Friday, February 6, 2026

OPINION: Executions in Iran – Ayatollahs Are Testing the International Community’s Reaction

By Potkin Azarmehr Iran’s ruling Ayatollahs are desperate to quell the nationwide protests aimed at their overthrow. The protests, initially sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini, have now lasted four months.  The most brutal methods...

OPINION: Why Trump’s ‘Arab NATO’ Plan Won’t Curb Iran

By Maysam Behravesh (Maysam Behravesh is a journalist at the TV channel, Iran International and a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at Lund University, Sweden. The opinions expressed here are his own.) Aug...

OPINION: Iran Has Been Abandoned by Russia and Syria

By Abdulrahman Al-Rashed, Asharq Al-Awsat Newspaper Israel will not rest until it has driven all Iranian military forces out of Syria, Israeli Defense Minister Naftali Bennett has pledged. “We are constantly working to raise the stakes...

OPINION: A Flawed Survey of Iranian Public Opinion

By Shokouh Mirzadegi The Islamic Republic has not released any credible data on social, political, economic and cultural issues in the past four decades. In most cases, the security agencies review and modify the findings...

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 IRGC Quds Force Is Powerless After Soleimani’s Death

By Hamed Mohammadi The former commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps’ Qods Force (IRGC-QF) Brigadier General Ghasem Soleimani was killed in a targeted U.S. drone attack on Baghdad’s International Airport on January 3. Many political observers...

OPINION: Islamism, a British Colonial Tool in Iran

By Reza Parchizadeh During the 2015 nuclear negotiations with the P5+1, the Tasnim news agency, which has strong links to the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), reported that “elements within the seditious faction,” namely the...

OPINION: Who Staged the 1953 Coup, the Shah or Mossadegh?

By Elahe Boghrat The late Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi (1919-1980) kept two people out of prison and saved their lives, namely the former Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh (1882-1967) and the founder of the Islamic...

OPINION: On Seyyed Hossein Mousavian’s Presence at Princeton University 

By Lawdan Bazargan As I reflect on the harrowing experiences that my family and thousands of others endured at the hands of the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), I am compelled to speak out against...

OPINION: 9/11 Did Not Change the World – It Was Already on the Path...

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