June 7, 2017

A Retrospective on the Iranian Elections

Although Hassan Rouhani failed to deliver any of his first-term promises as the president of the Islamic Republic (I.R.) of Iran, he was reinstated by voters in the May 19 election.  Apparently, he was elected for a second term because the choic...

February 19, 2017

Iranian Women, before and after the Islamist Takeover

Respect for women’s rights in Iran dates back to the ancient Persian Empire where it was common practice for women to serve as monarchs, army commanders, or naval officers. However, when the great empire was occupied by zealous followers of Isl...

September 22, 2016

Iran Sanctions Have Ended – and the Mass Executions Have Restarted

The crippling global sanctions on Iran cost the country hundreds of billions of dollars and decimated the economy. Inflation rose to over 40 percent and unemployment levels reached 33 percent. Consequently, the majority of citizens experienced an ast...

February 20, 2016

Post-Sanctions Iran: What Has Changed?

For the past 37 years, the excesses of the Islamic regime, both at home and abroad, have made the Islamic Republic and the Fundamentalist-Revolutionary establishment that brought it to power one of the most hated governments of all time, trying to su...

February 14, 2016

Another Bloody Year for the Islamic Republic of Iran

February 11 marked the thirty-seventh so-called Islamic revolution's anniversary in Iran.  Since then, more than 8 million Iranians have fled their homeland to escape the rule of terror and bloodshed.  I am among those who voted against...

January 2, 2016

What Can We Expect from Iran after the Sanctions Are Lifted?

The Iranian petroleum industry was a very effective organization before the so-called Islamic revolution in Iran in 1979.  The National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) was operated efficiently in all sectors of the industry, from upstream exploration...

March 9, 2015

Islamic Republic and women's rights in Iran

The eighth of March marked International Women’s Day across the world, a significant and jubilant day, but Iranian women who have been victims of the Islamic regime have nothing to celebrate. Prior to the Islamic revolution in 1979 in monarc...

February 11, 2015

Iran's Islamic Republic Turns 36 today

It has been a bloody 36 years since the Islamic regime came to power in Iran, February 11, 1979. No fewer than 8 million Iranians have fled their homeland, evidence of a horrid regime. When 8 million citizens abandon their homes, families, and everyd...

February 3, 2015

Nukes for Iran: A Legitimate Right of the People?

The officials of the Islamic Republic (I.R.) of Iran have mentioned, time and again, that “the Iranian nation has a legitimate right to enrich uranium.”  But every day, the Iranian “people” ask: is it viable and beneficia...

January 14, 2015

How Will Sanctions against Iran Change under a Republican Congress?

The nuclear program of the Islamic Republic (I.R.) has caused the West, particularly the United States (U.S.), much concern and anxiety.  Although the I.R. has had this program in motion for over a decade and has always claimed that it is for th...

January 11, 2015

Does 'Negotiating' Really Hinder Iran's Nuclear Program?

President Obama in his election campaigns in 2008 kept insisting that the only way to control rogue states was through direct “negotiation.”  After seven years, despite a lack of progress, he still advocates the use of diplomatic rhe...

January 7, 2015

Past Is Prologue: President Bush's Executive Order against Iran

To get a sense of how dangerous Iran’s nuclear program is, it is important to take a look at the Islamic Republic’s history. The disclosure and documentation of the Islamic Republic (I.R.) of Iran’s nuclear activities originally ...