World News Insights: Opinion Articles

“The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming” is a 1966 American film narrating the Cold War tension with the story of a Soviet submarine that got stuck on a sandbar off the coast of New England. “The Chinese are coming”, however, is what a hotel receptionist told me to justify the lack of…

Almost three months after the current popular uprising against the Islamic Republic started in Iran, three things are clear. The first is that even if the uprising hits an interlude to recuperate, as is often the case with such movements it is unlikely to simply fade away. It has mobilized…

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa was accused of being implicated in financial corruption after an estimated 4 to 5 million dollars were stolen from his farm. Ramaphosa played an honorable role, alongside the iconic Nelson Mandela, in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa. He…

The eyes of the world are on the Saudi capital Riyadh today. Chinese President Xi Jinping is a guest of the Saudi people as he begins his three-day state visit, during which he will attend three summits, not one. Thirty heads of state and heads of international organizations will take part. What is…

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…

Contradictory reports have been coming out of Iran over the past 48 hours. On the one hand, we saw reports claiming that the Mullah regime has dissolved the so-called morality police and will make recommendations on making changes to the law mandating the veil within two weeks. On the other hand,…

The Arab-Chinese States Summit in Riyadh comes at a time when the world is witnessing significant political and economic changes and major conflicts, just as Iraq emerges from a difficult political period. Therefore, Iraqi participation in this summit is of particular importance, as this would be…

Three hundred years ago, leaders of three British colonies and representatives of the Indigenous nations known as the Haudenosaunee Confederacy gathered in Albany, N.Y., to sign what is the oldest continuously recognized treaty in colonial American and United States law. They sought to resolve a…

The problem is not Mahsa Amini, and the solution is not abolishing the morality police that killed her. The regime currently in power in Iran has faced several difficult economic and political challenges since Khomeini’s coup in the seventies. However, it overcame them. Its principal institutions…

Iran’s decision to abolish the so-called morality police - which we have no way of verifying - and a few state agencies reviewing the mandatory veil law represent a hopeless attempt similar to what many other regimes have taken before falling. It is too little too late. Neither the scale of…

I read an article recently about a 100-year-old doctor named Howard Tucker who is still practicing medicine in Cleveland. Dr. Tucker began working as a neurologist in 1947, when Harry Truman was president. Though he is obviously an extreme example, Dr. Tucker represents an important…

The developments in Iran concern the region and the world. Yes, changing the regime concerns the Iranian people alone, but Iran is involved in international tensions and immersed in several maps in the region. The people of the region want to see an Iranian state that respects recognized…