Articles by Potkin Azarmehr

Potkin Azarmehr left Iran for the UK after the “Cultural Revolution”, an event that took place one year after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, where all the secular academics and students were sacked and the universities across the country were closed down for two years. Potkin started blogging in 2005, and his blog is in English and covers Iranian news which doesn't make it to the mass media. In February 2009, he won the The International Council for Press and Broadcasting Media Award in the 'Cutting Edge New Media category.' He is currently a contributor to several newspapers and Television stations on Iran related news and also writes and produces a number of TV programs

Iran's fabricated polls in America, and gullible Obama

The naivety of Barack Obama over Iran is driven by breathtaking gullibility. Fabricated opinion polls about the views of ordinary Iranians are taken at face value. The end of this administration can't come soon enough
by Potkin Azarmehr - 23 April 2016
Intellectual poverty and ineptness of Iran's "reformists"

Don't be fooled by naive and politically correct reporting on Iran from the West. The so called "moderates" include murderers and paedophiles. The media should be ashamed of itself
by Potkin Azarmehr - 2 March 2016
Obama and the diplomacy of appeasement with Iran

New details have emerged out of Iran of the sheer depths to which the Obama administration was prepared to sink in order to secure the nuclear deal. Obama's diplomacy of appeasement takes one's breath away
by Potkin Azarmehr - 18 February 2016
The Saudi-Iranian beheading fiasco, and the oil price

The Sheikh Nimr execution in Saudi Arabia sparked massive tensions with Iran, or so it seems. Iran analyst Potkin Azarmehr says it was a manufactured crisis to spike the falling oil price
by Potkin Azarmehr - 28 January 2016
The JCPOA and the Supreme Leader’s masterful politics

The way in which Iran's Supreme Leader got the nuclear deal through domestically has high comedic value, which is more than can be said for the deal itself which isn't funny at all
by Potkin Azarmehr - 19 October 2015
Mehdi Hasan's Iran Death to America whitewash

Leftist pundit Mehdi Hasan has produced a garbled whitewash of Iran's Death to America agenda. But the truth is that the anti-American agenda is based on historical falsifications that many Westerners have simply internalised, as Potkin Azarmehr explains in this fascinating expose
by Potkin Azarmehr - 9 July 2015
Is epilation Haram? That is the question

You might have thought Iran had enough things to worry about what with sanctions and a planned nuclear deal. But no. The big issue now is banning female epilation!
by Potkin Azarmehr - 5 May 2015
Iran's win-win policy on asylum seekers to the West

Most Iranian asylum seekers to Western countries are bogus. But the Iranian regime refuses to take them back. Not for the first time, they know exactly what they are doing in their win-win policy
by Potkin Azarmehr - 22 April 2015
How Iran exploits fear of its own "hardliners"

Iran always raises the spectre of "hardliners" to frighten ordinary Iranians into compliance with fake "moderates". It does much the same with the outside world which, at least in the person of Barack Obama, appears gullible enough to fall for the ruse. Don't be fooled. The Communists tried this too
by Potkin Azarmehr - 11 March 2015
PROFILE: Becoming the president of Iran

What is it with the presidents of the Islamic Republic who always fair so badly in the grizzly power struggle in this religious dictatorship and who pulls the strings in the Islamic Republic?
by Potkin Azarmehr - 2 March 2015