Authoritarian countries will try to use coronavirus vaccines as an internal cudgel
The world will have to work to keep distribution of scarce lifesaving resources equitable
Baháʼí Faith
An Oberlin Professor Is Under Fire for His Past
Mohammad Jafar Mahallati, Iran's former ambassador to the U.N., has been accused of trying to cover up a 1988 massacre of political prisoners.
Op-eds
The Middle East’s religious minorities are facing extinction. The world must act.
Pope Francis began his first-ever papal trip to Iraq on Friday, marking a watershed moment in relations between the Catholic Church and the Middle East. Yet for all the optimism of the Pope’s message,...
Op-eds
Oberlin ‘professor of peace’ called for destruction of Israel in 1989 speech
Former Iranian ambassador-turned-academic defended violent Palestinian intifada in 1989
Op-eds
Iran’s new push to erase its millennia of Jewish history
The story of the biblical queen Esther and her cousin Mordechai is among the most dramatic and moving in the Old Testament: After the pair learn of a plot to destroy the Jews hatched by the evil vizier...
Op-eds
The JCPOA Has Not Improved Iran’s Human Rights Record
The Obama administration routinely argued that the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran could spur Tehran to moderate, thereby reducing its systematic human rights abuses. But this forecast has proven unfounded:...
Policy Briefs
‘Merkel worse than Hitler, envoy Israeli spy,’ says antisemitic Iran paper
German commissioner to combat antisemitism tells 'Post': "There is no space for Iran-backed terror in our country'
Op-eds
USCIRF Denounces Iran’s Religious Freedom Violations
Religious freedom conditions in Iran “remained egregiously poor” in 2019, according to an annual report released by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) on Tuesday. The report...
Policy Briefs
Torture TV
The Case for Sanctions on the Islamic Republic of Iran’s State-Run Media
Monographs
The trouble with religious freedom
Some members of Congress disapprove of USCIRF’s defense of faith communities
Op-eds
Iran sees growing dividends from support for Yemen’s Houthis
Iran’s partnership with the Houthi rebels in Yemen — heralded this week by a hardline Iranian newspaper as “the battle of destiny in the south” — has become one of its most successful...
Op-eds
U.S. Vice President Pence demands Iran release Christian sentenced to prison
‘Whether Sunni, Sufi, Baha’i, Jewish or Christian, America will stand up for people of faith’
Op-eds
Iran’s Regime Arrests 8 Christians, Sending Them To Solitary Confinement
The arrest of the eight Christians was first reported on Friday by Article 18, an organization that promotes religious freedom and supports Iran's repressed Christians.
Op-eds
Iranian regime’s repression of Christians ‘shocks the conscience’
A horribly familiar description of the Iranian regime’s persecution of Christians and other minorities emerged from a U.S. State Department report on religious freedom published...
Op-eds
Scapegoats of Wrath, Subjects of Benevolence: Turkey’s Minorities Under Erdoğan
Op-eds
Midterm Assessment: Egypt
The unstoppable envoy
Richard Grenell has made a career of confounding expectations. That hasn’t changed since becoming U.S. ambassador to Germany last year. On...
Op-eds
Iran launched Christmas crackdown on persecuted Christian minority
The Islamic Republic of Iran unleashed yet another crackdown on the country’s struggling ...
Op-eds
Top Iranian cleric Shahroudi dies who oversaw 2,000 executions
Shahroudi, 70, was a close ally of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and had been seen by analysts as a possible successor to him.
Op-eds
AKP Eyes Alevi Voters – Again and to No Avail
Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that the state should pay the...