OPINION: Iranian Regime’s Inability to Deliver Economic Well-Being
July 23, 2018
Iranians hoped that the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) would ease sanctions, reboot the economy and improve their lives. Yet instead of investing in the country and its people, the...
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: Iran’s Protest Movement Is Set to Spread As Middle Classes Join In
By Majid Mohammadi
In the coming weeks and months, Iran will probably experience more nationwide civil disobedience similar to the wave of protests in October over a massive fuel price hike that left more than...
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...
Open Letter to U.S. President Donald Trump: Targeting Iran’s Cultural Heritage is Complicit with the...
Dear President Trump,
You are the only U.S. president who has explicitly opposed the Iranian regime for the past 40 years. You have repeatedly stated your support for the people of Iran and the unique...
OPINION: Why Iranian Women Should Lead the ‘No to Islamic Republic’ Campaign
By Firouzeh Ramezanzade
Many Iranians, including a significant number of women inside and outside the country, have joined an online campaign titled “No to the Islamic Republic” launched earlier this month by some 600 rights...
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: Soleimani Strike Will Be Felt Well Beyond Middle East
By Peter Apps
LONDON, Jan 3 (Reuters) - In killing Iran's Major-General Qassem Soleimani in an air strike near Baghdad's international airport, Donald Trump has taken a geostrategic risk it is almost impossible to imagine from...
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: 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...