Iran Liberalism

Middle East23:46 GMT 29.03.2020(updated 00:00 GMT 30.03.2020) Get short URLOn Thursday, the Trump administration added five organizations, as well as fifteen people, to its sanction lists over their alleged ties with Iran's Revolutionary Guards Quds Force at a time when Tehran is calling for the sanctions on its economy to…

From Polly Samson's well-crafted novel to Jack & Bet by Sarah Butler and Nazanine Hozar's spellbinding debut, this week's best new fictionBy Max Davidson and Eithne Farry For Event Magazine and Simon Humphreys For Event Magazine Published: 22:01 BST, 28 March 2020 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 28 March 2020 A…

By Arshin Adib-Moghaddam | – Coronavirus is all about human connectivity. From a philosophical perspective, I’ve been thinking about how this virus is forcing us to confront our common fate, highlighting our connections in the process. The novel coronavirus defies geography and national borders. There is no escaping it –…

Coronavirus is all about human connectivity. From a philosophical perspective, I’ve been thinking about how this virus is forcing us to confront our common fate, highlighting our connections in the process. The novel coronavirus defies geography and national borders. There is no escaping it – exactly because humanity is inevitably…

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his fellow Republican neocons are “bloodthirsty” people that view sanctions as a “wonderful opportunity” to create suffering for Iran and various countries, says an American political commentator. Daniel McAdams, the Executive Director of the Ron Paul Institute, made the remarks during a Thursday…

The novel coronavirus was first identified in January 2020, having caused people to become ill in Wuhan, China. Since then, it has rapidly spread across the world, causing widespread fear and uncertainty. At the time of writing, close to 500,000 cases and 20,000 deaths had been confirmed globally; these numbers…

Nine members of Congress, including Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren and progressive standouts such as Alexandria Oscario-Cortez Ilhan Omar, and Ayanna Pressley, signed a letter on Monday calling on the U.S. government to loosen or lift sanctions on the Islamic Republic of Iran. “Sweeping U.S. sanctions have also harmed…

Kabul, Afghanistan - As the number of coronavirus cases in Afghanistan steadily climbs,­ the western province of Herat has emerged as the epicentre of the country's outbreak with at least 54 of the 75 total cases reported in the country. Thousands of Afghans have returned to Herat from neighbouring Iran,…

As a child in the 1980s almost everything I saw on TV about Iran was wrong. The footage only presented one type of person, often stereotypical. The images on the screen were, themselves, often several years old. When I used to sit in my Canadian home and watch the Canadian…

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