Drug Addiction Among Workers
January 26, 2017
By Rohshanak Asteraki
The widespread use of hard drugs among Iranian workers in various industries has prompted reluctant authorities to warn against the serious addiction epidemic plaguing the nation. In March 2015, the...
Deception & Corruption in Iran’s Defense Industries
January 22, 2017
By Babak Taghvaee
Independence and freedom have been the slogan and the stated goal of the Islamic Republic of Iran since the revolution of 1979. The Islamic regime claims to have achieved that...
Fierce Infighting Among the Ruling Elite
January 12, 2017
The forthcoming change in the White House and possible hardening of the U.S. stand vis-a-vis Iran have prompted intense debate among the anxious ruling elite in the Islamic republic. The Tehran regime...
Silent Cries of Activists Heard Around the World
January 10, 2017
Arash Sadeqi, a human rights activist, ended his hunger strike after seventy- one days on 3 January, 2017. Iranian authorities had temporarily released his wife, Golrokh Ebrahimi-Iraee, who had been sentenced to...
Women’s Day in Iran
January 09, 2017
In a highly controversial move on 7 January, 1936, Reza Shah, the founder of the Pahlavi dynasty, banned Islamic hijab and various kinds of head cover, including chador, veil, and headscarf. As contentious...
IRGC Commander Claims 200,000 Iran-backed Troops In Syria
December 30, 2016
By Ahmad Rafat
The deputy commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), Brigadier-General Hossein Salami, has said that Iran’s primary objective for providing logistical, operational, technical, and tactical assistance to the pro-government...
Al-Abadi to Decide if he is more of a US or Iran Ally
December 21, 2016
By Potkin Azarmehr
Colonel John L. Dorrian is the spokesman for the Combined Joint Task Force - Operation Inherent Resolve, U.S. Central Command, which is helping the Iraqi government take back Mosul...
An Open Letter by Iranian Dissidents to President-Elect Donald Trump
December 24, 2016
The Honorable Donald Trump
President-Elect of the United States of America
Dear Mr. President-Elect,
We would like to congratulate you on your victory in the Presidential election of the United States of America.
During the...
Sex Scandals and Corruption in the “Sacred” Regime
December 22, 2016
By Roshanak Asteraki
Five ministers in President Rouhani’s cabinet have been accused of illicit affairs with a female journalist. In comments posted on his Telegram channel last week, Hossein Allahkaram, head of Tehran’s...
Government at Odds with IRGC
December 19, 2016
The Iranian Privatization Organization (IPO) recently cancelled a contract with Mobin Trust Consortium which had bought 50 percent plus one shares of Telecommunication Company of Iran (TCI) for $2.5 bn in 2009....
