Monday, February 23, 2026

OPINION: Iraq’s Election Could Yet Be Won By Iran

  By Noussaibah Younis June 11 (Reuters) - The battle to determine the composition of the next Iraqi government has not yet been won, but Iran could secure a strategic victory in the face of lackluster...

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: 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...
Iran admits to accidentally downing Ukraine's Flight 752

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...
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OPINION: Fatemeh Mehlaban’s Music is Worthy of a Grammy Award

  By Majid Mohammadi I came across one of Fatemeh Mehlaban’s music videos by pure chance, while going through some Facebook posts. My subsequent internet searches turned up many of her Iranian folk songs, which were...

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: I am the 15th Signatory

By Potkin Azarmehr It all started when 14 civil society activists inside Iran signed a daring public letter on June 12 demanding the resignation of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei. The signatories listed the country’s economic...

OPINION: Europe Should Revise Its Narrative Towards Iran

By Saba Farzan, Dena Ziari, Amir Etemadi and Damon Golriz Nov 11 - The principal reason European officials think the financial ties they have forged will change the behavior of the Islamic Republic of Iran...

OPINION: The Missing Catalyst for Iranian Democracy

By Brenda Shaffer Nov 21 (Reuters) - Just before imposing new sanctions on Iran, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the country’s “cabinet is in disarray, and the Iranian people are raising their voices even louder...

OPINION: Iran Could Be Planning Second Tanker War in Persian Gulf

  By Hamed Mohammadi The Islamic Republic has released several photographs in recent days which showed gaping holes in the hull of its National Iranian Tanker Company’s (NITC) oil tanker, Sabiti, that Tehran said were caused...