Mullahs in Tehran Are Under Threat to Compromise with the US
In May 2024, indirect talks between Iran and the US had been secretly begun in Muscat, Oman, under the Biden Administration. The issues discussed were Iran's nuclear program and the…
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Factional Fighting Heightened in Iran Over Negotiations With the US
Until May last year, the fundamentalists in Iran had total control over the presidency, and the country had a strong standing against Israel through its allies in the region. However,…
Israel’s War of Genocide and the Way American Voters Perceive It
On October 8, 2023, Israel invaded Gaza Strip in retaliation to Palestinian Hamas's attack on occupied lands the day before. Israelis have since brutally massacred Palestinians and, more recently, the…
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Respond to Israel’s Chain of Terrors
It appears that the recent chain of terrors intensified after the helicopter crash of President Ebrahim Raisi and his companions on May 19, 2024. The assassinations of Palestinian leaders and…
Reformists Returned to Power in the New Government in Iran
Masoud Pezeshkian, who had vowed to form a "national consensus" (vefagh melli) government, could not deliver. Even though a few ministers are from the prior government, the key positions in…
Power Struggle in Iran After the Assassinations
On May 19, 2024, Iran's President, Ebrahim Raisi, met the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, at the Giz Galasi Dam along the two countries' borders to inaugurate the hydroelectric complex…
Ethnics’ Votes Helped Pezeshkian to Win the Presidency in Iran
The low turnout in the past presidential and parliamentary elections warned the clerics in Tehran that their political base has substantially shrunk. To deal with this problem, they passed Masoud…
Iran’s Presidential Election Goes to the Second Round
The first round of Iran's presidential elections was held on June 28 (Tir 8). Despite the government's high propaganda to encourage participation, the turnout was very low, as only 24,535,185…
The Challenge of Presidential Election in Iran
The sudden news of President Ebrahim Raisi's helicopter crash on May 19 shocked the clerical establishment in Tehran. In that crash, President Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdolahian, and other companions…
Fundamentalists Have the Upper Hand in the Upcoming Parliamentary Elections in Iran
Iran's Parliamentary elections is scheduled to be held on March 1, 2024. The elections will be for the twelfth term of the 290 seats of the Islamic Consultative Majles (House…
Does the Genocide in Gaza Strengthen the Islamic Government in Iran?
On September 22, 2023, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in his speech at the UN General Assembly, showed a map of "the New Middle East" and implied that the entire…
Why Do Washington and London Want to Preserve Theocracy in Iran?
Theocracy in Iran is based on a legend that a hidden Imam will resurface on the earth and bring justice to the world. According to Article 5 of the Islamic…
Theocracy is Under Attack in Iran
The invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq by the U.S. and its European allies in the early 2000s alarmed the clerics in Tehran that they may be next to lose power.…
Anticlerical Rule is on the Rise in Iran
The women-led anti-hejab movement that began after the death of Mahsa Amini on September 16, 2022, in Iran, is ongoing. Even though the street protests have subsided, many Iranian women…
The Clerics in Tehran Want to Wipeout the Iranian Cultural Heritage
The clerical leadership in Iran has tried hard to prevent its demise, as is popularly demanded in recent months by Iranians inside and outside Iran. To continue their Islamic rule,…
Execution of a Protester Intensifies Opposition to Clerical Rule in Iran
The uprising that began on September 16 in reaction to the death of 22-year-old Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini in police custody has been ongoing. The young generation of Iranians in…
The Protesters Want Fundamental Change in Iran
Since the death of Mahsa Amini on September 16, unrest in Iranian cities has continued. So far, more than 100 people have been killed in the riots, and many political…
Enforcing Islamic Attire on Women Sparks Protests in Iran
Since the Iranian revolution in 1979, the ruling clerics have strictly enforced the Islamic hijab on women in Iran. The clerics require women above puberty age to wear headscarves and…
The Conservatives swept the Parliamentary Election in Iran
The conservatives swept the parliamentary elections held on February 21, 2020, in Iran. The election was for the eleventh parliament (Majles) since the 1979 Iranian revolution. The conservatives (or “Principlists”)…
Dubious Results Of The Presidential Elections In Iran
Iranians voted in the presidential as well as the city and village councils elections on May 19, 2017. The two elections were arranged to be on the same day to…
The Presidential Election Show In Iran
The Islamic Republic of Iran has started propagandas for its 12th presidential election which is on Friday May 19. This is not a free election because the major secular political parties…
The Legacy Of Iran’s Powerful Cleric Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, one of the main pillars of the Islamic Republic of Iran, died on January 8, 2017, in Tehran. The Islamic government announced the cause of his…
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