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You don’t need to mourn Qassem Soleimani to be deeply worried: Reflections of an Iranian dissident in exile

Published by +972 magazine, January 5, 2020 In 18th century Vienna, where intellectuals and flaneurs liked to hob nob in the city’s fabled cafe scene, there was said to have been an infamous saying: “What’s in the newspaper today? Are the Turks killing or are they being killed?” The quote was meant to caustically symbolize …

Women, Life, Freedom

Published by Brooklyn Rail (Print and online), November 2022 The Iranian revolution of 1979 changed the world; so can the 2022 revolution Social movements often give rise to many slogans which act not only as a catalogue of their demands but as a barometer of their mood. As movements develop, so do their slogans. The …

Zarif’s Beefs

Published by Newlines Iran’s foreign minister, Javad Zarif, is used to giving interviews. In his almost eight years in the job, he’s spoken to hundreds of journalists from around the world, putting forward Tehran’s case, quite often in fluent English. But on Feb. 24, he sat down with the Iranian economist Saeed Leylaz for a …

Tehran Children: Remembering Iranians’ Hospitality to Polish Jewish Refugees During the Holocaust

Published by IranWire Growing up in the Israeli port city of Haifa, Mikhal Dekel was often asked about her parents’ background, as many Israelis are. When they asked her if her father was a Holocaust survivor, she’d say, “No, he was not. He was a Tehran Child.” For generations of Israelis, the term “Tehran Children” …

Quest for justice

Published by Open Canada   Canada is home to a large and engaged Iranian diaspora. It is divided and heartbroken but can still help Ottawa chart a path forward with Tehran. A short drive north of Toronto, just above the Oak Ridges Moraine, lies the quiet and leafy suburban town of Aurora. Like most residential …