Neda Agha-Soltan

September 14, 2023 | Behnam Ben Taleblu

Remarks by Behnam Ben Taleblu at FDD Event Promoting Maximum Support for the People of Iran One Year After Mahsa Amini’s Murder

We all have a song. A song whose lyrics resonate not just with us. But beyond us. That’s what “Baraye” or “For” in Persian, by Shervin Hajipour, became just over one year ago to Iranian protestors....

December 9, 2020 | Alireza Nader, Tzvi Kahn

Biden Must Prioritize Iran’s Human Rights Abuses In Future Talks

In his new memoir, Barack Obama recalls a moment that shocked the world. In 2009, as protestors swarmed the streets of Iran’s capital, the clerical regime’s Basij militia shot and killed a young...

April 13, 2020 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

The Islamic Revolution vs. Donald Trump

Iran and Ayatollah Khamenei are more influential today than at any time since 1979.

September 24, 2017 | John Hannah |

A U.S. President Is Finally Speaking Up for the People of Iran

A note about the Iran section of President Donald Trump’s ...

January 18, 2012 | Lee Smith Tablet |

Body Politics

Michelle Goldberg writes: Of all the arguments that have ever been made about why the Iranian regime is uniquely uninterested in its own survival, the one my colleague L...

February 4, 2011 | Claudia Rosett Pajamas Media

UN and U.S. Double Standards: Egypt vs. Iran

After an initial United Nations response to the mass uprising in Egypt of … well, not much… Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon has jumped into the fray. On Wednesday and again on Thursda...

October 13, 2010 | Emanuele Ottolenghi Wall Street Journal Europe |

Free Iran

The recent decision by the Obama administration to sanction some of the Iranian regime's worst human-rights abusers is a welcome if belated step in the right direction. But it falls far shor...

June 24, 2010 | Clifford D. May |

Victims of The Ayatollah

Iran’s rulers have long embraced Stalin’s impeccable logic: “The people who cast the votes don't decide an election; the people who count the votes do.”...

May 28, 2010 | Emanuele Ottolenghi Wall Street Journal Europe |

Honoring Neda Soltan’s Memory

On June 1 Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki will enter the majestic halls of the European Parliament to appear before its foreign relations committee. When he does, what could be more f...

May 13, 2010 | Claudia Rosett Forbes.com |

Paging Ambassador Susan Rice

In secret ballot, the United Nations General Assembly has just elected Libya's dictatorship to one of the 47 seats on the U.N. Human Rights Council. Where in the makings of this travesty was...

February 24, 2010 |

Iran, Beacon of Liberty?

On Thursday, the birthday of the Islamic Republic of Iran, we will see whether the democratic opposition movement has been driven underground by the increasingly brutal harassment from the supreme...

February 24, 2010 | Reuel Marc Gerecht Weekly Standard |

The Struggle for Iran

Supreme leader Ali Khamenei had a good day on February 11. If the pro-democracy Green movement had managed to send hundreds of thousands of demonstrators once again onto Tehran's streets, hi...

June 25, 2009 | |

Where’s The U.N. On Iran?

People are being killed in Iran. Where is the U.N.? What institution could be better positioned to relieve President Obama of his worries about America standing up unilaterally for freedom in Ira...