By Majid Sadeghpour | 1/5/2018
Iranian streets are again awash with protesters demanding an unequivocal end to religious tyranny. On the heels of a largely irrelevant nuclear deal with Iran, people in the United States and governments around the world...
BY SHAHRIAR KIA, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR - 02/06/17
When Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was ordering the recent ballistic missile test, he most probably didn’t forecast a widespread international reaction and the heavy consequences afterward.
Eight years of appeasement policy under the Obama...
Shirin Nariman | Jan 28, 2017
With the change of guard at the White House, it seems clear that the administration of President Donald Trump will be eager to execute major foreign policy shifts. A focal point of those changes...
April 12, 2017
By Shahriar Kia
The presidential election in Iran, scheduled for May 19th, witnessed a major development last Thursday when Ebrahim Raisi, of the “principalists” faction and considered a close confidant of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, announced his candidacy. A few...
By Mitchell B. Reiss | March 28, 2018
In Iran today, men and women, young and old, rich and poor, are courageously taking to the streets in ever-greater numbers and frequency to protest a clerical regime that continues to deny...
An anti-regime alliance of rich and poor could be the key to ending clerical rule.
BY SAEED GHASSEMINEJAD, RICHARD GOLDBERG | MAY 4, 2018, 4:13 PM
While the debate over the future of the Iran nuclear deal and U.S. military strategy in...
By Amb. Adam Ereli (Former deputy State Department spokesman)
The Hill | November 14, 2017
On Oct. 13, President Trump outlined a global strategy to defeat Iran that focused not only on its nuclear program, but committed the United States to...
January 25, 2018
Heshmat Alavi , CONTRIBUTOR
As the world continues to debate the recent Iranian outburst of protests, its "lack of leadership" as they claim, and the road ahead, there is no doubt in the minds of senior Iranian regime officials over...
November 14, 2017
The United Nations Third Committee’s Adoption of the resolution citing human rights abuses in Iran, for the 64th times is welcomed but no enough.
Association of Iranian Americans in New York welcomes the 64th U.N. resolution condemning the violations of...
Townhall | Bruce McColm | Dec 27, 2018
In the days and months following massive protests across Iran that erupted in December 2017, the regime’s vulnerability became clear. The anniversary of that nationwide uprising is approaching, and one year later,...