March 19, 2025

Trump’s message shakes the pillars of Khamenei’s regime

On March 17, 2025, Donald Trump issued a significant statement on his Truth Social account. This firm and threatening message explicitly holds Khamenei’s regime accountable for the actions of the Houthis in Yemen, aiming to exert direct pressur...

February 27, 2025

Bipartisan congressional resolution supports Iranian resistance and democratic change

On Wednesday, February 26, a coalition of over 150 bipartisan U.S. lawmakers introduced House Resolution 166, reaffirming their support for the Iranian people’s struggle for regime change. The resolution backs the National Council of Resistance...

February 12, 2024

The Iranian regime is using Wikipedia to spread disinformation

The Iranian regime is using Wikipedia to spread disinformation. In America, we know that some groups routinely game Wikipedia, but the difference is that, in Iran, it’s not independent actors engaged in this game; it’s the government itse...

December 28, 2023

The Red Sea powder keg

The Iranian regime's policies have exacerbated the crisis in the Red Sea. The ongoing Gaza conflict has resulted in nearly 20,000 casualties, shedding light on the behind-the-scenes role of the Iranian regime and Supreme Leader in this war. Irani...

November 6, 2023

Why is the head of the snake in Tehran?

The proliferation of conflict in the Middle East is deeply concerning. Proxy groups affiliated with Iran’s Revolutionary Guard have been active, extending the reach of more narrow regional wars. It’s a stark reality that Hamas, Hezbollah ...

September 10, 2023

Why should opponents of Iran's mullah regime be protected?

Former Rep. Ted Poe of Texas, who had been chairman of the House Subcommittee on Terrorism, Counterproliferation, and Trade, wrote a Stars and Stripes article dated August 29, 2023 that was titled: To help the Iranian p...

August 18, 2023

Republicans are agreed: Biden’s paying for hostages is a bad idea

The world’s media has reported that the Biden administration has freed five dual-national hostages by unblocking six billion dollars from Iran’s frozen funds. This announcement came on the eve of the 2022 uprising anniversary, which start...

July 26, 2023

From Paris to Rome, the West faces the truth of Iran!

Five hundred political figures from around the world, many well known, attended the recent Paris Free Iran summit.  Their enthusiastic presence showed that Tom Ridge, the first secretary of U.S. Homeland Security, was correct when he s...

December 16, 2022

Iran’s police are brutalizing those it catches at the protests

The protests in Iran are now in their fourth month, and the government is responding with increasing aggression. It has already executed two protesters, both for murder, condemned another protester to death, and has accused 20 or more protesters of c...

November 12, 2022

Is there a way for the Iranian regime to survive?

For almost two months, Iranian citizens have been protesting the mullahs. The question now is whether the mullahs have viable options for maintaining their power while dealing with the protesters. I offer three possible strategies the mullahs might c...

October 5, 2022

Iran: mere unrest or actual revolution?

The recent protests in Iran, which many called a revolution, are the most significant wave of anger towards the dictatorial regime in Iran since 2009’s strikes and demonstrations. In one day, conflicts between the people and police forces sprea...

July 31, 2022

Iran’s Guidance Patrol preys on women

On Tuesday, July 19, 2022, a heartbreaking video spread rapidly on Iran’s social media. A middle-aged mother stood in front of the white and green Guidance Patrol van, desperately trying to stop it from driving away. At the same time, she screa...

June 18, 2021

The sham election crisis and the inflamed atmosphere of Iranian society

On Friday, June 18, 2021, a presidential election will take place in an Iran struggling with instability and confusion.  According to the Iranian regime's officials, this election is expected to be one of the most stagnant and sluggish ...

June 6, 2021

The Iranian regime is losing its regional mystique

Since the establishment of the religious regime in Iran in 1979, Iran's relations with Middle Eastern countries have gone through many ups and downs. Tehran developed a two-pronged survival strategy: suppressing dissent inside its borders and exp...

May 9, 2021

Being a journalist in Iran is one of the world’s most dangerous jobs

According to the United Nations, May 3 was World Press Freedom Day. That makes this a good time to stop and contemplate how dangerous it is to be a real journalist in Iran. There, a journalist takes his life into his hands if he tries to report facts...

April 20, 2021

The explosion that caught Iran by surprise!

On April 11, a large explosion rocked the Natanz uranium enrichment site, where Iran operated its advanced uranium enrichment centrifuges, 250 miles south of Tehran.  With its electrical supply cut off, Iran's nuclear plans suffered a s...

April 9, 2021

Despite Biden's efforts, the mullahs may be in trouble

After years of struggle, Iranians finally gained the right to vote.  Their first election was held in August 1906.  However, one of the complaints Iranians had about the Pahlavi regime was that was the king would decide who w...

April 2, 2021

Iran's mullahs are selling out to China

This past weekend, China and Iran signed the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, a 25-year strategic agreement that is the fruition of discussions that began in 2015, when Chinese president Xi Jinping visited Tehran and met supreme leader ...

March 25, 2021

Biden's Iran policies should reflect the rising cost of living there

Twenty twenty has been an economically disastrous year for the Iranian people, perhaps the worst since the mullahs took over in 1979.  Even before 2020, Iran ranked as one of the most miserable countries in the world.  A...

March 14, 2021

With Iran, Biden can do better than Obama did

Biden’s immediate decision to back off from Trump’s “policy of maximum pressure” on Iran and his promise to reengage with the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (“JCPOA”) has emboldened Iran. Instead of causing Ira...

March 1, 2021

There's a battle going on between Khamenei and Biden

Biden is determined to return to the (to him) halcyon days of Obama's Iran deal — an illegal treaty by which Obama gave Iran money and access to nuclear weapons.  The real tragedy of Biden's goal is that, thanks to Trump's...

February 5, 2021

The Assadolah Assadi trial also put Iran on trial

Assadolah Assadi, who served as an Iranian diplomat in Vienna, Austria, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for his role in a 2018 bomb plot to kill top leaders of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) during an annual conferenc...

February 1, 2021

Iranian students are victims of the regime’s terrorism goals

The Iranian regime, which Trump's sanctions have pushed close to bankruptcy, is trying in various ways to cover its budget deficit by starving its people, both physically and mentally.  The regime robs them of food and energy and denies...

January 21, 2021

The Mullahs Turn to Bitcoin Mining

The Iranian regime's economy is suffocating, its banking system locked at the international level.  Khamenei believes that any negotiation and moderation would mean an end to his nuclear ambitions and the export of regional terrorism, threat...

July 12, 2020

As Iran’s economy crumbles under sanctions, an internal power struggle rocks the government

An old Persian saying goes:  “When the judge and the cleric become thieves, they call on liars and wicked ones as their witnesses.”  Usually, when a person has malicious intent or is a tattler and his/her words are bas...

June 29, 2020

Iran loses big against the International Atomic Energy Agency

A resolution calling on Iran to give access to two of its atomic sites to International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors, presented by Germany, France, and England, was eventually passed on June 19, 2020, enjoying a good majority of the votes (...

June 24, 2020

Ugly in Iran: Judge's death reveals war within gangs of the regime for the succession of Khamenei

State corruption in Iran has spread its paws among various governmental organizations as well as those affiliated with the ruling elite in the aftermath of the 1979 revolution. According to the International Transparency Organization's re...

June 18, 2020

Keep the global arms embargo on mullah Iran

The global arms embargo against Iran, imposed by the U.N. in its Security Council Resolution 2231, will, shockingly enough, be lifted in five months. If it's lifted, the obvious will happen: an escalation in Iran's export of...

June 14, 2020

What's the future for Iran’s economy, post-pandemic?

  In its report last month, the International Monetary Fund, pointing to the fact that during the 2008-2009 financial crisis the world’s economy withered by 1%, predicted a 3% decline in the world economy as a result of the most intense...

June 12, 2020

Iran: The supreme leader's regional girdle is tearing apart

Internal, regional, and international developments reinforced by the coronavirus crisis have submerged the Iranian regime's policy of war-mongering and export of fundamentalism and terrorism into a whirlpool of crises. Iran counts on Syria as ...

June 5, 2020

Iran's mullahs look to exploit George Floyd's death

After George Floyd was murdered, many countries took a stand in his defense. Amid this, the Iranian regime, being under economic sanctions and international isolation for its human rights violations, is seeking to exploit this tragic death fo...

June 1, 2020

Iran: Who is Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, spokesman for the mullahs' 11th parliament?

On Thursday, May 28, Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf (58) was elected as speaker of the Eleventh Iranian Parliament, which has 290 seats, the majority of which is in the hands of fundamentalists affiliated with the Khamenei faction. Who is he? ...

May 19, 2020

Iran's dangerous scheme to get out of its coronavirus debacle

Elderly people who have experienced World War II say the  coronavirus outbreak is like a world war because it attacked the whole world. But the war with coronavirus is in some ways harder than World War II, because in World War II, ...

May 7, 2020

Wave of student arrests in Iran includes two high-profile winners of medals in International Astronomy Olympiad

Two of the most accomplished and internationally recognized students in Iran are among those arrested and tortured as the regime's fear of an uprising escalates. The spokesman of Iran's Judiciary on Tuesday admitted to the arrest of t...

April 25, 2020

What lies behind Iran's missile launch?

Tensions between Washington and Tehran flared up again on Wednesday as the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which is on the US foreign terrorist list, launched a satellite. This launch could be the start of the Regime’s long-range miss...

April 21, 2020

In Iran, mullahs generate crises to survive

The death toll from the coronavirus in Iran has officially been announced as around 4,700, with fewer than 100 people adding to that number for the third day in a row.  However, these statistics have been highly questioned by nurses and phy...

April 8, 2020

Mishandling of the coronavirus outbreak creates Iran's worst nightmare

It may still be too soon to say for sure the coronavirus pandemic could totally change industrial production and the social relations that have been dominant and unchanged up until this time, but the information trend seems to be pointing in this dir...

March 29, 2020

What it's like to bury your own mother in the coronavirus panic

What follows is the account of the funeral of a mother who died on Sunday, March 8, from the coronavirus in Ashayer hospital in Khorramabad (west of Iran), as reported by a family member. Apparently, she passed away at 2:30 A.M., but no one report...

March 23, 2020

Prisoners’ insurgency in Iran

In Iran, the number of prisoners infected with coronavirus is increasing. Given that prison is a closed space, lacking proper nutrition, lacking adequate health and medical facilities and with high population density, Coronavirus infection threatens ...

March 20, 2020

Iran's New Year: Nowruz, the beginning of the mullahs' end

Nowruz marks the first day of the Iranian calendar and the new year.  People participate in the Nowruz celebrations and traditional Iranian Spring Festival.  Spring starts in the Northern Hemisphere at 4:49 on Friday, March 20, 20...

March 11, 2020

Iran's mullahs are purposely forcing political prisoners into coronavirus-plagued cells, rights activists charge

The coronavirus and its mismanagement by the Iranian regime are victimizing more and more people every day. According to reports posted by Iranian opposition, more than 3,300 people have lost their lives to the virus so far, second only to China....

February 17, 2020

Repercussions spread from the Ukrainian airliner downing

On Sunday, Feb. 16, 40 days after of the horrific downing of the Ukrainian airliner, students gathered at Amir Kabir University in Tehran to protest the regime's brutal crackdown against protesters and the downing of flight 752, while a...

February 12, 2020

The mullahs share the Democrats' disappointment after Trump's acquittal

President Trump's Senate acquittal and his rise in polls have been a disappointment for Tehran's regime.  Iran was counting on Trump's removal from the office that could have resulted in the removal of sanctions on Iran. Taking ...

February 11, 2020

Iran: The legacy of 41 years of repression and assassination

Today is the forty-first anniversary of the February 11, 1979 Iranian anti-monarchy revolution.  Iranians took to the streets 41 years ago with a desire for a better life, freedom, and democracy, but their revolution was stolen.  ...

January 31, 2020

Iran faces stark options for the future

The November 2019 uprising of the Iranian people in 191 cities that began under the pretext of protesting rising gas prices showcased the dislike of the Iranian people for a regime, marked by repression, discrimination, looting, and corruption....

January 17, 2020

Khamanei's Friday prayer

Powerful challenges to the Iranian regime's dictatorship have inundated Khamenei's regime over the past three months.  The uprising in 190 cities, with 1,500 dead and 12,000 arrested, was made visible to the outside world despi...

January 12, 2020

Iran's plane-shooting excuses are the latest in 40 years of lies

Within less than ten days, the world witnessed the hollowness of Ali Khamenei's government, and now few would not acknowledge the duplicitous lies and charlatans of the regime.  Today, no one believes in the regime in Tehran, which clai...

January 11, 2020

The mullahs fumble Soleimani's funeral

With the killing of Qassem Soleimani, Iranian supreme leader Khamenei lost his most important handler and lever in the Middle East.  Khamenei did not say anything at the funeral; he just cried.  At great expense, Khamenei dro...

January 5, 2020

With Soleimani dead, the world is safer, but it’s not enough.

On January 3, 2020, near Baghdad's airport, a U.S. air raid targeted Qasem Soleimani, commander of Quds Force, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps’ (“IRGC’s”) terrorist arm. He was killed instantly. To understand how imp...

January 2, 2020

US air strikes on the Iran-backed militia in Iraq have roots in Iran

In early November 2019, a new wave of recent uprisings in Iran — triggered by high inflation, unemployment, and institutionalized corruption within the regime — resulted in more than 1,500 deaths and 12,000 detainees.  These pro...

December 26, 2019

The story of Navid in the deadliest crackdown on protesters in Iran

Navid Behboudi (23) finished work at his bookstore on Saturday morning, Nov. 16.  He joined a group of people protesting the gasoline price hike.  The regime security agents ruthlessly shot him in the head. According to hi...

October 28, 2019

Iran's mullahs begin to move billions from their collapsing 'New Slavery' country

In Iran, Eshaq Jahangiri Kouhshahi, the first vice president of President Hassan Rouhani's regime, said on Oct. 22 that $22 billion of the country's resources were taken to Istanbul and Dubai under the pretext of increasing the value of the c...

August 30, 2019

Iranian journalist from Zarif's team defects

Amir Tohid Fazel, Iranian state journalist and political editor of the Iranian Mowj News Agency, who accompanied foreign minister Mohammed Zarif during his European tour, sought political asylum in Sweden on Aug. 21, 2019. Fazel was th...

July 6, 2019

Iran's security thugs now targeting the women

For the past four decades, Iranian women have fought back to regain a few of their basic human freedoms, including what they could study and what jobs they could hold.  But the harsh reality for the 40 million women in Iran is that the...

April 20, 2019

Iran uses the Red Crescent as a tool for terrorist activities

Since pulling the United States out of the controversial 2015 JCPOA, President Donald Trump has accused Iran of "supporting terrorist proxies and militias such as al-Qaeda."  For years, the annual terrorism report has described Ir...

March 18, 2019

In Iran, the ruling mullahs are dreading Iranians' coming beloved fire festival

In Iran, the tradition of "Charshanbe Soori" is the festival of fire, which occurs every year on the night before the last Wednesday of the Iranian calendar year.  During this festival, which dates back to the 7th c...

February 24, 2019

Khamenei renews his Salman Rushdie death fatwa, and gets his tweet deleted

A few days ago, the Twitter account of Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic, published a post calling for the murder of the British novelist Salman Rushdie. Under the account called @khamenei_ir, (which, while not blue-che...

February 14, 2019

Warsaw summit spells trouble for Iran's mullah regime

The U.S. and Poland are not ignoring things in Iran as much global news attention turns to assorted Democratic Party scandals and Venezuela's bid to restore its democratic rule.  Over in Warsaw, a two-day ministerial summit...

January 30, 2019

Iran admits it lied to Obama's Iran deal interlocutors

Remember the Iran deal? Suddenly, the truth about the whole sham is coming out. On Jan. 22, 2019, Ali Akbar Salehi, the nuclear chief of the Iranian theocracy, acknowledged that Iran had fooled the 5+1 and IAEA group of foreign ministers ...

January 20, 2019

An Iranian regime spy is caught in Germany

Iran's record of meddling and hostile espionage against the West is more significant than most people are aware of. The German newspaper, Süddeutsche Zeitung on Wednesday, Jan. 16, citing the DPA news agency, called an Iran...

December 25, 2018

Photos: Iran's truck drivers launch a fifth round of strikes

Iranian truck drivers have begun another prolonged nationwide strike, angered by rising business costs. It's the result of the U.S. sanctions, squeezing Iran's economy.  The Iranian regime claims to have a popular base opp...

December 19, 2018

Iran's ancient Yalda night festival, ravaged by mullah economics and repression

Iranians celebrate the arrival of winter with the Yalda festival. Yalda, or Shab-e Chelleh ("the night of Chelleh") is an ancient and uniquely Iranian festival celebrated on the longest and darkest night of the year, mar...

December 12, 2018

EU: Loyal ally, or last nail in the coffin for the Iran deal?

After a two-day trip to Italy, ostensibly to meet businessmen, the Iranian regime's foreign minister, Javad Zarif, returned on a Friday at the end of November, and his deputy, Abbas Araghchi, and Ali Akbar Salehi, head of the Atomic Ene...

December 9, 2018

Can Iran's mullah regime keep ignoring international pressure?

 The Trump administration is set to announce soon that Iran is not in compliance with the international prohibitions on the manufacture of chemical weapons, marking a significant departure from that of the Obama administration, which refrai...

November 23, 2018

Photos: New flare-up of strikes from Iran's angry sugar cane workers

Angry workers of Haft Tappeh Sugar Cane factory, (and the their Ahvaz Steel factory allies) rallied on Monday, Nov. 19, to protest the mullah regime's arrest of a large number of sugar cane workers. According to NCRI reports, the strike an...

November 15, 2018

Iran: Steel Factory Workers protest in oil-rich Ahvaz

Strikes are breaking out all over Iran now. It's not just the teachers, the elderly pensioners and the truckers now, the strikes are moving to big cornerstones of the Iranian economy, such as the steel industry. Chanting “I don’t l...

November 3, 2018

With domestic upheaval, U.S. sanctions for Iran's mullahs are going to bite

There are only two days left before the U.S. deadline for sanctions on Iran's ruling mullahs. The new U.S. sanctions on Iran’s oil industry, if they are imposed as expected, will be painful for Iran's tyrannical rulers, with the Tru...

October 26, 2018

Iran's economy is going to hit the wall after Nov. 4

Over the past few months, Iran has faced a sharp drop in economic growth.  Iran's currency, the rial, has collapsed, losing 75 percent of its value.  That's a severe blow in an economy as reliant on imports as Iran. ...

October 21, 2018

In Iran, retirees join truckers, shopkeepers, teachers on strike against the mullahs

As Iran spends billions on proxy wars throughout the Mideast, thousands of Iranian retirees took to the streets of Tehran and other cities across Iran on Oct. 16, 2018, joining the truckers, shopkeepers and teachers who have initiated ...

October 17, 2018

In Iran, a nationwide teacher strike adds to growing protests against regime

In Iran, as I have reported here, here, here, and here, the economic crisis gripping the country is drawing increasingly diverse economic sectors into a growing maelstrom of resistance. We already know that social unrest and protests among th...

October 14, 2018

Iran's turbulent economic situation is starting to bite

Last week, President Trump said: "The United States 'will take care of' countries that continue to buy Iranian oil after the second round of U.S. sanctions kick in on November 4 this year." The Trump administration seems to be willi...

October 10, 2018

Iran's mullah regime has a long kill list

Regardless of what you may think of the death penalty, and Oct. 10's World Day against the Death Penalty, it's a very real awfulness for 2,320 brave death row prisoners in Iran.  For this occasion, they issued a statement: ...

October 9, 2018

The fury against Iran's mullahs extends: Bazaar merchants join the truckers' strike

As the truckers' strike in Iran enters its sixteenth consecutive day, Iran's bazaar merchants and shop-owners have joined the nationwide strike in various cities following calls for a strike on Oct. 8 that was widely circulated on social...

October 6, 2018

What's it like to be a teacher in Iran on World Teachers Day?

Every year, the world celebrates "World Teachers Day" to remember and honor the contributions and dedication of teachers to the future generation and society as a whole.  This week's "World Teachers Day," also known as...

October 5, 2018

Striking truck-drivers crippling Iranian regime

  Truck drivers in Iran are on strike, angered by rising business costs, the result of the U.S. sanctions squeezing Iran's economy.  The Iranian regime claims to have a popular base opposing U.S. President Donald Trump and stand...

September 25, 2018

Iran's 'passports to paradise' found in Iraq

On Sept. 6 and 7, protesters in the southern Iraqi city of Basra took to the streets to protest against government corruption and its failure to provide basic services.  These protesters also stormed Iran's consulate in I...

July 17, 2018

High-ranking officials in Iran were behind Paris bomb plot

Most American are at least vaguely aware of Iran's designation as a "state sponsor of terror."  It's completely true, and in an incident that unfolded in France and Belgium just a few days ago, there's outstanding proo...

July 1, 2018

Getting rid of mullah tyranny: 'Iran Freedom 2018' conference mulls new alternatives

Tens of thousands of people and hundreds of political figures, lawmakers from U.S., Europe and the Middle East attended the grand gathering of Iran's democratic opposition groups in Paris on June 30 to call for regime change in Iran, seeking...

June 30, 2018

Big names turn up for 'Free Iran 2018' mega-event to raise international support

As Tehran and other Iranian cities have become scenes of major anti-regime protests, the opposition gathering known as "Free Iran 2018 – The Alternative" will take off on June 30, near Paris. Participants in the gathering will incl...

June 30, 2018

Experts eye prospects for change in Iran at big Paris exile conference, with praise for Trump

In Paris Friday, freedom-loving Iranians held a major "Free Iran 2018" conference, featuring a panel discussion with experts from the U.S., Canada, France, and Algeria, discussing the consequences of recent protests in Iran along with what...

May 24, 2018

Photos: Iran's truck-drivers take on the mullahs in indefinite nationwide strike

Angry Iranian truck-drivers began a nationwide strike on Tuesday, May 22, 2018 in more than 70 cities, protesting the mullah regime.  They protested low wages; high taxes; lack of job security; mismanagement of their facilities; worsening l...

May 7, 2018

Iran's mullahs are convinced their problem is social media, not how they run their regime

While President Trump, President Emmanuel Macron, and Chancellor Angela Merkel are pressing Iran's mullahs for a more comprehensive nuclear deal and drawing a political map to curb Iran's missile development, nuclear activities, and regional ...

May 2, 2018

In Iran, Labor Day didn't exactly have anyone cheering

International Workers' Day, also known as Labor Day, is in much of the world an annual celebration of workers and their achievements. In Iran, things are a little different.  Thousands of workers in different cities in Iran marche...

April 27, 2018

Iran's mullahs whimper about 'bullying'

In an April 24 news conference, President Trump and French president Emmanuel Macron narrowed their rift toward the current state of the Iran deal, known as the JCPOA.  Macron defended discussions with Trump for a new plan to curb Iran...

April 20, 2018

Allied air strike on Syria socked the mullahs inside Iran, too

U.S., U.K., and French forces launched air strikes targeting sites associated with Syria's chemical weapons capabilities, a reprisal for a chemical attack that killed at least 43 civilians and injured hundreds more. The decision to strike was ...

March 13, 2018

Iran's mullahs getting even more nervous about Iran's fire festival

March 13 marks Chaharshanbe Suri, or the annual fire festival in Iran.  Traditionally, it takes place on the last Tuesday before each Iranian New Year, known as Nowrouz, which begins at the advent of spring.  This y...

March 11, 2018

With Iran’s fire festival, the mullahs have reason to be nervous

Iranians hold and celebrate many different events and festivals all year round. “Charshanbe Soori,” is an ancient Persian “Festival of Fire” and one of the most beloved celebrations among the Iranian people. This festival h...

February 20, 2018

Iran's top mullah pours out the tears and flapdoodle – and then sends goons to beat up the dervishes

Iran's supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, has a way of imagining that Iran's citizens are fools.  After making a belated confession about all the injustice to Iran within the mullahs' regime, he then went and created some more injust...

February 11, 2018

Protests calling for for regime change still exploding across Iran

  On Thursday and Friday, Feb. 1 and Feb. 2, angry Iranians in multiple Iranian cities expressed their hatred of the mullah regime, despite the vigilance and alertness of the repressive forces. The people of Tehran, and many other cities...

December 30, 2017

New videos show Iran's angry people protesting dictatorship well beyond Tehran

Thousands of Iranians chanted anti-regime slogans, against even President Hassan Rouhani, in protests that spread throughout Iran's most important cities. One of these was the northeastern city of Mashhad on Thursday, Dec. 28.  Mashhad is...

December 10, 2017

Iran draws intensified attention on International Human Rights Day

On the occasion of International Human Rights Day, Iran, a country that is notoriously renowned for its abysmal human rights situation, is once again drawing the attention of human rights organizations and activists across the world. In its latest...

November 5, 2017

Mullahs Tremble as Iran's People Honor Cyrus the Great at Pasargad

This past Oct. 29, Iranians marked the international day of Cyrus the Great, the ancient ruler of the Persian empire whose legacy is credited with forging the Iranian national identity. King Cyrus II is held in great regard in Iran for creating the l...

October 28, 2017

Looted and lied to, Iran's people are protesting

Ever since the Obama administration signed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) with Iran, commonly known as the Iran deal, an influx of cash has rolled into the Iranian economy, and Tehran itself has grown emboldened in its oppression and ...

October 10, 2017

Spotlight on Iran in marking 'World Day against the Death Penalty'

Iran's barbaric regime is one of the reasons why the World Day against the Death Penalty was necessary.  No regime executes so many for so many political and trivial reasons.  The graveyards of the mullahs are full of its victims. In...

September 27, 2017

Plundered and looted by the mullahs, Iran's angry people protest

The plunder of Iran's wealth by the ayatollahs, who claim to be Muslim leaders, has left almost nothing for the Iranian people.  Under their rule, Iran has grown poorer and its citizens more powerless.  Only a tiny rich section remains ...

September 9, 2017

Iran is bulldozing the mass grave from the mullahs' 1988 massacre

  Since its foundation, by Ayatollah Rouhollah Khomeini, the regime of Iran has succeeded in maintaining its absolute power through the massive use of torture and executions of its citizens. They are now trying to cover up their crimes. ...

August 19, 2017

Meeting in Albania, tsunami in Iran

The conventional wisdom holds that August is not usually a very busy month in politics.  Most Western parliaments are on leave, and most politicians take advantage of the opportunity to go on holiday. Well, that does not seem to have been...

August 3, 2017

How Iran's people get around the mullahs' social media censorship

Social media websites are fantastic tools that allow us to share the joy of fabulous news from friends, family, and neighbors, whether birthday greetings, wishes for the New Year, or thanksgiving.  We are able to sympathize with our compani...

July 19, 2017

A Tribute to Zohreh, Who Taunted Her Torturers in Iran

"The Nazi hunters from Germany were midway through a four-hour interview with Judith Meisel when they pulled out a photo of a young S.S. guard the 88-year-old Holocaust survivor hadn't seen for nearly 75 years." The Minneapolis Star ...

July 19, 2017

The US and EU at the crossroads for Iran's nuclear deal

History shows that leadership is critical to formulate and implement strategy. "A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way," according to John C. Marewell. Over the past three decades, leaders, scholars, a...

July 14, 2017

Legacy of a dictator: Iran's 30,000 murdered, then and now

In the wake of the 30th anniversary of the massacre of 30,000 political prisoners in summer of 1988 in Iran, the people of Iran and especially families of the victims are still waiting for justice and an international tribune. In the summer of 198...

July 10, 2017

Facing up to Iran

After eight years of Barack Obama‘s strategy of “patience” towards Iran, the Trump administration on Iran is basically inverting Obama’s foreign policy. On June 30, 2017, several prominent figures gave their opinions on the...

July 10, 2017

Child labor in Iran

Iran is currently one of the youngest countries in the world.  Seventy percent of the current population of 80,957,894 are under 35. Despite having rich oil and gas fields, culture, and civilization, the youth and especially children in ...

July 9, 2017

Freedom-loving Iranians gather in Paris, focused on regime change

There are rare moments or events that either change the world or mark the beginning of a domino effect. Some events impact only a single country, while others spread out and touch every continent on earth, such as the fall of the Berli...

June 30, 2017

Iran's Paris Grand Convention for Democracy begins

Dignitaries from the U.S., Canada, Europe, and the Middle East are preparing to participate in the annual Iranian convention in Paris on July 1, 2017. The Free Iran convention is especially important, as, in the past months, Iran has become a...

June 9, 2017

Canada mulls putting Iran's Revolutionary Guards on its terror list

The recent barbaric events in London, Paris, and Manchester highlighted the reality that the need for peace in the world is today greater than ever.  Count the number of people killed in recent terrorist attacks, and plot the curve to get a clea...

June 8, 2017

From Iran, Rouhani's first two weeks in office the worst on record

This week, Iran's newly re-elected president, Hassan Rouhani, will mark his first 14 days as president in his second term.  For the Western foreign policy elite, the main question is whether Rouhani is willing to curb the domination of...

May 29, 2017

Has anything changed with Rouhani's re-election in Iran?

Iran's twelfth presidential election was held on May 19, 2017.  The incumbent, Hassan Rouhani, was "re-elected" amid various charges of fraud, vote-rigging, and embarrassing measures to portray the polling stati...

May 23, 2017

Protests in Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, and Vancouver over Iran elections

In the wake of Iran's 12th presidential election on May 19, 2017, there were protests in Iran.  But they went much farther than just the home country.  Canadians held simultaneous protests in Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, and Vancouve...

May 19, 2017

UPDATE: Exclusive photos from Iran's low-turnout election

Unprecedented low turnout and a voter boycott of Iran's sham election – with exclusive photos. Iran's presidential elections were held on May 19 with unprecedented low turnout amid a voters' boycott.  On the ground, the poll...

May 17, 2017

A glimpse of Tehran, in video, days ahead of the election

These days in Iran, if you walk Tehran's streets or go on social media, you will see many posters that read: No to the executioner Raisi; no to the demagogue Rouhani; my vote is for the regime's overthrow. That is how the people of ...

May 13, 2017

Iran's ethnic minorities boycott presidential election

On May 19, Iran's mullahs will elect the nation's next president.  While Iran's president has executive authority, his power remains secondary to that of the supreme leader, Ali Khamenei.  Even with that curious arrang...

May 8, 2017

Iran's Rouhani exploits a coal mine explosion for electioneering, gets pelted

A major coal mine explosion struck northern Iran last Thursday, killing at least 35 miners and injuring at least 25 others, all of whom were hospitalized over inhaling the gas during rescue efforts after the blast.  The blast occurred ...

May 6, 2017

Iran’s Election, a Political Earthquake with Seismic Waves for the Region.

Officials in the Iranian regime have, from time to time, defined their regime as, "if the whole Iranian populace have one position and the Supreme Leader has another, it is the word of the Supreme Leader that will be taken as the fact, and ...

April 14, 2017

Iran’s iron-fisted rulers ban familes from rallying for the condemned

A few days ago, on April 9, Tehran witnessed a painful day for the family members of death row inmates, especially the mothers, whose beloved children are under imminent threat of execution in Iran's prisons. The families held a protest in...

April 12, 2017

The Tale of the Small White Fish in Iran

On a cold winter night in late February, in a large lake near the city of Ahwaz, the capital of the oil-rich Khuzistan Province in southwest Iran, an old and wise fish gathered around the 7,500 small and baby fishes of his school. He was preparing to...

April 5, 2017

Iran’s IRGC's terror plans against the U.S.

Hundreds of years ago, when medical science was undevelopeed, people lost their lives for simple and easily preventable diseases. There was a time, for example, when bubonic plague was man’s number one enemy. Everybody, even those with no knowl...

April 1, 2017

Why Iran's supreme leader fears gender equality

For the ayatollahs, women's rights are a matter of puppetry, with yes-women parroting whatever the mullahs' line for the day is.  For Iran's real women's rights champions, the picture is very different.  They can demonstrate...

March 30, 2017

Believe Iran, Not Its Ayatollahs

To Iran's mullahs, it's a pity that their party with the former United States administration did not last longer. The Obama administration was regarded as a symbol of friendship and brotherhood in the eyes of the Ayatollahs. But, those days a...

March 20, 2017

Iran's mullahs try to spoil the annual Fire Feast – and Iranians ignore them

One of the favorite celebrations for the Iranian people is the Festival of Fire, which takes place on the eve of the last Wednesday before Nowruz. It's a prelude to Nowruz, which is the Iranian new year, and the first day of spring, which...

March 15, 2017

Iran's New Year: Nowruz's Renewal and Rebirth May Herald the Mullahs' End

With the onset of spring and the Iranian New Year, amid the economic hardship inside, and diasporic societies everywhere around the world, Iranian citizens celebrate with the hope of a forward perspective for the good year to come, the year of the en...

March 13, 2017

In Iran, A Nationwide Teachers' Demonstration

Amid ballistic missile tests by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard and continued economic and political isolation, Iran’s domestic unrest is escalating. Simultaneous protests of thousands of angry teachers in more than 22 cities broke out in I...

March 5, 2017

Mullahs' Nightmare: Huge Demonstration Breaks Out In Tehran

  Iran's rulers are attempting to end their country's international isolation. But there are innumerable obstacles for them, beginning with the goon-like activity of  Iran's Revolutionary Guard (IRGC)...

February 25, 2017

Missile Launches And Storm Damages Show Failure Of Obama's Iran Deal

Despite access to new cash in the wake of President Obama's Iran Deal, the mullahs aren't using it to aid Iran's storm-ravaged provinces. They're busy shelling out for missiles. In recent weeks, disastrous flash floods, ava...

February 18, 2017

New Political Unrest in the Oil-Rich Fields of Iran

While Iran and the United States are still rattling sabers at one another, there's an emerging disruptive potential inside Iran in its main oil field province, Khuzestan, which has shocked the country. Thirty-eight years ago, what are known as ...

February 12, 2017

Amid Mideast Turmoil, Look to Iran's Mullahs as the Root of the Problem

On Sunday Jan. 29, only ten days after Trump’s inauguration, Iran once again shocked the world by conducting its first ballistic missile test.  Three days later, Trump's National Security Advisor Michael Flynn condemned ...

February 11, 2017

Iran's Apologists Still Pushing to Appease Tehran’s Mullahs

  After eight years, Barack Obama left the White House on Jan. 20, bringing an end to a failed policy of appeasement. This policy led to the spread of fundamentalist and state-sponsored terror, displace...

January 28, 2017

Iranians outraged over incompetent government response to Tehran skyscraper fire disaster

Iran was shocked on Thursday, January 19 as a deadly fire raged in downtown Tehran’s iconic 17-story Plasco tower.  Firefighters battled the blaze for several hours, yet the high-rise collapsed, and at least thirty trapped f...

January 18, 2017

‘Moderate’ Rafsanjani’s death and the end of Obama’s appeasement of the mullahs?

On the evening of January 9, something unusual happened in Iran.  The Iranian people turned the music on until midnight, some others distributed candy in the streets of Tehran, and some turned on their automobiles' flashers.  The news t...

January 5, 2017

Why Iran blocked a smartphone game

On December 28, 2016, Iranian deputy attorney general Abdol Samad Khorram Abadi announced: "The majority of the committee's members demanded Clash of Clans blocked from Iran's mobile digital networ...

November 22, 2016

An Iranian proverb: When Trump gets elected, the cows butt heads in Tehran

Early hours of Wednesday, November 8. The sun has just started shining on the Gulf.  It is early morning in Tehran and other parts of Iran, but it is Tuesday evening across the United States.  The American people, as well as other nations, ...