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: 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...
Why Is Japan’s Abe Going to Iran? What Can He Accomplish?
By Kiyoshi Takenaka and Aaron Sheldrick
TOKYO, June 7 (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is due to visit Iran next week in an apparent mediation mission to ease tension between Iran and the United States.
Following are some...
OPINION: Iran and U.S. Both Declare Victory in Their War of Words
By Rafiq Khoury, Independent Arabia online news website
In his memoirs, former Israeli President Shimon Peres (1923-2016) writes: “ Ben Gurion and I were traveling together from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem one day. Ben Gurion,...
OPINION: U.S. Will Not Lift Sanctions Against Iran Anytime Soon
By Hadi Raouf, The Independent Arabia
The fight against the COVID-19 pandemic -- which has caused global health, humanitarian and economic crisis -- requires a coherent and concerted plan of action and unprecedented cooperation by...
Noor Pahlavi: Pandemic Is ‘Spiraling Out of Control’ in Iran
While the world focuses on the unfolding political and humanitarian catastrophe in Afghanistan, just across its border, in Iran, another crisis is approaching a breaking point.
Every two minutes an Iranian is dying from COVID-19,...
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...
OPINION: As World Watches Ukraine, Iran and Other Mideast States Chart a New Path
By Peter Apps
LONDON, March 24 (Reuters) - As Russia faced Western outrage over its invasion of Ukraine, Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad was quietly being welcomed back to the club of Middle East leaders in the UAE...
OPINION: Iranian Trade Unionist Narges Mansouri Delivers Nowruz Message
I extend my congratulations to everyone, especially the great nation of Iran, on the occasion of the ancient feast of Nowruz and the regeneration of the planet Earth.
It is a matter of pride that...
OPINION: Scholars for Dollars: The Role of Iran’s Religious Bureaucrats
By Imam Mohammad Tawhidi
In 2007, I travelled to Iran from Australia in order to engage in Islamic Studies. I was publicly ordained as an Imam in 2010 in the Holy City of Qum, and relocated to...
