media have reported on the suspicious death of Zahra Navidpour, a 28-year-old woman whose body was discovered on January 6 at her mother’s home in the northwestern...