Oberlin ‘professor of peace’ called for destruction of Israel in 1989 speech
Former Iranian ambassador-turned-academic defended violent Palestinian intifada in 1989
Baháʼí Faith
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
The trouble with religious freedom
Some members of Congress disapprove of USCIRF’s defense of faith communities
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...
Policy Briefs
U.S. Should Sanction Judge of Iran’s Brutal Kangaroo Court
The torture still occupies her nightmares. In 1984, high school student Mahnaz Ghezellou found herself blindfolded and handcuffed in Iran’s notorious Evin Prison for her peaceful a...
Op-eds
The U.S. Should Sanction Iran’s Minister of Intelligence and Security
On January 1, 24-year-old Saru Ghahremani attended one of Iran’s nationwide protests and vanished. Eleven days later, agents of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS)&nbs...
Op-eds
The Nuclear Deal Keeps America From Confronting Iranian Aggression
In his latest entry in our Atlantic ...
Op-eds
Germany Permits Iranian Regime Mass Murderer to Flee the Country
Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi – considered a successor to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei – fled Germany on Thursday for Iran amid criminal complaints filed against him for ...
Op-eds
German Politician Files Criminal Complaint Against Iranian Ayatollah for Mass Murder
Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, considered to be a successor to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, faces protests and possible criminal prosecutions in Germany for his widespread exec...
Op-eds
Iran’s Religious War against the Baha’i
May 14 marked the ninth anniversary of Iran’s imprisonment of seven Baha’i leaders for the crime of practicing their...
Policy Briefs
Whoever Wins Iran’s Election, Its Religious Minorities Lose
What will Iran’s May 19 presidential election mean for the Baha’i, the country’s largest non-Muslim religious group? Given that every candidate was handpicked by Supreme Leader...
Op-eds
Faithless
“I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.” So said President George W. Bush in 2004. Leave for another day the debate over whether such a belief is...
Op-eds
Using SEMA to advance the Canada-Iran relationship
When Parliament reconvenes on Jan. 30, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development will continue to review the Special Economic Measures Act (SEM...
Op-eds
How the world has changed since 9/11
The 15th anniversary of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 should be a time for mourning, commemoration, reflection — and strategic planning. But many people prefer to avoid thinking to...
Op-eds
Why Are These IRGC Figures Not Sanctioned?
The White House promised Congress last summer that the Iran nuclear accord would not prevent the United States from imposing additional non-nuclear sanctions. Yet Ambassador Stephen Mull, the adm...
Policy Briefs
Analysis: If Iran Can’t Hold Human Rights Pledges, How Can it Abide by Nuke Deal?
BERLIN – The award of this week’s Nobel Peace Prize to Taliban victim...