Iran recruits online for militants to fight Israel
Will the West install a political framework which secures peace and development in Syria, or will its people continue to suffer, much to the benefit of Iran's paranoid leadership?
- 15 May 2013
Does the key to Tehran lie in Moscow?
However bitter it may be for the US, Russian-Iranian relations may be a more realistic prospect than an Iranian-American dialogue in solving the nuclear issue
- 26 March 2013
What could Iran's leadership learn from the Pope?
On the 34th anniversary of the 1979 Islamic revolution, Iran's leadership was keen to stress that it is more united than ever
- 13 February 2013
Iranian rulers don’t want dialogue with the US
It remains difficult to imagine a time when Iran's “Rahbar” might pick up the phone to the west
- 17 December 2012
Victim complex redux: Iran's fake anger
Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei delivered his speech on the occasion of “the national day for the struggle against World Arrogance [the United States]”, making the 1953 coup the main theme of the commemoration of the US embassy siege
- 5 November 2012
Khamenei's defiance: An attempt to hide deep divisions
Khamenei's stance may be defiant in the face of international sanctions, but he's having difficulties persuading his fellow clerics of it
- 15 October 2012
Iran, nukes, and diplomatic fantasies
Our approach to stopping Iran's pursuit of nuclear weaponry is not working. To keep buying the line that it is, is to ignore a cascade of evidence to the contrary
- 30 August 2012
Stop state-sponsored genocide and crimes against humanity
Even if Iran cooperates with nuclear negotiations, it will not cover up the repression of Iranians - not least the Bahai community
- 27 April 2012
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