The result of Iran’s upcoming presidential election” is related not just to normal domestic feuds, division of spoils, and concerns about the level of discontent in society, but also to the regime’s international policies,” says a leading analyst.
“No …
Iranian hard-liners are pressing for two prominent candidates to be barred from contesting next month’s presidential election “in a further sign of intense political jockeying over the final ballot list,” AP reports:
The appeal by nearly 100 parliament …
Death threats from government security services have forced Iran’s most prominent labor union leader into exile.
Mansur Osanlu, the head of the Tehran bus workers’ union, told RFE/RL’s Golnaz Esfandiarithat the Islamic republic is becoming more repressive “day by …
“An adviser to Iran‘s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei joined the presidential race on Friday, with powerful conservatives keen to make the June vote a peaceful contrast to the upheaval that followed the disputed 2009 poll,” Reuters reports…
Iranian authorities today deployed Special Forces to break up a strikers’ blockade, as workers used today’s May Day international holiday celebrating the dignity of labor to demand better wages at a time of spiraling inflation.
The Islamic Republic …
The United States should give a higher priority to advancing global religious freedom as a matter of national security, says a major new survey. The persecution of people of faith is inherently dangerous because it has the effect of …
Britain, France and Israel all believe the regime of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad has crossed President Barack Obama’s “red line” and used chemical weapons against rebels in the country’s civil war. But the administration has yet to be unconvinced …
Screening & Discussion
Maziar Bahari, Journalist and Filmmaker
Joel Simon, Committee to Protect Journalists
in conversation with
Jon Stewart, Political Satirist
As Iran nears elections in June, the government has launched renewed assaults on the media with …
Is a combination of economic sanctions and elite-infighting undermining Iran’s Islamic Republic?
“The conditions for regime change exist today in Iran,” says Mansour Osanloo (right), the leader of Tehran’s bus workers’ union and one of Iran’s most respected labor leaders. …
“The Obama administration warned Friday that nations such as Iran, Russia and Venezuela are turning up pressure on human rights other activists, decrying what it described as a global crackdown on the ‘lifeblood of democratic societies,’” the Associated Press …