UN sanctions in Iran's post-election era
The post-election crisis in Iran has revolutionised the potential for international pressure and civil action to work in harmony. Since Mahmoud Ahmadinejad came to power, three UN sanctions have been...
View ArticleObama's plan for Iran and Chinese resistance
Iran's fate rests on US relations with an emerging Chinese-Russian axis Despite the fact that the United States has since last year attempted to reach an agreement with both Russia and China to impose...
View ArticleArash Falasiri
Author: Arash Falasiri Arash Falasiri worked as a journalist in Iran for more than a decade. He won the national prize for the best journalist of the year in 2001. He is now a PhD candidate in Social...
View ArticleConnecting the dots: Iran's nuclear ambitions, human rights and intelligent...
The sanctions being imposed by the UN need to be reworked to inspire the confidence of Iran's suppressed people. This is an ironic period for Iranian society. While society prepares for the first...
View ArticleThe Iranian regime thrives on the spectre of military confrontation
The increasingly militarised confrontation between the United States, Israel and Iran only strengthens the Ahmadinejad regime's intransigence, allowing it to side step an ongoing crisis of legitimacy....
View ArticleGaddafi: a model for the middle east's "mad men"
Gaddafi's resistance to popular demands and violent response presents a new model for regimes to resist democratic uprisings with extreme violence, mercenary arms, and the suppression of...
View ArticleIran's Green Movement: decapitated but not defeated
The arrest of Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, the defeated presidential candidates and leaders of Iran's Green Movement marks a new phase of repression in Iran. But a leaderless movement may...
View ArticleIran's message in a bottle
Allegations of an Iranian assassination attempt to be carried out in Washington has prompted diverse responses and analyses. Here, Arash Falasiri depicts an Islamic Republic fighting for its life in...
View ArticleIranians' choice in the face of war
Signals that military action against Iran is a real danger have been multiplying over the past twelve months. Faced with external military intervention and internal repression, Arash Falasiri asks what...
View ArticleReaping the political rewards of the Iranian nuclear crisis
Both Iranian and Israeli governments mutually benefit from the threat of war, as they both use the excuse to polish their propaganda and to silence internal opposition.Although on the surface it would...
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Iran nuclear deal: the fall-out
The interim nuclear deal between the western powers and Iran faces significant domestic and international challenges. But after long hostility it may prove a trust-building stepping-stone to a larger...
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Harper’s discordant notes
Unlike the US, Canada has always had a positive reputation in the strife-tone Middle East as an impartial broker and peacemaker. Until now.They liked what they heard: Benjamin and Sara Netanyahu...
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The new Russian power bloc
A quarter century after Mikhail Gorbachev supervised the collapse of Europe’s cold-war division, a world of new dividing lines is emerging—with Vladimir Putin playing an active part in inscribing...
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Obama's human-rights lacuna in struggle against ‘extremism’
The US president went on the front foot against fundamentalist violence in the Middle East at a summit in Washington. But he was hobbled by his failure to place human rights in the region front and...
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Iran behind the conciliatory veil
Right-wing US and Israeli venom against the outline agreement is one thing; genuine concern about the Islamic regime’s Shia expansionism and human-rights record is however another.As Iran and the...
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