Sunday, May 3, 2026

OPINION: The World Must Consider Reza Pahlavi As Iran’s Main Opposition Leader

By Mahya Ostovar and Navid Sahraei Reza Pahlavi is an unlikely political figure for today’s Iran. His public legitimacy is anchored in a past that most Iranians, especially those driving the current uprising, have never...

Kayhan Celebrates 75th Anniversary

By Abdolrahman Faramarzi Translated from the original, which appeared in the first issue of Kayhan The following is an excerpt from an editorial which originally appeared in the first issue of Kayhan 75 years ago. It...

OPINION: What Iran Nuclear Deal Reveals About Talking to Theocrats

By Kambiz Zare The latest rounds of negotiations on Iran’s nuclear program highlight a fundamental reality: in politics—as in war and in dealmaking—success often depends on timing and on bold, decisive action. Recognizing the right...
Hossein Salami, IRGC commander

OPINION: What Are IRGC’s Plans for Iran?

By Majid Mohammadi If the Islamic Republic’s domestic and foreign policies remain unchanged, we will witness three developments in Iran in the coming year: The Majlis (Iranian Parliament), which is now controlled by Islamist hardliners,...

OPINION: 28 Mordad, the Myth That Haunts Iran

By Amir Taheri When writing of non-Western societies in the past century or so, many Western European and North American historians and chroniclers adopt one of two attitudes. The first attitude could be described as “the...

OPINION: We Must Support Iran’s Political Prisoners,  Save Them From Execution 

By Fahimeh Robiolle Every morning, we receive news of the executions of individuals – named or anonymous -- in the prisons of the Islamic Republic. Each execution is associated with a specific prison: Ahvaz, Evin,...

OPINION: Time for Talks to End U.S.-Iran Stalemate?

By Mehrdad Khonsari In the current standoff between Iran and the U.S., a U.S. president who shows no sign of being trigger-happy is pitted against a defiant Iranian government that refuses to capitulate. With any...

OPINION: Iran’s Incompetence in Forged Passports

By Potkin Azarmehr An Iranian couple entered Argentina on March 12 with forged Israeli passports. According to Western media reports in March both passports were amateurishly forged with several rudimentary blunders which included spelling mistakes, both in...

OPINION: How an ‘Iranian Hulk’ Turned Out to Be a Paper Tiger

By Potkin Azarmehr It all started six years ago, with a few pictures showing off his massive bulk on Instagram. The photos quickly went viral, and Sajad Gharibi, born in 1991 in Iran’s oil-rich province...

OPINION: The Islamic Republic Regime’s Desperate Battle for Survival

By Hamed Mohammadi The former head of the Supreme Court of Iran, the late Ayatollah Seyyed Mohammad Hossein Beheshti (1928-1981), delivered a speech at Tehran University on Oct. 26, 1979, in which he said: “Iranians...