By Jon Gambrell | AP May 10 at 3:51 AM
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — From a former president disobeying the supreme leader to open discussion of a 1980s mass execution, Iran’s presidential election is pushing the boundaries of what can be discussed in public and done online, a small but noticeable shift in the country’s clerically overseen polls. Read More »
By: Babak Dehghanpisheh 9 May 2017
Determined to protect a dominant security role and vast economic interests, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards military force is quietly backing a hardliner in May 19 presidential polls, with an eye toward a bigger prize: the succession of the supreme leader. Read More »
By: Nader Habibi May 8, 2017
Markets breathed a collective sigh of relief after Emmanuel Macron won the French presidency. But there’s another vote this month that’s just as consequential yet has received far less attention: Iran’s May 19 presidential election. Read More »
Bahiyyih Nakhjavani
Join international bestselling author Bahiyyih Nakhjavani in conversation with author and comedian Omid Djalili for the launch of her new novel, Us & Them.
Bahiyyih Nakhjavani, the author of The Saddlebag, Paper, and The Woman Who Read Too Much, returns with her new book Us & Them, a poignant satire told through fragmented lives, that explores the ludicrous and the tragic, the venal and the generous-hearted aspects of Iranian life away from home. Read More »
by JIM GERAGHTY
Michael Flynn: Iranian Spies Are Up to No Good in New York City As mentioned yesterday, one of Donald Trump’s potential running mates is retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, the former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, and author of the new book, The Field of Fight: How We Can Win the Global War Against Radical Islam and its Allies. Read More »
THE ARAB WEEKLY
by:Mohamed Kawas
At this juncture, what the world needs to do is to liberate “Palestine’s Mandela.”
Marwan Barghouti is at it again. To Israel’s annoyance, the famous Palestinian prisoner is leading another collective hunger strike. More than 1,500 prisoners in Israeli jails are taking part in the strike, a testimony to the man’s capacity to unite Palestinians regardless of their political affiliation. Read More »
REUTERS
The head of an Iranian satellite television network who last year was sentenced in absentia to six years in prison by a Tehran court was shot dead in Istanbul together with a business partner, Turkey’s Dogan news agency said on Sunday. Read More »
by:Golnaz Esfandiari
The face of the Iran hostage crisis probably never envisioned the day her child would enroll at a university in the “Great Satan.”
Yet the oldest son of Massumeh Ebtekar — a sitting vice president who made a name for herself as “Mary,” spokeswoman for the Islamic student revolutionaries who seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran in 1979 — sure looks like he’s living the college dream in California. Read More »
A snapshot of those involved in the deal, including the key players Obama didn’t mention.
By Josh Meyer
On Jan. 17, 2016, President Barack Obama went on national TV to announce the formal implementation of the nuclear deal with Iran, and another top-secret deal that secured the release of four Iranian-Americans imprisoned by Tehran. Read More »
His prison swap was a bigger gift to Iran than he ever let on.
The Obama White House’s high-profile prisoner swap with Iran in 2016 was a much bigger gift to Iran than the administration ever let on.
That’s the takeaway from an investigative report from Politico published Monday, which details how the Obama administration deliberately obscured and downplayed the national security threat posed by the seven Iranian-born prisoners and 14 fugitives freed as part of a deal to bring back five American prisoners held captive in Iran. Read More »
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