Mir-Hossein Mousavi

March 7, 2023 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

Iran’s Slow Boil

The clerical regime in Tehran has held the streets. It remains to be seen, however, if the strategies employed to keep the ayatollahs afloat will prevail. When Mahsa Amini, a young Sunni Kurdish-Iranian girl, died on September 16 in the custody of the morality police, nationwide demonstrations erupted, often with young women and girls on the frontlines.

June 14, 2021 | Saeed Ghasseminejad, Behnam Ben Taleblu

Khamenei is Iran’s most important voter, and he wants more extremism, not less

Elections have consequences, even in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Nobody knows this better than Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, the country’s most powerful person and most important “voter.” Through...

February 16, 2021 | Alireza Nader |

Fakhrizadeh Killing Reveals Dissent Within the Regime in Iran

In a revealing comment, the Islamic Republic’s intelligence minister, Mahmoud Alavi, said last week that the November 2020 assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizaded, Iran’s top nuclear scientist, was arranged...

October 19, 2020 | Behnam Ben Taleblu |

The IRGC runs for high office in Tehran

It’s not every day that a former hostage-taker and a man essential to the founding of a designated terrorist organization throws his hat into the ring for president, not even in the Islamic Republic of...

April 14, 2020 | Eric S. Edelman, Ray Takeyh

The Next Iranian Revolution

Why Washington Should Seek Regime Change in Tehran

June 23, 2017 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

Tehran’s Own Worst Enemy

It’s easy for scholarly books that go against the Zeitgeist to slip by unnoticed, but it would be a mistake to overlook Misagh Parsa’s “Democracy in Iran: Why It Failed and How...

April 18, 2017 | Tzvi Kahn |

U.S. Sanctions Brother of Qassem Soleimani

The Treasury Department on Thursday added two Iranian human rights...

April 7, 2017 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

How Trump can help cripple the Iranian regime

A consensus has developed in Washington for some “push back” against the Islamic Republic of Iran. Democrats and Republicans would be well-advised to learn fr...

March 4, 2016 | Saeed Ghasseminejad |

Iran’s False Choice: Rebranding Hard-Liners as ‘Moderates’

Iranians went to the ballot box last Friday to cast their votes for the Assembly of Experts and the Majles, Iran’s parliament. Reading ...

January 21, 2016 | Emanuele Ottolenghi, Saeed Ghasseminejad

Hardliners Set to Dominate Iran’s February Elections

The Obama administration hopes that the Iran nuclear deal reached last July can “strengthen the hand” of Iran&rs...

August 3, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Business As Usual: Austria to Sell Iran Cranes for Possible Use in Hangings

BERLIN – Traditionally, Austrian governments have been the least critical of the Islamic Republic’s human rights violations. Now, Austria’s government plans to rekindle a busine...

July 23, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Analysis: Iran Nuclear Agreement Won’t Improve Human Rights

The euphoria surrounding the agreement to curb Iran’s nuclear weapons program last week has not altered the deteriorating human rights situation in the Islamic Republic. “The...

May 29, 2015 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

Transformational Diplomacy

Many supporters of an Iranian nuclear agreement believe that a deal could help to moderate, even democratize, Iranian society. Barack Obama’s constant allusions to the transformative potent...

May 19, 2015 | |

Ali Alfoneh: Tehran’s Brutal Crackdown Continues

Almost two years into the presidency of Hassan Rouhani, and just as long after the start of the latest round of nuclear negotiations with Tehran, human rights in Iran show no signs of improvement...

May 4, 2015 |

Iran Under President Rouhani: Nuclear Negotiations, Regime Insecurity and Increased Suppression

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May 1, 2015 | Michael Ledeen |

Iran’s Greatest Vulnerability

Iran is on the march all over the world, from Syria and Iraq to Venezuela and Cuba (where they have a Hezbollah base). Except when they unceremoniously retreat, as in recent days when their floti...

December 29, 2014 | Michael Ledeen |

The Iranian Death Spiral (Continued)

I don’t believe that economic misery brings down regimes.  The pidgin Marxism that passes for serious analysis among all too many of our deep thinkers would have us believe that misery...

August 7, 2014 | Michael Ledeen |

Iran’s War, and Ours, From Gaza to Caracas

The Islamic Jihad spokesman knew what he was talking about.  His own...

June 24, 2014 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Don’t Forget Sexual Minorities In Iran

Co-authored by Arsham Parsi While the world powers prepare for a July negotiation session with Iran over its illicit nuclear program, the deteriorating situation for sexual mino...

April 7, 2014 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Iran’s Nuclear Shadow

During the past decade, Western diplomats have been engaged in protracted negotiations with the Islamic Republic of Iran over its nuclear program. Though a deal remains elusive, Western policymak...