OPINION: Child Executions In Iran – Rule Of Law Or Reign Of Terror?
By Natasha Phillips
In February of this year the United Nations confirmed a grim truth: Iran was sentencing more children to death than any other country in the world.
Far from being an anomaly, the...
OPINION: The Supreme Leader of Iran’s Network of Influence in the UK
By Potkin Azarmehr
This week, Richard Ratcliffe, the husband of the jailed British-Iranian dual national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, has gone on hunger strike in an attempt to persuade the UK foreign secretary to do more to...
OPINION: Why Will Iran Not Tell the Truth About Ukrainian Plane Crash?
By Hamed Mohammadi
On Jul. 24, the Bureau of Enquiry and Analysis for Civil Aviation Safety (BEA) concluded its examination of the two black boxes that were retrieved from the wreckage of the Ukrainian commercial...
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: Witnessing a Revolution Forty Years Ago
By Cyrus Kadivar
A short time ago, I published my first book. It was a memoir of my childhood and adolescence in Shiraz, a tale of innocence and awakening, but also an investigation, after decades...
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...
OPINION: Khamenei’s Funeral Spotlights A Regime in Crisis
By Kayhan Life Staff
Ali Khamenei burial ceremony in Mashhad began today, under the shadow of U.S. bombings, at the shrine of Imam Reza, the eighth Shiite imam. The shrine, in northeastern Iran, is one...
OPINION: 9/11 Did Not Change the World – It Was Already on the Path...
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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: The Situation in Iran Is Critical, And More Protests Are Likely
By Majid Mohammadi
There is no longer any need to cite alarming data such as hyperinflation, chronic unemployment, negative growth, non-existence foreign trade, and endemic corruption to prove that Iran has been in the grip...
