Iran Amputates Fingers of Two Prisoners Convicted of Theft
Iran’s judiciary ordered the amputation of four fingers on the right hands of two brothers convicted of theft, human rights groups reported on October 30. The judiciary carried...
West Azerbaijan Province
Iran’s FM Abbas Araghchi taps Vahid Jalalzadeh for new role
The appointment does not seem to fit well with Jalalzadeh’s previous record as the head of the Iranian Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee and some of his other roles.
Op-eds
Iranians Commemorate Mahsa Amini on Second Anniversary of Her Murder
The second anniversary of the killing of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini was marked in Iran and around the world on September 16 amid a media blackout ordered by Iran’s rulers. The young...
Flash Briefs
Iran Executes Four Men Falsely Accused of Mossad Ties
Iran on January 29 hanged four prisoners accused of planning to sabotage a Defense Ministry factory and having links with Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency. Iranian state media...
Flash Briefs
The Iran Factor in Talks Between U.S., Azerbaijan, and Armenia
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will host the foreign ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia for apparently separate meetings in Washington this Friday to discuss the ongoing fighting between their two countries....
Policy Briefs
Iran’s Longstanding Cooperation with Armenia
Domestic Azerbaijani Opposition May be Rising
Memos
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
Iran’s forgotten persecuted Christian minority
Iranian Christians are in dire straits in the Islamic Republic because of a new wave of regime repression that has largely not registered in the media due to the country’s economic free fal...
Op-eds
Iran arrests two Catholics in new wave of brutality against Christians
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) arrested two Christians – a mother and her son – in late February as part of a brutal crackdown on Catholicism in the countr...
Op-eds
Iran’s Losses Mount in the Syrian Quagmire
“We must possess Syria. If the chain from Lebanon to here [Tehran] is cut, bad things will happen,” former Iranian president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said in a December 24, 2...
Op-eds
Germany, Inc. Heads to Tehran
As the world's most powerful countries loosen the sanctions regime on Iran, European companies are looking to turn a profit from the international détente. Information uncovered by&nb...
Op-eds
German Event with Iran Envoy ‘Legitimizes Evil’
A German government ministry and an evangelical church academy provoked outrage in the US and Germany by inviting the Iranian ambassador – allegedly involved in the massacre of Kurds &ndash...
Op-eds
German Green Party Head High-Fives Iran’s Envoy
BERLIN – Claudia Roth, chairwoman of the large Green Party in Germany, is facing a storm of criticism from media outlets, Iranian dissidents and pro-Israel advocates because she greeted Ira...
Op-eds
Pilgrims or Mercenaries? Iranian Hostages Freed by Free Syrian Army
The Free Syrian Army last week released forty seven Iranian citizens and their Syrian...
Policy Briefs
How to Target the Islamic Republic Diplomatically
The International Atomic Energy Agency report released on Tuesday confirmed the West’s suspicions that the Islamic Republic is working on a nuclear weapons system. According to the the Vien...
Op-eds
The Italo-German Double Game in Iran
In 2010, Germany and Italy put themselves further on the wrong side of history. Although both countries agreed last summer to support new European Union sanctions against Iran, the latest data sh...