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The international arms embargo against Iran expired on Sunday despite opposition from the United States which insists the ban remains in place. But whileTehranis boasting about the possibility of re…

Despite the world’s plead to stop the execution of the young Iranian wrestling champion Navid Afkari, the Authorities in Iran went forward with the execution accusing Afkari of "voluntary…

InAugust 2016, shortly after I was arrested by theIranian Ministry of Intelligence, one of my interrogators asked me what I thought of the antagonism betweenIranandthe United States. I told him…

Not a single day passes by without horrific news of human right violations viciously practiced by Iran’s police, intelligence and security forces with total impunity. Amnesty international…

Not a single day passes by without horrific news of human right violations viciously practiced by Iran’s police, intelligence and security forces with total impunity. Amnesty international…

A new saying is making the rounds inIran: power is being sucked away from heads to toes, which is to say, from men who wear turbans to men who wear boots.Iran'snew parliament furnishes the most…

Iran has been going through a financial crisis since it was hit with US sanctions a few years back, and this crisis had serious ramifications on the regime’s regional proxies. However, in the past…

As the first wave of the coronavirus outbreak appears to have crested, older patterns of conflict and foreign policy are re-asserting themselves. Iranian leader Khamene’i took the occasion of Qods…

Over the last week, Washington has turned its eye once more to tightening the binds of containment, in response to Iranian provocations in the Gulf, moving to extend a UN arms embargo and deliver a…

In the midst of the Coronavirus pandemic that has paralyzed the world and shifted all states’ efforts inwards and towards the health of their own citizens, the Iranian regime seems to still be…