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 …
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 …
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 …
Published by IranWire As is often the case in Iran, the country is in the grip of a series of events that are both shocking, and somehow not entirely surprising. Since Friday, July 8, at least 11 well-known public figures have been arrested. They include Mostafa Tajzadeh, a former deputy interior minister and trenchant critic of …
Published by IranWire In a year of calendar coincidences, the last days of April 2022 posed an especially a tricky one. While Holocaust Remembrance Day falls on April 27-28, the Islamic Republic of Iran, the only state in the world to deny the Holocaust as a matter of policy, celebrates its annual anti-Israel Quds Day …
انتشار در ایران‌وایر ایران‌وایر در روزهای اخیر ترجمه فارسی کتاب «زندگینامه مصور آن فرانک» را منتشر کرد. آن فرانک یکی از معروف‌ترین کودکان قربانی هولوکاست است که دفترچه خاطراتی که در روزهای زندگی مخفی خود می‌نوشت، نام او را برای همیشه زنده نگه داشت. او در پانزده سالگی قربانی هولوکاست شد؛ اما دفترچه خاطراتش نجات یافت …
Published by IranWire Azar Nafisi remembers well the first time she read Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl, the poignant memoir of the Holocaust’s best-known child victim. “I was 11 years old,” she tells me in a phone interview from her home near Washington DC. “I stayed in my room until I finished it. …