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: How an ‘Iranian Hulk’ Turned Out to Be a Paper Tiger
By Potkin Azarmehr
It all started six years ago, with a few pictures showing off his massive bulk on Instagram. The photos quickly went viral, and Sajad Gharibi, born in 1991 in Iran’s oil-rich province...
COMMENTARY: Women in the Islamic Republic Are Second-Class Citizens
By Azadeh Karimi and Elahe Boghrat
The Iranian media have reported on the suspicious death of Zahra Navidpour, a 28-year-old woman whose body was discovered on January 6 at her mother’s home in the northwestern...
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: 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...
OPINION: Shahrokhi Uprising (Nojeh Coup), the Last Attempt?
By Babak Taghvaee
Just sixteen months after the withdrawal of the Pahlavi government, which came about as a result of the Islamic revolution in 1979, almost 500 members of the Iranian Army and Air Force...
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: The Wave of Conspiracy Theories Around Iran’s Fuel Protests
By Majid Mohammadi
There has been no shortage of conspiracy theories issued by the Islamic Republic officials in recent weeks, accusing foreign powers and Iranian opposition groups outside the country of engineering the nationwide civil...
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 Marks 33rd Anniversary of Khomeini’s Death With New Anthem
By Potkin Azarmehr
Iran has marked the 33rd anniversary of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s death with a new revolutionary anthem sung by boys and girls segregated in town squares, mosques and stadiums across the country.
Ceremonies have...
