Britain’s most revered institution plays ball with one of its most revolting institutions, even if family members are hurt.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi emboldened the morality police to bolster his wobbly administration. The opposite has happened.

That was the big revelation of his interview with Fox’s Bret Baier.

People living within the boundaries of Iran are those who should determine their future.

How Ukrainian citizens persevere in the darkness

President Ebrahim Raisi is leaving no stone unturned to ensure his country dethrones North Korea as the most inhospitable place for reporters

The neglect and underinvestment in Iran’s priceless heritage has deepened a schism between a public that continues to value those traditions and a government that finds this lineage to be at best an...

The Islamic Republic spends untold millions enforcing women’s use of the head covering despite grueling economic sanctions

On December 6, the mayor of Tehran, Alireza Zakani, was the special speaker at the Sharif University of Technology in a ceremony to mark Students Day. He

The Islamic Republic now excels at funding armies of trolls posting on X, while ordinary people’s internet access is severely limited

The Iranian government’s preoccupation with hijab continues, from controlling ‘guidelines’ issued on women’s dress in workplaces, universities and on the streets. This obsession, however, seeks to...

Protests continue to roil Iran after the shocking death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman arrested by the morality police for an “improper hijab,” who

The self-proclaimed champion of anti-imperialism is now sugarcoating an imperial war.

The kingdom’s rulers may have managed their own social pressures better, but they’re wary of the tumult that’s shaking their neighbor.

For the younger generation, the struggle over the occupied land is merely a rhetorical toy for the leadership to beef up its clout in the Muslim world

They should be more scared of shutting it off.

There is no shortage of critical commentary, analysis and coverage of the undemocratic practices of the Iranian government and its defiance of its

Invited to study at a religious institution in Qom, the author found himself in a nightmare of propaganda and doublethink

Iran is a cautionary tale that stubborn autocracies can’t be disciplined with sanctions.

Hawraman, one of Iran's last isolated treasures, has recently been designated by UNESCO as one of its World Heritage Sites. Complete with millennia-old culture and stunning landscapes, the region has...

The women-led uprising in Iran unified diverse groups of Iranians and drew support from across the world. It is now motivating Afghan women to pluck up the courage and push back against the Taliban…

A month has rolled by since the outburst of nationwide protests over the death of the 22-year-old Iranian-Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini arrested by Iran's

Kourosh Ziabari warns that the lack of international criticism and accountability towards Saudi, especially following the execution of 81 people, means other nations like Iran feel no sense of...

Following a series of executions of young protestors in Iran, Kourosh Ziabari highlights the many human rights abuses committed by the Islamic Republic and urges international bodies to apply the...

Iran's former foreign minister alleges previously undisclosed details about the collapse of the nuclear deal — including a message Trump sent him

After nearly a year of arming Russia with drones used to destroy Ukrainian cities, it's time for the Islamic Republic to rethink its collusion in Putin's war, both from a strategic and moral perspe...

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s silence since the beginning of the protests in Iran on Sept. 16 is curious and exposes his possible intentions to remain an establishment loyalist rather than falling out of...

Despite what seemed like a honeymoon period between Iran’s leadership and the Taliban, growing tensions have been brewing. Kourosh Ziabari explains why he believes this is a doomed political relati...

While many international airlines start to recover after two years of Covid-induced groundings and stagnation, Iran’s beleaguered fliers are still mostly

Nationwide protests over the Iranian government's decision to cut subsidies on food and basic staples and the ensuing hyperinflation have diminished, but

The incompetence of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and his team is partly responsible for the current impasse.

The country lacks both the wherewithal and resources to recalibrate its standing in Asia.

With so much global despair and uncertainty, Nowruz celebrations should be seen as a period of rejuvenation. Instead, the Iranian state has attempted to wash away its 3,000 year-old history, but the...

There are acute flaws when it comes to media portrayals of the nation.

Over the past four months, the international community has been heaping praise on the Iranian people for their audacious uprising, which has been challenging the country’s clerical establishment...

Exiled Iranian opposition figures think that countering efforts against Islamophobia will undermine the government in Iran. This strategy, which weakens anti-racism, is likely to turn against them as...

Iran’s vibrant tradition of literature translation is becoming collateral damage in the Raisi regime’s retrograde cultural agenda.

There is consensus among scholars and observers that the protests that erupted in Iran in September 2022 represent a defining moment in the contemporary history of the nation and that they have...

Before Russian President Vladimir Putin launched the largest military attack on the European continent since World War II, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of

Experts argue US sanctions are putting Iranians in the US on a slippery slope into perpetual exclusion

As the Taliban moves to establish its new Islamic Emirate in Afghanistan, neighboring Iran is divided on whether to grant the Islamist regime its stamp of

Iran and Azerbaijan have stepped back from the brink after a series of rhetorical barbs, territorial complaints and military provocations, a spike in

After six years of dispute that plunged Iran-UK relations into a deep freeze, Tehran decided last month to release Iranian-British charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe. Her ordeal in an Iranian...

The nationwide uprising that ensued after the death of 22-year-old Iranian woman Mahsa Amini in the custody of the morality police in September added a

Iran and Saudi Arabia are inching towards a rapprochement that, if achieved, would profoundly shift the region’s dynamics, diplomacy and stability.

After 2,000 ticket-holding Iranian women were blocked from attending a soccer game in the city of Mashhad, gender inequality in Iran is back in the spotlight.

The Iranian government is cracking down on hijab violations in what many say is a bid to divert attention from the nation’s economic hardships. 

Ebrahim Raisi's personal crusade against self-expression has regrettably reached the small Iranian city of Rasht, once a pillar of contrarian thought. The closing of Untitled Café is but further...

Despite months of ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’ protests demanding an end to the compulsory hijab, the Iranian government is still pursuing new and repressive ways to enforce it, punishing those who don’t...

Four months of nationwide protests in Iran fueled by the death in police custody of the 22-year-old Kurdish woman Mahsa (Jina) Amini have almost abated,

Facebook has closed hundreds of fake accounts linked to the Iranian exile group Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MEK), a move that will be cheered in

Politicians and commentators are warning about the consequences of an emerging “Ukraine fatigue” in the second year of the Russian invasion of the country. The vehemence with which Ukrainian cities...

In-depth: Despite a failing economy, Iran is pushing for population growth by offering incentives and curtailing access to contraceptives and abortion. But Iranians, especially young ones, are...

In June, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro arrived in Iran for a two-day visit, marking the first time in five years the leader alighted in the equally

Unprecedented water shortages in Iran have sparked protests across southwestern Khuzestan that have quickly spread to other regions, a popular uprising

Negotiations to revive the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), popularly known as the Iran nuclear deal, which had come to a halt in June pending

Iranians were already divided on many lines before mass protests erupted in 2022. As demands by demonstrators continue to be ignored amid state repression, old cracks are resurfacing to the detriment...

Without real reform at home, Iranians will continue to seek opportunities elsewhere.

It is disheartening, but the adherents of the world’s first monotheistic religion appear to have been consigned to oblivion in their ancestral homeland,

"They are intentional, they are spreading, and they are occurring in the context of the months-long protests of the ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’ revolution.”

When facing down public dissent and unrest, Iranian authorities are known to downplay the magnitude of the various crises they confront. But officials are

Under a hardline government and an economy collapsing under sanctions, rates of anxiety, depression and even suicide among Iranians are alarmingly high as the Islamic republic faces an impending...

Iran’s parliament is pursuing two pieces of legislation that boil down to a government fiat that Iranians shouldn’t have public opinions and express them freely.

When Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi recently posed for a photo-op with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, the top-level meeting in Moscow was

In her short 40 years, Maryam Mirzakhani made outstanding contributions to her field. Five years after her death, millions in Iran and beyond continue to celebrate her excellence, determination, and...

The world must punish the Afghan regime for its broken promises.

It is common knowledge that the Iranian government is in an acutely vulnerable position and that a blend of draconian international sanctions, public