Reza Marashi, research director for the Washington-based National Iranian American Council, said the Iranian government is under pressure from its citizens to find a way to escape sanctions that ...
Only ideologues and the ignorant don’t understand that Obama’s letter to Khamenei is just pragmatic politics. If wearing a tan suit at a press conference is enough to bring on a deluge of...
Only ideologues and the ignorant don’t understand that Obama’s letter to Khamenei is just pragmatic politics. If wearing a tan suit at a press conference is enough to bring on a deluge of...
In an atmosphere of heavy sanctions and talk of war, wrestlers from around the world have come to Tehran to participate in the annual Wrestling World Cup. The event, which changes venues every year, h...
If you’re an Iranian who wants to get the latest iPhone, iPad or Macbook, it may just be easier for you to purchase one in Iran than in the U.S. New pressures to “tighten the noose” on Iran thro...
The crux of negotiations between the U.S. and Iran is that, at some point, in order to succeed, each side will have to take a deep breath and shake hands on a deal. But thirty years of mutual demoniza...
Almost every day, news and media cover politics or policy related topics on Iran with a concrete agenda. Behind this coverage, however, there is another voice desperate to be heard. It’s the voice o...
The Washington Post reported on Sunday that the Obama Administration is using sanctions to prevent Iranian civilian flights from refueling in Europe—flights that serve as “the main lifeline for Ir...
To the world, he is the man that was brutally run over a police car during Ashura’s protests, but to his family, he is Shahram. Abbas (Shahram) Farajzadeh Tarani was thirty-years old when a police c...
This moving video, also posted on Mir Hossein Moussavi and Zahra Rahnavard’s Facebook page shows hundreds of protesters in the streets on Tehran on Ashura. Amidst peace signs, chants of “Y...
Government forces have shown no mercy today as they have arrested any and everyone in sight–from typical young protesters to 80 year-old grandmothers at the University of Tehran. What they wi...
According to Zahra Rahnavard’s Facebook page, Mousavi, Khatami, and Karroubi were forced to call off their Iftar ceremony because of crowds gathering outside the Amir Almomenin Mosque in Tehran....