Published on IranWire By any fair measure, the Islamic Republic of Iran is among the worst human rights violators in the world today. It executes more people than any country except China and it came 176th out of 180 in the 2024 World Press Freedom Index, to mention just two examples. This is reflected in …
Published by the Atlantic In the months before the Democratic National Convention came to Chicago, the city prepared for massive protests against U.S. support for Israel’s war in Gaza. Pundits raced to draw parallels with 1968, when anti-war protesters overshadowed the Democratic convention and helped hand the White House back to the GOP. But history …
Published in Liberties In the western region of Los Angeles a long boulevard stretches from the main local campus of University of California in the north to the residential quarters to its south. If visitors to LA make it to Westwood Boulevard at all, it would probably be for a visit to UCLA and its …
Published by the Atlantic The administrations of Barack Obama, Donald Trump, and Joe Biden have all shared one common foreign-policy desire: to get out of the quagmire of the Middle East and focus American attention on the potentially epoch-making rivalry with China. Even in fiendishly polarized Washington, foreign-policy hands in both the Republican and Democratic …
لزوم بازگشت به «سیاست مستقل ملی» آرش عزیزی نویسنده، تاریخدان و استاد دانشگاه انتشار در: فصلنامه خاطرات سیاسی من این خطوط را در روزهای آخر مرداد ماه ۱۴۰۳ می‌نویسم، در لحظات حساسی که جهان با نگرانی به خاورمیانه چشم دوخته، پروازهای منطقه لغو شده‌اند و بیم حمله ایران به اسرائیل و عواقب آن می‌رود. علت …
Published in the National On July 24, Iran’s Intelligence Minister Esmail Khatib was asked about the achievements during his tenure since 2021. He pointed to Iran’s most immediate security problem, repeated operations by Israel on Iranian soil and its assassination of Iran’s nuclear scientists, and claimed he had solved it. “With the grace of God, …
Published in the Atlantic Iran lobbed hundreds of missiles and drones at Israel in April in the hope of changing the rules of engagement: Israel had struck an Iranian consulate in Damascus, and Tehran sought to deter any further such direct actions against its interests. Those hopes were shattered last week when an operation attributed …
Published by the Atlantic Ismail Haniyeh should have known that Tehran wasn’t a safe place for him to be. What has Israel ever wanted to do on Iranian territory that it hasn’t been able to accomplish? In 2018, it stole the country’s entire nuclear archive. In 2020, it killed Iran’s top nuclear-weapons official. In 2022 and 2023, it reportedly abducted, interrogated, …
Published in the National Every time former Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif appears on television, it’s fair to expect some drama or controversy. Such is the nature of the combative career diplomat. Mr Zarif, who has been tasked with picking cabinet ministers for President-elect Masoud Pezeshkian’s incoming administration, ruffled many feathers last week when …