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,...
OPINION: Revolutions Are Unfolding in Iran, Iraq, and Lebanon
By Abdulrahman Al-Rashed, Asharq Al-Awasat Newspaper
While recent civil unrests in Iran, Iraq, and Lebanon were initially triggered by the dire economic conditions in these countries and people’s desire to free themselves from the grips...
OPINION: A Post-Islamic-Republic Iran Will Bring Stability to the Middle East
By Potkin Azarmehr
Iran has risen again, this time with a fervor and a determination unlike anything the country has seen before. Yet there is still some reluctance among Western leaders to contemplate regime change...
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: Ayatollah Jazayeri Comes to Britain to Spread Iran’s Islamic Revolution
By Potkin Azarmehr
Speculation mounted in Iran on February 11, when Ayatollah Jazayeri, the Friday Prayer leader for Ahvaz in Iran’s southwestern oil-rich province of Khuzestan, was not seen in the official rally to mark the...
OPINION: The Road to Middle East Security Goes Through Tehran
By Elahe Boghrat
In the past, the world always expected the Islamic Republic to lash out politically or to respond violently any time it experienced domestic problems or international pressures or felt threatened by genuine...
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: 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...
OPINION: Why U.S. Sanctions Won’t Change Iran’s Foreign Policy
By Maysam Behravesh
Oct 8 (Reuters) - The messages from Tehran are stark. On October 1, Iranian forces fired six missiles at Islamic State positions in eastern Syria. The weapons landed within three miles of...
OPINION: Iran’s Regular Army Should Side With the People, Rescue the Nation
By Hamed Mohammadi
More than three weeks have passed since the start of military operations against the Islamic Republic of Iran. And now, United State forces from the 82nd Airborne Division are on their way...
