Articles

What Tehran Needs to Do to Fix its Finances

By Masoud Movahed–

The deal between Iran and the P5+1 powers could not have come sooner for the Iranian economy, which has been crippled by some of the twenty-first century’s strictest economic sanctions. TheUnited Nations Security Council’s trade embargoes against Tehran caused the state’s oil revenues to shrink daily, and made Iran’s national currency devalue by almost 80 percent. Unemployment and inflation simultaneously soared to unprecedented levels, and the Iranian economy plummeted to pre-sanctions levels. Read More »

Maziar Bahari’s memoir was the basis of Jon Stewart’s film “Rosewater.”

11 November 2015: Every week, The WorldPost asks an expert to shed light on a topic driving headlines around the world. Today, we speak with Iranian journalist Maziar Bahari, who spent 118 days in Iranian prison in 2009. Read More »

THE GUARDIAN-

Iran’s supreme leader is attacking president Rouhani as part of a drive to eliminate moderates and reformists, argues prominent investigative journalist

BY:Akbar Ganji –

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks in a meeting with foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and the country’s diplomats in Tehran, Iran, on 1 November. Photograph: Uncredited/AP

A speech by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, on 7 October to commanders and officers of Iran’s navy attracted wide international attention. Khamenei declared that he had banned any negotiations with the United States about non-nuclear issues.

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THE DAILY BEAST-

BY:Shane Harris –

A company that works for American spies and generals has quietly started providing Internet service to the Islamic Republic. What’s going on here?

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BY CHUCK FREILICH

The utter failure of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s irresponsible and delusional attempt to defeat an American president’s foremost foreign policy initiative, the Iran nuclear deal, on his home turf, is evident in the political carnage left in its wake.

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By Tehran Bureau

The new party may not stand in February’s parliamentary election, but it’s up and running with its eyes on a broad coalition

The Islamic Iranian National Alliance party, the first reformist party permitted to form since the disputed 2009 presidential election, has its eyes on February’s parliamentary election.

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President Hassan Rouhani is having a hard time convincing people in Iran that he can match his spectacular success in foreign policy with domestic policy. His Reformist backers are criticizing him for not doing enough to open up the political space, and ordinary people are complaining about lack of improvements in the economy. To do well in the upcoming February 2016 parliamentary election, he needs to convince voters that he can deliver on his chief economic promise: to grow the economy and create jobs.

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BY KIM GHATTAS

Massoumeh Ebtekar and Hossein Sheikholeslam both were radical Islamist students who took part in the 1979 takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. Over three decades later, they’re political rivals battling to define the future of the Islamic Republic.

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By Rob Prince

Senator Ben Cardin

A prescription for fueling an intensified Middle-East arms race

The Iran deal: what the Obama Administration giveth, Congress (tries to) taketh away?

In the aftermath of Congress’s failure to sabotage the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) – the agreement negotiated between six countries, the EU and Iran to limit the Iranian nuclear energy program in return for lifting sanctions – the Obama Administration, along with its partners in the agreement, have pushed ahead to implement it. But is this a case of “What the Obama Administration giveth, the Congress taketh away?

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BY GARETH PORTER

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s address at the UN General Assembly and a talk the previous night to about 150 Americans touted the recent nuclear breakthrough as a precedent for further diplomatic accommodation with the United States. But both speeches also called on Washington to change its policy toward the conflicts in the Middle East.

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