Iran Liberalism

TEHRAN, Iran Iran's supreme leader publicly chastised the country's moderate president and foreign minister Wednesday, saying he disagreed with the implementation of the 2015 nuclear deal they had negotiated with world powers. The extraordinary comments by A…

U.S. President Donald Trump gave the Iranians his phone number and told them to call if they want to talk. The Iranians replied that they have no intention of calling, because there’s nobody to talk to. They don’t trust either America or the Europeans. >&…

GULF WARMING The waters of the Gulf are hotting up following sabotage of four commercial ships on Sunday near the Straits of Hormuz and port of Fujairah in the UAE. Two Saudi ships were significantly damaged in the sabotage operation. The Persian Gulf is the…

In recent weeks, analysts and commentators who oppose President Trump's policy toward Iran have expressed the same argument: his strategy of exerting maximum pressure on the regime to push it to renegotiate the nuclear deal, and possibly to negotiate other co…

In this edition of The Interview, Fair Observer talks to Hooman Majd, a prominent Iranian-American journalist and author. Those who follow international news come across mentions of Iran almost constantly. Over the past two decades, the regime in Tehran has …

Robert Bruce, a Scottish missionary to Iranian Muslims in the late nineteenth century, wrote home to his supporters, I am not reaping the harvest; I scarcely claim to be sowing the seed; I am hardly ploughing the soil; but I am gathering out the stones. That,…

Iran is facing a major crisis: Its kids enjoy frolicking to banned music despite years of state indoctrination and denunciation. Amateur video posted online showing Iranian schoolchildren dancing to a song by a U.S.-based underground rap singer has angered c…

Disregarding the vital role of Irans non-Persian minorities can only divide and weaken the opposition, leaving it with insufficient support to challenge or overthrow the current regime.  Throughout history, dictators and authoritarians have expended great ef…

Its this hospitality that has formed one of Sarahs other projects in the country, which she is currently working on. In a way Tabriz to Shiraz is the first chapter of my Iranian based work, as I begin to shift my focus to a longer-term project which explores …

On the one-year anniversary of the Trump administrations pullout from an international agreement freezing Irans nuclear weapons program, Tehran announced that it would stop complying with some terms of the deal, threatening to begin enriching uranium again in…