Latest in a series of developments in the Middle East, Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi travelled to Syria on Wednesday at the head of a delegation. Syria seems to now have an opportunity to return to the Arab League, rebuilding its identity as an Arab society. For years, this country has been a…

As the Iranian new year of 1401 is drawing to a close, grand developments are occurring in the region. It used to be that the final days of the year were politically calm. State and the nation would pay more attention to domestic and home affairs and not international relations. But the events of…

The developments known as the Arab Spring brought lack of stability, security and violence to a number of Arab countries and led to the fall of governments in Egypt, Yemen, Libya, Tunisia and Algeria. It prepared grounds for revival of the extremist organization Muslim Brotherhood and its coming to…

On Monday January 9, the Islamic Republic’s Supreme Leader spoke to a group of supporters of the regime. He repeated his previous condemnations of demonstrators and affirmed the punishments meted out to them by the Judiciary. These punishments have led to hurried death sentences for some…

In recent weeks, we’ve seen state murders, summons, interrogation, kidnapping, torture and deaths; none of which is new to the Iranian nation. What’s different is how common this has become and the oppressors can’t hide it anymore.   Now, instead of executing people in prison, they execute them…

Hossein Ronaghi’s life is endangered. Elham Afkari is in hunger strike. Dozens and hundreds of Iranians, well-known and unknown, are in detention, solitary confinement or hunger strikes. In the eight weeks that have passed, hundreds of Iranians have been killed with straight hits while…