OPINION: Ayatollah Jazayeri Comes to Britain to Spread Iran’s Islamic Revolution
By Potkin Azarmehr
Speculation mounted in Iran on February 11, when Ayatollah Jazayeri, the Friday Prayer leader for Ahvaz in Iran’s southwestern oil-rich province of Khuzestan, was not seen in the official rally to mark the...
OPINION: The West Must Champion Iranians’ Struggle for Democracy
By S.D. Jabbari
(S.D. Jabbari is an international security analyst and an advocate for secular democracy in Iran. He serves on the Executive Committee of the Institute for Voices of Liberty (iVOL). He also advises...
OPINION: Iranians Want Change, But What Direction Will the Country Take?
By Elahe Boghrat
Many Iranians believed that their country would enter a new era of reconstruction after the turbulent events of the 1979 Islamic Revolution and an eight-year war with Iraq (1980-88) that cost so...
OPINION: Discussions About A New Iran Must Include Ethnic Minorities
By Monireh Shirani
My name is Monireh Shirani. I am a human rights activist who has, for decades, worked on the issues of Balochistan . We have tried to fill the information gap. We have...
OPINION: Rushdie Attack Recalls the Deadly Fatwas Carried Out in Iran
This piece was submitted to Kayhan Life by Lawdan Bazargan: a former political prisoner, human rights advocate, and relative of victims of the 1988 massacre of political prisoners in Iran. The views expressed...
OPINION: Iran’s Regular Army Should Side With the People, Rescue the Nation
By Hamed Mohammadi
More than three weeks have passed since the start of military operations against the Islamic Republic of Iran. And now, United State forces from the 82nd Airborne Division are on their way...
OPINION: Let Iranians Decide Their Own Future Through the Ballot Box
By Bijan R. Kian and Amir Reza Oveissi
The Iranian people have already paid an enormous price -- in blood, in hardship, and in lost futures -- for their freedom. That sacrifice now demands a...
OPINION: Iranian Trade Unionist Narges Mansouri Delivers Nowruz Message
I extend my congratulations to everyone, especially the great nation of Iran, on the occasion of the ancient feast of Nowruz and the regeneration of the planet Earth.
It is a matter of pride that...
OPINION – Iran: A Future Beyond Trump and Khamenei
By Mehrdad Khonsari
The introduction of the latest round of U.S. sanctions against Iran has for the time being played into the hands of the Iranian Supreme Leader and his followers who see the protection...
OPINION: Shahrokhi Uprising (Nojeh Coup), the Last Attempt?
By Babak Taghvaee
Just sixteen months after the withdrawal of the Pahlavi government, which came about as a result of the Islamic revolution in 1979, almost 500 members of the Iranian Army and Air Force...
