Iran Liberalism

Last year, not long after Barack Obamas inauguration, reports trickled into the US of an American journalist working in Tehran who had been arrested and detained. The details of what Roxana Saberi was experiencing in Evin prison, Irans own version of the Mini…

Skip to comments. Iran Mullahs - A Glance of Unavoidable crises June 08, 2019 | hassan.mahmoud Posted on 06/08/2019 12:57:11 AM PDT by hassan.mahmoud The Iranian regime's recent actions in sabotaging oil tankers off the shores of the UAE, the attack on …

The Iranian regime's recent actions in sabotaging oil tankers off the shores of the UAE, the attack on Saudi oil facilities, and rocket launches aimed at the US embassy in Iraq are the desperate acts of a regime on its final legs. Stuck in a quagmire of inter…

HBO's epic miniseries Chernobyl is quickly gaining fans around the world, including in Iran, where an adviser to President Hassan Rohani has suggested that it carries lessons for political leaders. The five-part series has been widely praised for its dramati…

This article originated in VOAs Persian Service. Katherine Ahn contributed from Washington. Iran has marked the 30th anniversary of the death of the leader of its Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, by recommitting itself to pursue his bedeviled…

The portrayal of the United States as a hostile adversary has helped hard-line conservatives to maintain their position within Iran’s political system over the past 40 years. In the first week of May, the Trump administration accelerated the deployment of an…

“…What is also interesting is that the book allows us to comprehend the ideological point of view of its author, something that is not detectable in the image itself”. Hannah Darabis work is something of a salvage attempt in archival terms. Her work consider…

The Iranian government isn’t buyingPompeo’s empty rhetoric: Rouhani was quoted by the governments official website as saying: The other side that left the negotiating table and breached a treaty should return to normal state. Until then, we do not have a cho…

The 201718 uprising has heralded a new chapter in the history of the Islamic Republic that, in its fortieth year, is mired in acute and seemingly insurmountable domestic and foreign policy challenges with no end in sight. On the domestic front, since a nation…

TEHRAN, Iran (AFP) — Thirty years ago millions of mourners crowded the streets of Tehran for the funeral of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, and today the founder of the Islamic republic remains a guiding figure in Iran. The image of the black-turbaned cleric wh…