Baquer Namazi and son Siamak Namazi have advocated for closer ties between Iran and the US
The four are believed to have been arrested by hard-line members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.
Iran has indicted three dual citizens and a foreigner held in the country on unknown charges, part of a series of crackdowns in the wake of last year’s nuclear deal with world powers. Read More »
Sir John Chilcot delivers highly critical verdict on Iraq war but ex-PM says: ‘I believe we made the right decision’
A defiant Tony Blair defended his decision to go to war in Iraq in 2003 following the publication of a devastating report by Sir John Chilcot, which mauled the ex-prime minister’s reputation and said that at the time of the 2003 invasion Saddam Hussein “posed no imminent threat”. Read More »
By: Seth Slabaugh
MUNCIE — In June of 2015, Ball State University professor Ken Holland joined a delegation of senior U.S. higher education representatives on an educational diplomacy trip to Iran. Read More »
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
One year later, the nuclear deal between Iran and the major powers is working. It has substantially restricted Iran’s ability to produce fissile material, the key ingredient for a nuclear bomb, and in that way has made the world safer. Read More »
The Iranian auteur, who has died aged 76, specialised in a kind of realist-parable film-making that, despite its apparent simplicity, made him one of the great directors of our time
Abbas Kiarostami was a mysterious and delicate fabulist of human nature and human relations, a film-maker whose stories were somehow in, but not of, the real world. His movies didn’t render up their meaning easily; they were replete with meditative calm, sadness, reflection, but also dissent, obliquely stylised confrontation and emotional negotiation – as well as his own elusive kind of playful humour. Read More »
By Charles Faddis
Ever since Jimmy Carter’s back channel communications with Ayatollah Khomeinei, American politicians on the left have attempted to paint the radical Islamic Republic of Iran as something other than what it is — a deadly and persistent enemy dedicated to the domination of the Middle East and the destruction of the United States and its allies. Read More »
The best way to help Israel deal with Iran’s growing nuclear capability is to help the people of Syria overthrow the regime of Bashar Assad. Read More »
War of words between Hariri, and Nasrallah reflects regional rivalry between biggest Shia power, Iran, and major Sunni power, Saudi Arabia.
by:Mohamad Kawas
BEIRUT – Lebanese former prime minister and prominent Sunni leader Rafik Hariri said Hezbollah’s admission that it was funded by Iran showed the powerful Shia militia owed more loyalty to the Islamic Republic and its Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei than it did to the interests of the people of Lebanon. Read More »
Roham Alvandi and Christian Emery for Tehran Bureau 1 July, 2016
Do documents support the claim from BBC Persian that the United States helped Ayatollah Khomeini gain power in 1979?
Atempest in a teapot’ was how Gary Sick described the recent reports by BBC Persian’s Kambiz Fattahi on declassified United States documents on contacts with Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini during the Iranian Revolution. As the official dealing with Iran in Jimmy Carter’s White House, Sick pointed out that these dealings with Khomeini have been public knowledge for decades and that the BBC’s ‘revelations’ added little to what we already knew. Read More »
We read with interest the Correspondence from Masoud Mozafari (April 23, p 1721)1 expressing hope that lifting of sanctions in Iran will lead to an increase in collaboration with the international scientific community. Read More »
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