October 25, 2022

Iran, the UN, and women

One of the great speeches of the 20th century was given by Eleanor Roosevelt, the first lady of the United States, on September 28, 1948 at Sorbonne University Paris, and began with the title: "The Promise of Human Rights."  ...

March 8, 2021

Four decades of Iranian gender apartheid

March is the International Women's Month, when American women are celebrating their power in sex equality.  However, many Iranian female lawyers are in prisons of the Islamic regime and will not celebrate this month.  Iranian ...

August 7, 2020

The real face of revolution

I fled from the aftermath of the same kind of "revolution" as that of Antifa in my motherland, Iran. They marched, looted, set the buildings, police stations, and movie theaters full of people on fire.  They pulled down the sta...

January 14, 2018

The Ladies vs. the Mullahs

No one knows her name, but a young Iranian woman waving a white scarf has become a symbol of almost forty years of struggle by Iranian women, protesting the gender apartheid that clerics brought to our country, overnight, in the winter of 1...

July 6, 2016

The Secret Negotiations between Carter and Khomeini

The reporters of the BBC Persian language have been exposing the history of a conspiracy between Ayatollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic tyranny in Iran, and President Jimmy Carter, during the 1978-1979 so-called “revolution”. The ...

May 20, 2016

It was 1979 (not 2003) that Unleashed Political Islam

It has become the fact in American political talking points, even Mr. Trump insists that what is going on in the Middle East today is the result of the President Bush’s 2003 policy in Iraq that opened the doors to chaos and the creation of ISIS...

April 30, 2015

The Mullahs and the Real Iran

In an article in New York Times April 26th issue titled; "Iran Won't Give up on its Revolution", three of the Washington Institute senior fellow experts on Iran have wrongly connected the history of Iran to...

April 22, 2015

Paying for Iran's Missiles

Appearing at the White House with Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, President Obama was asked about Russia’s sale of surface-to-air missiles to Iran. His response was; “the sale was slated to happen in 2009, when I first met with then-...

January 16, 2015

Bill Ayers is a Historical Illiterate

Bill Ayers has granted an interview to the Fars News Agency, the voice of the ruling clergy in Iran. There is no information as to whether he is sought this interview or the reporter approached him for his endorsement of the anti-American rhetoric of...

December 12, 2014

Hillary Clinton Empowers Dictators

In her speech in Georgetown University in Washington, Mrs. Clinton said “America should 'empathize' and 'show respect' for its enemies” Who is the enemy that Mrs. Clinton is referring to, in Iran? The small group o...

November 11, 2014

Khamanei's Nuclear Ruse

President Obama and the Democrats touted Hassan Rohani as a moderate and the right person to make a deal with on the nuclear program of the Islamist State in Iran (ISI). However, they all knew that Rohani has no authority and that the real ...

November 4, 2014

Voice of America.... or Voice of the Ayatollahs?

The ayatollahs of the ISI, Islamic State in Iran, are well aware of the people’s discontent and are afraid of them. To make sure that people will not forget how brutal they are in protection of their revolution they routinely use fear tactics t...

October 4, 2014

Why Obama Refuses to support anti-Islamist, Secular Moslems

The war against Islamist terrorism has been going in the wrong direction, and the cancer has metastasized under the present administration. As we get rid of one Islamist tumor, more pop up. But the most dangerous of all Islamists are ruling Iran a...

July 1, 2014

The Land of Coup d'Etat

Iraq is not a country that was made through history or by the unification of a group of peoples.  The facts are that the Middle East of today was mapped out and subdivided by the British intelligence office after the fall of the Ottoman Empir...

February 28, 2014

Is Hassan Rohani a Moderate or a Ruthless Murderer?

The meetings, talks and negotiations with the new “moderate” Iranian president is continuing in Europe. President Obama and Secretary Kerry are insisting that the new moderate president of Iran will abide by the rules set by the Western p...

January 26, 2014

Why not a Third Option?

It is disappointing that the Obama administration sees only two options on the issue of Iran -- either war or appeasing and empowering the scheming clergy, who have been repeatedly proven untrustworthy over the last 35 years....

November 19, 2013

Is America no longer a Democracy?

As an immigrant, I come from where America is heading. I have seen, lived, and fled from a country where a small group can drag the large majority where they do not want to go. I have seen how a small group of ideologues succeeded in creating fe...

October 3, 2013

Obama is Weak and the Mullahs Know It

The mullahs of Iran are playing the game of the good cop, Moderates, and bad cop, Hardliners, with the present American administration, and unfortunately President Obama is so eager to prove his misguided statement of six years ago offering nego...

September 24, 2013

Khatami, Ahmadinedjad and Rohani: What's the Difference?

In 1997 there was an election ritual in Iran and the dear Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei anointed President Khatami. He was the first clergy of the Iranian ruling regime who smiled. American elites took a sigh of relief, called him the intelle...

February 4, 2013

Will John Kerry Stand with the Mullahs of Iran?

There was a ray of hope among Iranian-American human rights activists that, after four years of failed negotiations with Tehran, the Obama administration would see the light and adopt a new policy on Iran. After all, the negative IAEA reports against...

March 16, 2012

American Muslims and the Liberal Media Stereotype

When a group of us -- American Muslims -- went to New York City to voice the concerns of the silent majority and support the law enforcement there, we were confronted by the mainstream media's unabashed hostility. I was surprised at how some of them ...