Middle East
Public date: 24.08.2017 23:12:18
16 Dec 2010
This week, Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad dismissed his Foreign Minister, Manouchehr Mottaki, for no given reason....
16 Dec 2010
A set of videos of the Ashura protests in Iran
13 Dec 2010
In these critical times, let us take action as Zeynab [the sister of Imam Hossein] did and give the true message of...
13 Dec 2010
Economist Mohsen Renani, in comments published in the conservative Aftab, has alleged that academic studies on effects...
8 Dec 2010
For some, it is as if the demonstrations on National Student Day --- 16 Azar --- never happened. You will not, for...
8 Dec 2010
Let me be clear: today was a grand success for supporters of the Green Movement and a day of utter shame for those who...
7 Dec 2010
But in Iran's capital, the developments were far from scripted: on the eve of National Students Day, hundreds of those...
7 Dec 2010
In September 2009, an Iranian political source --- who also happens to be trained in martial arts --- tells the US...
29 Nov 2010
The latest Wikileaks "dump" of previously secret US diplomatic communication gives us little in the way of new...
22 Nov 2010
In the American tour of Mohammad Javad Larijani, the high-level official Iran's judiciary, this is a fine example of how...
22 Nov 2010
In his public-relations tour in New York, Mohammad Javad Larijani, the head of the human rights section of the Iranian...
19 Nov 2010
Choosing a topic for my speech tonight was both easy and difficult. It was easy because I knew I will be speaking to a...
5 Nov 2010
The president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has come under harsh and unprecedented criticism from his usually close...
27 Oct 2010
Ever since the sanctions materialized, money transfers have become very knotty. In the old days, we would provide our...
26 Oct 2010
I have never looked at the detention of the American hikers as anything but hostage-taking. Iran has had past experience...
20 Oct 2010
Iranian authorities have again postponed the lifting of subsidies on gasoline, maintaining a monthly quota of 60 litres...
18 Oct 2010
In February, Iran's Ministry of Intelligence announced seven members of "counterrevolutionary satellite network...
16 Oct 2010
The support that Ahmadinejad enjoys in Lebanon's Shia heartlands can be compared to the support that a corporate sponsor...
14 Oct 2010
There is a widespread perception outside Iran that the Green Movement has been defeated. We no longer hear about...
10 Oct 2010
This is unlikely to be a headline story in non-Iranian press --- where is the drama in subsidy cuts? --- but it should...
4 Oct 2010
It is no secret that the Iranian rial/toman is overvalued --- the real surprise in recent years is how or why the...
30 Sep 2010
Hillary Clinton condems human rights abuses by the Iranian regime and targets 18 iranian officials for human rights...
28 Sep 2010
In the five nights before Qods (Palestine) Day on 3 September, the residential complex of opposition cleric Mehdi...
25 Sep 2010
Ahmadinejad was there for the show, and as the lead performer, he was not going to leave the room disappointed. He had...
22 Sep 2010
The Iranian President is being portrayed as a villain, of course; to do otherwise would ruin the dramatic narrative of...
22 Sep 2010
These remarks from Professor Sadegh Zibakalam, one of Iran's top analysts of international affairs are striking,...
19 Sep 2010
And so Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's US media tour begins, only hours after he arrived in New York. The first interview was with...
18 Sep 2010
BBC Persian is reporting that opposition figure Mehdi Karroubi has made a pointed intervention with a letter to former...
13 Sep 2010
Masoud Shafii, the lawyer for the US detainees Sarah Shourd, Shane Bauer, and Josh Fattal, has said he is upset at the...