Iran Must Be Banned From International Sports
The Islamic Republic in Iran has executed Navid Afkari, a young wrestler with a potentially bright future ahead of him. Navid’s execution has led to a major outcry among Iranians in Iran and among the...
Iranian peoples
The Plight of Iranians in Turkey
Turkish authorities on Monday detained Maryam Shariatmadari, an anti-Hijab activist twice-jailed in Iran, threatening deportation back to her home country. Although an international outcry from...
Op-eds
Azerbaijan MP tells ‘Post’ Iran must not execute wrestler
First politician from majority Shi’ite majority country to come out against Iran’s regime.
Op-eds
Iranian Laborers Need Our Help
With the celebration of American employees on Labor Day in early September, U.S. workers enjoy what their counterparts in the highly repressive Islamic Republic of Iran cannot: the right to form and join...
Op-eds
Iran’s Multiethnic Society Explains Why Tehran Fears Democracy
Iran faces the democracy conundrum: in multi-ethnic states where one non-majority group prevails over others, democratization entails risk of loss of empire.
Op-eds
COVID-19 continues to ravage Iranian society: Will the regime survive the public’s wrath?
Excerpt The COVID-19 epidemic continues to ravage Iran without respite, possibly infecting tens of millions of Iranians and leading to hundreds of thousands of hospitalizations and countless deaths. The...
Op-eds
Iran stokes antisemitism about ‘Esther, The Girl who became Queen’
“A Zionist hero has infiltrated our streaming services” in Iran
Op-eds
Tehran Consolidates Hardline Gains At Home While COVID-19 Spreads
Iran experienced its highest-ever record of coronavirus-related deaths in just one day earlier this month, bringing the official number of reported deaths since late February to more than 13,000. These...
Op-eds
Public Enemy: Islamic Republic’s Coronavirus Disinformation
Mark Dubowitz and Saeed Ghasseminajad of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies have done an investigation of the Iranian regime’s disinformation campaign to minimize the real impact of the coronavirus...
Op-eds
COVID-19 Is Amplifying the Plight of Turkish and Iranian Kurds
The Kurdish people, who number some 40 million across Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria, are diverse in language, culture, religion, and politics. They are, however, united by the experience of suffering from...
Op-eds
Iranians desperately need a better Voice of America
After more than a year of delay, the Senate confirmed Michael Pack as the new chief executive of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which oversees the Voice of America and other government-funded news...
Op-eds
Regime change in Iran shouldn’t be a taboo
Regime change in Iran is one of the biggest taboos in U.S. foreign policy. Bring it up and you will be scorned as a warmonger, a fomenter of chaos. Yet we have encouraged and welcomed the collapse of dictatorships...
Op-eds
The Impact of Financial Sanctions: The Case of Iran 2011-2016
International Finance Discussion Papers
Monographs
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
Major US influence on Iranians sidelined by anti-Trump bias
The Voice of America’s Persian news network was once a powerful tool in Washington’s efforts to shape public opinion in Iran. Now, it is arguably the least-watched of the Persian-language channels...
Op-eds
Who Runs Iran’s Propaganda Machine Abroad
In its efforts to prevent the spread of coronavirus, the religious dictatorship in Tehran has been consistently negligent. Yet the regime has been remarkably eager to claim that it deserves immediate relief...
Op-eds
Iran vs. Trump: Suleimani’s Legacy, and Khamenei’s Ambitions
The supreme leader and Trump may well end the long-running, region-defining clash. We just don't know yet quite how.
Op-eds
Pandemic Exposes the Paranoid Style of Iran’s Supreme Leader
Iran’s supreme leader wants you to know that it’s not his fault. On March 22, as the coronavirus pandemic continued to ravage Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei suggested that the United States bore responsibility...
Op-eds
The Coronavirus Is Absolutely No Excuse To Lift Sanctions on Iran
Exploiting Iran's coronavirus crisis to demand an end to sanctions is fundamentally dishonest—and panders to a brutal regime.