A tale of two Americas, a tale of two Irans
As an activist of Iranian heritage living in Washington DC, it has been interesting to observe the wave of protests across the United States through the lens of someone who has documented mass protests in Iran and campaigned for Iranian human rights for over a decade. ...
Golriz Ghahraman: 'I feel such sorrow when I imagine my parents' fate'
The Iranian-born New Zealand MP describes a ‘central heartbreak’ of being a migrant child in this exclusive extract from her book Know Your Place ...
Interview with Mr. Ali Arab
In studying human rights issues in Iran there are two general themes that we should consider: First one is the systematic issues underpinned by laws and regulations which remain generally unchanged with occasional improvements or setbacks. The problems in the area of laws and regulations are fundamental and rooted in the constitution and the Islamic penal code with no prospects of change or improvements in sight. ...
Interview with Mr. Hormoz Houshmand
The regime is in a severe financial, health and legitimacy crisis and counting to be able to negotiate with US after US elections and not before. ...
The new man of power in Iran’s parliament
According to an old dictum, the best leaders are those who don’t ask for the job. By such logic, Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, the fifty-eight-year-old who became the new speaker of the Iranian parliament on May 28, is not very qualified. The conservative soldier-cum-politician has never hidden his ambitions for power. His ascendancy to the top legislative position in the country comes after three failed runs for the presidency in 2005, 2013, and 2017. ...
INTERVIEW: ALI AFSHARI
Ali Afshari is an Iranian human rights activist. Although he no longer lives in Iran, he is a man who has fought, and is still fighting for human rights that are deeply threatened. ...
Iran Warns U.S. on Naval Activity in the Gulf
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps unveiled scores of new and upgraded defensive speedboats with a warning to the U.S. that it won’t shy away from challenging American naval power. ...
WORK: DEMOCRATIZE, DECOMMODIFY, REMEDIATE
Working humans are so much more than “resources.” This is one of the central lessons of the current crisis. Caring for the sick; delivering food, medication, and other essentials; clearing away our waste; stocking the shelves and running the registers in our grocery stores – the people who have kept life going through the COVID-19 pandemic are living proof that work cannot be reduced to a mere commodity. ...
The Twilight of the Iranian Revolution
One night last December, the chief resident physician at a hospital in the Iranian city of Gorgan was asked to consult on a baffling case: a patient was racked with a mysterious virus, which was advancing rapidly through his body. ...
The coronavirus crisis in Iran has opened up an internal fight between the government and its Revolutionary Guard
Iran's elected government under President Hassan Rouhani is embroiled in an internal power struggle against hardline factions of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps for control of the country's response to the COVID-19 crisis. ...
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