Iran’s Repression of Baha’is Condemned by U.S. Agency
A key U.S. agency condemned Iran on November 15 for its resurgent persecution of the Baha’is, the country’s largest non-Muslim religious minority. The U.S. Commission on International...
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Parsing Iranian Responses to the Killing of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh-Mahabadi
2020 has proven to be a tough year for the Islamic Republic of Iran. It began with the killing of its most important general and terrorist mastermind, Qassem Soleimani, and now appears to be ending...
Op-eds
One way to push back in Syria? Target Iranian airlines.
Iran's commercial fleet is helping the Bashar Assad regime and its allies commit vast-scale atrocities in Syria. The Obama administration should have punished Tehran's war crim...
Op-eds
One way to push back in Syria? Target Iranian airlines.
Iran's commercial fleet is helping the Bashar Assad regime and its allies commit vast-scale atrocities in Syria. The Obama administration should have punished Tehran's war crim...
Op-eds
Iran Air participates in Syrian airlift, but Obama does nothing
Last week, the Obama administration admitted, during a congressional hearing, that it had authorized ...
Op-eds
Boeing Should Think Twice Before Iran Sale
The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) reached last year between Iran and six world powers lifted sanctions against Iran’s aviation sector, allowing aircraft manufacturers like ...
Op-eds
After Iran Deal, EU to Lift Sanctions on Guards’ Business Empire
While persuading Iranian negotiators to accept the July 14th Vienna Agreement, and perhaps in an attempt to entice Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) not to oppose the co...
Op-eds
Senior Qods Force General Killed in Suspected Israeli Airstrike
A senior general in Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps - Qods Force was among six Iranians and six Hezbollah operatives who were killed in yesterday's airstrike in southern Syria...
Op-eds
Political Divisions and the Fate of Iran’s Nuclear Concessions
The Western media is hailing Tehran’s suspension of uranium enrichment in return for “limited, targeted and reversible sanctions relief for a six-months period” as a diplomatic...
Policy Briefs
Ahmadinejad Says Homosexuality Goes ‘Against Human Spirit’
BERLIN – President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is continuing to vilify homosexuals, according to the Islamic Republic's statecontrolled ILNA news agency. "They asked me [at Columbia University in...