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French President Emmanuel Macron called the protests in Iran a “revolution,” adding that the regime’s clampdown makes reviving the nuclear deal less likely. He also declared his support for sanctions against Iranian officials for their role in repressing the protests. In an interview with "Radio…

Because of the degree to which the United States’ behavior on human rights is politicized, it often seems like no other country has dealt more blows to this matter. It does so firstly through its excessive moralistic and public emphasis on the issue. Secondly, it makes too many deals with violators…

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…

The picturesque scenes on the island of Bali do not hide the black clouds gathering over the summit of the Group of Twenty, which starts its activities on Tuesday. In the past months, humanity has sent successive signals, revealing the extent of its fear for its security, economy, food,…

Europe these days reminds me of the early weeks of the pandemic: We are living with a sense that the end of the world is just around the corner. But this time, anxiety over Russia’s nuclear weapons has replaced talk of the virus. European media is plastered with grim headlines about energy…

The exposure of the falsehood of western principles is the best thing that has happened in recent years. If we had spent vast sums and exerted the greatest of efforts, none would have revealed that truth as it is now coming to light today. What the West has promoted for long decades was refuted…

True, the Midterms demonstrated that the United States is deeply divided. However, they also demonstrated the double standards in the US through the ideological struggle between Democrats and Republicans. For instance, we can take the battle over Elon Musk’s ownership of Twitter as an example, thus…

When the countries of Central and Eastern Europe gained their independence from what used to be the Soviet Union, it seemed that we had been looking at a historically unprecedented event: besides the collapse of a great empire, a dozen revolutions managed to realize their objective without any…

The possibility that the Covid pandemic started with a lab accident isn’t a conspiracy theory. Nor has science conclusively proven that it started in a Wuhan wet market. We simply don’t know — because China has set up numerous roadblocks to impede scientists’ ability to understand the origin of a…

With all the mushrooming battery technologies, it isn’t easy picking winners. However, the latest bold bet on the next new powerpack looks to have gone awry. The world’s biggest battery maker, Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., or CATL, unveiled the sodium-ion powerpack last year with much…

Late Tuesday night in Jerusalem, Itamar Ben-Gvir, the leader of the far-right Jewish Power Party, stood onstage triumphant before a raucous, ecstatic crowd. His supporters chanted, “Look who it is, the next prime minister!” as trance beats blared in the background. Mr. Ben-Gvir, in fact, had not…

The tears in his eyes didn’t conceal his anger and resentment of the humiliation he felt when the owner of a Lebanese bakery refused to sell him bread because he is Syrian. He raised his head, and looked at his sister, who asked him again: “returning where? Are you insane? Yes, life here is awful,…