Arash Azizi

Published by the National The country has many enemies, but few capable of inflicting a tragedy of this scale For the past four years, January 3 has been a tense day in the Middle East. It was on this day, in 2020, that the US took a shockingly bold action by assassinating Qassem Suleimani, a …

Published by IranWire Co-written with Aida Ghajar Every year since 1988, the European Parliament has awarded its Sakharov Prize to a recipient who has dedicated themselves to human rights and freedom of thought. The prize is named after a legendary Soviet dissident and goes to individuals who, like Andreĭ Sakharov, showed remarkable courage against tyranny. …

Published by IranWire A quarter a century ago, in the fall of 1998, a series of murders rocked Iranian society. Iran was then already in a state of agitation and political fever. A year and a half before, reformist Mohammad Khatami had been elected president in an unexpected upset. Despite Khatami’s moderate, limited political program, …

Published by IranWire Millions of Iranians have spent the past several weeks marking the first anniversary of Mahsa Amini’s death and the grand movement that resulted from her murder. It has been a somber occasion. The nationwide protest movement that began in September 2022 has evidently failed in its central goal of dislodging the Islamic …

Published by IranWire A recent article on the concept of the “Aryan Race” in Nazi Germany and why this racist and criminal regime didn’t consider Iranians to be a part of it generated questions and inquiries. IranWire is publishing this article to address some of them.   The views raised in this article are that of the …

Published by IranWire “A little knowledge is a dangerous thing”. This well-known saying in the English language is well-suited to the study of history. As dangerous as outright fabrications can be, partial and selective facts can sometimes be even more misleading. A case in point is in the Nazi conception of the Aryan race and …

Published by IranWire Tehran could be a jolly place in the summer of 1939; at least for those enamored with the Iranian royal family. Earlier that year, the young and handsome crown prince Mohammadreza had traveled to Cairo to marry 17-year-old Fawzia Fuad, the sister of the Egyptian king. Described as a union of two …

انتشار در ایران‌وایر در میان دشنام‌های سیاسی رایج در جهان‌، «فاشیسم» و «فاشیست» شاید از همه بدتر باشد. این واژه اولین‌بار در جریان جنگ جهانی اول، توسط بنیتو موسولینیِ ایتالیایی استفاده شد که چندی بعد در صدر حزب فاشیست ملی کشورش به قدرت رسید. بعدها اما این مسلک را بیشتر با بدنام‌ترین جنایتکار قرن بیستم …

انتشار در ایران‌وایر توجه به زبان بدن در دیدارهای دیپلماتیک در ایران مورد توجه افکار عمومی قرار می‌گیرد؛ به‌ویژه در دیدار مقامات مختلف ایران و روسیه. این توجه‌ها معمولا صرف پیدا کردن شواهدی می‌شوند که سرسپردگی جمهوری اسلامی به حکومت کرملین را نشان دهند؛‌ رابطه‌ای نابرابر که البته برایش آن‌ قدر شواهد گسترده در قراردادهای …