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: Iran Lacks Coherent Strategy to Fight Pandemic; Employees at Risk
By Roshanak Astaraki
It has been 42 days since the first cases of the COVID-19 emerged in Tehran and the holy city of Qom. Yet despite the creation of the National Headquarters for Fighting Coronavirus,...
OPINION: Iranian Women’s Unrelenting Battle Against Oppression
By Azadeh Karimi
For the past 40 years, the Islamic Republic Regime’s educational system and propaganda machine have been brainwashing and indoctrinating generations of young Iranians by planting distorted ethical and moral values and a...
OPINION: Iran Uses Global Film Festivals as an Ideological Tool
By Reza Parchizadeh
Asghar Farhadi’s “Everybody Knows,” starring Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz, opened the 2018 Cannes Film Festival. While Farhadi didn’t win any prizes this year, fellow Iranian director Jafar Panahi received the Best...
OPINION: Why U.S. Sanctions Won’t Change Iran’s Foreign Policy
By Maysam Behravesh
Oct 8 (Reuters) - The messages from Tehran are stark. On October 1, Iranian forces fired six missiles at Islamic State positions in eastern Syria. The weapons landed within three miles of...
OPINION: Revolutions Are Unfolding in Iran, Iraq, and Lebanon
By Abdulrahman Al-Rashed, Asharq Al-Awasat Newspaper
While recent civil unrests in Iran, Iraq, and Lebanon were initially triggered by the dire economic conditions in these countries and people’s desire to free themselves from the grips...
OPINION: Iranian Women and the Removal of the Veil
By Roshanak Astaraki
It has been 88 years since a law was passed in Iran authorizing the removal of the hijab (known as the kashf-e hijab). Nearly nine decades later, Iranian women are mounting a...
OPINION: IRGC’s Massive Control Over Iranian Politics and Economy
By Hamed Mohammadi
It has been nine years since the U.S. military special forces, on orders from former President Barack Obama, carried out an operation in Abbottabad, Pakistan, that killed Osama bin Laden, the founder...
OPINION: Iranian Baha’is Deprived of Electing International Leadership
By Dr. Tahirih Danesh
Dr. Danesh is executive director of the Persia Educational Foundation, based in London, and a visiting lecturer in human rights law at the University of Roehampton in the U.K. The views...
OPINION: How Can 80 Million Iranians Tolerate This Regime?
By Farid Khalifi
https://youtu.be/4esfyCpcSJ0
Any Iranian whom the Islamic Republic has not killed to date is owed a “normal life” by the state, the clerics, and Islamists, for every second he or she has lived under...
