Friday, April 10, 2026

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...

COMMENTARY: Iran’s Future Will Be Brighter Than Its Past

By Princess Noor Pahlavi On this, the 100th day of its national revolution, I am newly inspired and amazed by the continuity, growth, and unity of the Iranian people’s movement to reclaim and rebuild Iran. I...

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...

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: Iran Is On the Threshold of A New Dawn 

By Elahe Boghrat   March 20 marks the Iranian New Year, Nowruz -- an ancient Persian festivity that celebrates the arrival of spring. Last year was a turbulent and uncertain period for the nation, which experienced political turmoil,...

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: Iran Is an Obstacle to Peace and Stability in the Middle East

By Hamed Mohammadi The Iranian authorities have urged the public to take part in the forthcoming presidential election in June. In his first public address since the start of the Iranian new year on March 21,...

Open Letter: Statement on a Referendum to Determine Future of Iranian Government

February 11, 2018 Our fellow Iranians: Four decades have passed since the establishment of the Islamic Republic, a government whose obsession with Islamization has left little room for republican ideals. In these four decades, not only...

OPINION: Director Babak Payami Remembers His Own Tehran Arrest

By Babak Payami Almost 19 years ago last month, I was arrested on the streets of Tehran by the notorious plain-clothed agents of the Islamic Republic of Iran security forces. Jafar Panahi and I...

Noor Pahlavi: Pandemic Is ‘Spiraling Out of Control’ in Iran 

While the world focuses on the unfolding political and humanitarian catastrophe in Afghanistan, just across its border, in Iran, another crisis is approaching a breaking point. Every two minutes an Iranian is dying from COVID-19,...