OPINION: Hormuz Strait Blockage Could Destroy IRGC Navy
By Babak Taghvaee
Last Saturday, Ayatollah Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Iran's Islamic Republic, backed President Hassan Rouhani's suggestion to block Gulf oil exports if Iran’s own exports were to be stopped in the wake of...
OPINION: Reza Pahlavi’s Transition Plan Is Roadmap for Regime Change
By Navid Mohebbi
Last weekend, I spent nearly 12 hours watching the livestream of the “National Cooperation for Saving Iran” convention in Munich, hosted by Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi. What I witnessed was not just...
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: 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: I am the 15th Signatory
By Potkin Azarmehr
It all started when 14 civil society activists inside Iran signed a daring public letter on June 12 demanding the resignation of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei.
The signatories listed the country’s economic...
COMMENTARY: Witnessing a Revolution Forty Years Ago
By Cyrus Kadivar
A short time ago, I published my first book. It was a memoir of my childhood and adolescence in Shiraz, a tale of innocence and awakening, but also an investigation, after decades...
OPINION: Why the Iranian Opposition Has Achieved Little Since 1979
February 7, 2019
By Fazel Gheibi
We who have been opposing the Islamic Republic are in the same place we were 40 years ago. We know what we don’t want, but are clueless about what we...
OPINION: The West Must Champion Iranians’ Struggle for Democracy
By S.D. Jabbari
(S.D. Jabbari is an international security analyst and an advocate for secular democracy in Iran. He serves on the Executive Committee of the Institute for Voices of Liberty (iVOL). He also advises...
OPINION: The Supreme Leader of Iran’s Network of Influence in the UK
By Potkin Azarmehr
This week, Richard Ratcliffe, the husband of the jailed British-Iranian dual national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, has gone on hunger strike in an attempt to persuade the UK foreign secretary to do more to...
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...
