Monday, December 2, 2024

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 – “I Feel Suffocated”: Afghans Are Feeling Hopeless, but There’s Still a...

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OPINION: How Can 80 Million Iranians Tolerate This Regime?

By Farid Khalifi https://youtu.be/4esfyCpcSJ0 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: Why Iranian Women Should Lead the ‘No to Islamic Republic’ Campaign 

By Firouzeh Ramezanzade Many Iranians, including a significant number of women inside and outside the country, have joined an online campaign titled “No to the Islamic Republic” launched earlier this month by some 600 rights...

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: Iran Economic Crisis Underpins ‘No to Islamic Republic’ Campaign

By Roshanak Astaraki In recent days, many Iranians inside and outside the country have joined an online campaign titled “No to the Islamic Republic,” launched earlier this month by some 600 Iranian political dissidents, activists,...

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: As Reza Pahlavi Turns 60, A Call for Freedom in Iran

By Cameron Khansarinia Cameron Khansarinia is Policy Director of the National Union for Democracy in Iran (NUFDI), a nonprofit and nonpartisan organization dedicated to freedom in Iran based in Washington, DC. He is a graduate...
Iran admits to accidentally downing Ukraine's Flight 752

OPINION: Why Will Iran Not Tell the Truth About Ukrainian Plane Crash?

By Hamed Mohammadi On Jul. 24, the Bureau of Enquiry and Analysis for Civil Aviation Safety (BEA) concluded its examination of the two black boxes that were retrieved from the wreckage of the Ukrainian commercial...

OPINION: The U.S. Move to ‘Snapback’ UN Sanctions will lead to Disappointment for the...

By Bahram Ghiassee The Trump Administration, in line with its policy of exerting maximum economic, diplomatic, and political pressure on Iran, on 20 August 2020, invoked the so-called ‘Snapback’ provisions of the UN Security Council...