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: Oil Market Power Ebbs from OPEC to the Troika
By John Kemp
LONDON, Nov 26 (Reuters) - The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries has been marginalised as critical decisions about the oil market are taken by a troika of the United States, Russia...
OPINION: How Can 80 Million Iranians Tolerate This Regime?
By Farid Khalifi
https://youtu.be/4esfyCpcSJ0
Any Iranian whom the Islamic Republic has not killed to date is owed a “normal life” by the state, the clerics, and Islamists, for every second he or she has lived under...
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 Solution to the ‘Iran Problem’ is Regime Change
By Amir Taheri
“What to do about Iran?”
For more than four decades, that is to say since the Islamic Revolution of 1979, the question has intrigued analysts and policymakers across the world. The answer is:...
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: Charity Begins at Home
By Potkin Azarmehr
Spontaneous campaign by Iranians, binning and destroying regime run charity donation boxes that they believe are spending their donations in Gaza.
Throughout the December protests in Iran, one common chant by the...
Iran Analysts and Their False Narratives
By Potkin Azarmehr
In 2009, millions of Iranians spilled out onto the streets and protested against the rigged results of the presidential elections. The protests were brutally repressed, and the regime's savagery was captured by...
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: 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...
