OPINION: No Deal With Tehran Will Hold Without Regime Change
By Kambiz Zare
(Kambiz Zare is Professor of International Business and Geostrategy at KEDGE Business School and a member of the Scientific Committee of the Spirales Institute, a France-based think tank. The views expressed are...
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: The Islamic Republic Regime’s Desperate Battle for Survival
By Hamed Mohammadi
The former head of the Supreme Court of Iran, the late Ayatollah Seyyed Mohammad Hossein Beheshti (1928-1981), delivered a speech at Tehran University on Oct. 26, 1979, in which he said: “Iranians...
OPINION: How Can 80 Million Iranians Tolerate This Regime?
By Farid Khalifi
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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: Iran is Rich in Oil and Gas, But Its Citizens Are Impoverished and Severely...
By Dr. Mansour Kashfi
(Dr. Kashfi is an expert on petroleum geology and the Iranian oil and gas industry, and a professor at Dallas College in Dallas, Texas. The views expressed are his own.)
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OPINION- How Khashoggi’s Disappearance Could Change Middle East Politics
By Maysam Behravesh
Oct 10 (Reuters) - The disappearance and possible murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi has cast a long shadow over Saudi Arabia’s global image. If the Saudi government did in fact kill...
OPINION: Iran’s Role in Protests Against ‘The Lady of Heaven’ Movie
By Potkin Azarmehr
The cinema chain Cineworld canceled the screening of “The Lady of Heaven” after Muslim activists living in the UK protested outside its theaters last week.
https://youtu.be/1MaDAW0jRYM
Threats by angry Muslim mobs and the absence...
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 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: Time for Talks to End U.S.-Iran Stalemate?
By Mehrdad Khonsari
In the current standoff between Iran and the U.S., a U.S. president who shows no sign of being trigger-happy is pitted against a defiant Iranian government that refuses to capitulate. With any...
