Articles

By Robin Wright 19 October 2016

The first season of “House of Cards,” the Netflix series about the demonic American politician Frank Underwood and his duplicitous wife, Claire, recently made its début on Iranian television, just in time for the finale of the American elections. The show has been dubbed in Farsi—as “Khaneh Poushaly,” or “House of Straw”—by a state-run television channel. It ran every night for two weeks. The timing seemed deliberate, and authorized from the top: the Islamic Republic vigorously censors most American programs, and the director of Iran’s broadcasting authority, I.R.I.B., is appointed by the Supreme Leader. Read More »

By DANIEL LARISON • October 18, 2016

​Michael Rubin repeats a familiar lie:

Indeed, the Houthis represent perhaps the clearest example of Iranian imperialism. Read More »

It’s as much about an old dictator trying to keep his replacement out of power.

By Laura Kasinof

On Sunday, Secretary of State John Kerry, along with his British counterpart, Boris Johnson, called for an immediate cease-fire to the war in Yemen. A U.S. Navy ship had fired missiles into Yemen on Thursday, directed at the Houthi rebels controlling the northern half of the country, in response to attacks on U.S. ships in the Red Sea. Read More »

by Edwin Mora

Hillary Clinton, while advocating for U.S.-led strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities in transcripts of paid speeches made behind closed doors, acknowledged Iran’s ability to terrorize the United States through Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) operatives and other proxies in Latin and North America. Read More »

By: Farhad Rezaie 13 October 2016

Iran watchers have puzzled to assess whether the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) that Iran and the international community agreed to on July 14, 2015, would lead to a fundamental reorientation in Iran’s foreign policy. Read More »

By: Seyed Hossein Mousavian 14 October 2016

If Tehran is forced to alter its political equation between Eastern and Western blocs, there could be consequences for conflicts like Syria and Yemen. Read More »

By Jamie Schram

The Mission of Iraq, which sits on a wealthy Upper East Side block near Central Park, has a dark secret: Its basement was used as a jail equipped for torture under Saddam Hussein’s regime, The Post has learned. Read More »

TONGXIN ECONOMIST

By choosing assimilation, China’s Hui have become one of the world’s most successful Muslim minorities

THE faithful are returning from the haj. Waiting for prayers outside the Great Mosque in Tongxin, a remote town in the western province of Ningxia, Li Yuchuan calls his pilgrimage a liberation: “Our prayers are just homework for it.” His 84-year-old friend (pictured, right) leaps up and twists himself with lithe agility into the shape of a pretzel. “We Muslims pray five times a day,” he says. “We are flexible and tough.” China’s Muslims need to be. Read More »

By Sarah Dean

British-Iranian citizen Narges Ashtari runs an orphanage in Odisha, India

Is accused of manslaughter after the disappearance of a child in 2014

Ms Ashtari says she’s been wrongly accused, fears she won’t get a fair trial

Says she has been denied permission to leave the country

Narges Ashtari (centre), 28, has issued a desperate plea for her old friends and colleagues in England to support her through her ordeal amid fears she could be jailed. Read More »

By: Martin Chulov,

Militias controlled by Tehran are poised to complete a land corridor that would give Iran huge power in the region

Not far from Mosul, a large military force is finalising plans for an advance that has been more than three decades in the making. The troops are Shia militiamen who have fought against the Islamic State, but they have not been given a direct role in the coming attack to free Iraq’s second city from its clutches. Read More »