Articles

India Rejects Trump’s Economic War on Iran

By DANIEL LARISON

The Trump administration wants increased economic pressure on Iran, but one of Iran’s most important trading partners won’t be cooperating:

President Donald Trump may have ordered the re-imposition of sanctions on Iran, but one of Asia’s biggest oil importers — and a strategic partner of the U.S. — plans on ignoring them. Read More »

The Iranian regime may be entering a death spiral

by: Michael Rubin

It started last week as an ordinary session in the Majlis, Iran’s parliament. But then, in the course of a speech, Mohammad Reza Pour-Ebrahimi, chairman of the parliament’s Economic Affairs Committee, made an astounding statement. Between Jan. 21 and March 20, he said “A sum of $30 billion was taken out of Iran.” The capital flight came against the backdrop of sporadic but widespread protests that began the month before and continue to the present day, with a nationwide truck driver strike. Read More »

Giuliani: ‘No Doubt’ US Will Seek Iran Regime Change

By Charles Darnay

Rudy Giuliani told The Washington Post last week that President Trump will confront Iran and seek “regime change.”

As one of the president’s closest advisers and helping to guide his legal team, Giuliani has become a semi-official spokesman for the administration on a host of issues. Read More »

Regime Agents Buy up Property in Homs and Hama for Iranians

by: Sada al-Sham (opposition website)

The Assad regime is using demographic planning to ensure that future opposition is not possible

Regime Agents Buy up Property in Homs and Hama for Iranians
As part of the policy of demographic change that the Syrian state and its allies are pursuing in areas opposed to the Assad family’s rule, agents of the Assad regime are offering to buy property from residents in the Homs and Hama countryside for the benefit of Iranian “investors.” Read More »

Behind the Headlines/May 30, 2018

Jamshid Chalangi:

In tonight’s edition of Behind the Headlines we look at the continued strike by Iran’s lorry drivers and the flight of capital from the country by its top officials, as European and Russian companies begin to exit the Iranian markets.
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Behind the Headlines/May 29, 2018

Jamshid Chalangi:

In tonight’s edition of Behind the Headlines we look at the nationwide reaction of the Iranian people to the death of the legendary cinema actor Nasser Malak Motiee and ask if the regime is concerned about its future, and that, if it is reformable at all.
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