Mir-Hossein Mousavi
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.
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
Iran Is More Than Persia
Ethnic Politics in the Islamic Republic
Monographs
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...
Insights
Biden, Congress Should Defend Terrorism Sanctions Imposed on Iran
Memos
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...
Op-eds
The Next Iranian Revolution
Why Washington Should Seek Regime Change in Tehran
Op-eds
Iran arrests Christian for not properly wearing hijab after assault
Fatemeh Mohammadi was arrested after a woman harassed her because of her dress code and injured her face.
Op-eds
Fars News, the Spider Net of Lies and Deception
Part One: The Men Who Built Fars News
Op-eds
The Revolutionary Guard’s Disinformation Campaign to Dominate Iran’s Economy
hen Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was formed shortly after the 1979 Islamic Revolution,[note][1] Mohsen Sazegara, “The Revolutionary Guard and the Three Perversions,” Personal...
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
U.S. Sanctions Brother of Qassem Soleimani
The Treasury Department on Thursday added two Iranian human rights...
Policy Briefs
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...
Op-eds
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 ...
Op-eds
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...
Policy Briefs
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...
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
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...