Iranian Revolution

'Shahs Of Sunset': Meet The Outrageous GG

Posted 03.12.2012

Read More: TV Canada, Gg, Video, Reality TV, Reza, Iranian Revolution, Series-Premiere, Bravo, Tv Replay, Shahs of Sunset, Persians, Iranians, TV News

Bravo's latest reality series, "Shahs of Sunset" (Sun., 10 p.m. EST On Bravo), bears a close resemblance to the network's "Real Housewives" franchise,...

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Poking a Stick in the Hornet's Nest of Iran

Rizwan A. Rahmani | Posted 04.21.2012

Read More: Anglo Iranian Oil Company, Iran, Iranian Nuclear Program, Bp, Cia, Iranian Revolution, Shah of Iran, Strait of Hormuz, Anglo Persian Oil Company, Reza Shah, mi6, Oil, Savak, Israel, Mossadeq, World News
Rizwan A. Rahmani

When I visited Iran in the late '70s, only months before the Iranian revolution, some of the things I saw took on a different light after the overthro...

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A Critic Of Political Islam Warns Of 'Misguided' West

Ida Lichter, M.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Islam, Iranian Revolution, Islamophobia, Islamists, Sharia Law, Sharia Courts Canada, Arab Spring, Islamic Republic of Iran, Maryam Namazie, Sharia Courts Britain, Homa Arjomand, Guadeloupe Conference, Muslim Women, Islamism, Secular Muslim Activism, Political Islam, Secular Muslims, Religion News
Ida Lichter, M.D.

Maryam Namazie is a powerful voice against political Islam, but she is a lapsed Muslim and Westernized. Is she disqualified from the debate and are her warnings relevant to the West?

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The Trials of an Educator in Iran

Anthony Vance | Posted 11.09.2011

Read More: Baha'i, Iran, Human Rights, Higher Education, Mahmoud Badavam, Bihe, Iranian Revolution, World News
Anthony Vance

If planning with others to educate young people can in some contorted worldview equate with conspiracy against national security, I suppose Mahmoud Badavam is guilty as charged.

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Iranian Nobel Peace Prize Winner: Too Early to Talk of "Arab Spring" Until Women Gain Rights

Steve Kettmann | Posted 10.29.2011

Read More: World Peace Conference, Women's Rights, Women, Libya, World Peace Festival, Nobel Peace Prize, Muammar Gaddafi, Iranian Revolution, Nobel Laureates, Iran, Arab Spring, World News
Steve Kettmann

Shirin Ebadi offered a cautionary note about progress in the Muslim World over the weekend at the inaugural World Peace Conference in Berlin, the culmination of a weeklong World Peace Festival.

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LIVE Q&A: Ask An Iranian Dissident Anything

The Huffington Post | Jake Bialer | Posted 11.12.2011

Read More: Iran, Islamic Republic of Iran, Iranian Revolution, Omid Habibinia, Iranian Election, Iran Protests, World News

Omid Habibinia is an Iranian dissident who is currently living in Switzerland. Born in Iran, he studied Media, Clinical Psychology and Global Studies,...

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Muslim Women's Self-reliance and Clinton's Guidance Could Ensure Reforms

Ida Lichter, M.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt, Muslim Women's Rights, Muslim Brotherhood, President Ahmadinejad, Michelle Bachelet, Sharia Law, Tunisia Revolution, Un Women, Iran, Egypt Revolution, Middle East, Iranian Revolution, Muslim Women, Tunisia, Radical Islam, Tunisia Uprising, National Liberation Front Party, Afghanistan, Hillary Clinton, Algeria, World News
Ida Lichter, M.D.

In this crucial post-coup stage, women who fought for change should heed the betrayals of gender rights in Algeria and Iran during periods of crisis.

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Tales Of Pan Am: A 'Forrest Gump' Life

Helen Davey | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Iranian Revolution, Pan Am, Tales of Pan Am, ABC Pan Am, Healthy Living News
Helen Davey

As I watch the news about the erupting chaos in Egypt, Libya and Bahrain on television, my present life as a psychoanalyst fades into the background, and my past life comes to the fore.

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Bahrain: Two Seas, Two Sects

Lauren Vriens | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: King Hamad, Middle East Protests, Iranian Revolution, Bahrain Protests, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Shia, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Pearl Roundabout, Sunnis, World News
Lauren Vriens

Some observers say this clash has its roots in a geo-religious power struggle between Shia Iran and Sunni Saudi Arabia; the more likely story is one of tension between the "haves" and the "have-nots."

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The Long Goodbye: Mubarak and the Shah

Scott MacLeod | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cairo Protests, Egypt Protests, President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Shah of Iran, Egypt Revolution, Iranian Revolution, Sharm El-Sheikh, Tahrir Square, Hosni Mubarak, Gamal Mubarak, World News
Scott MacLeod

In Tahrir Square, the feeling came over me: Egypt is another Iran. I don't mean in the sense that Egypt's revolution will bring a radical, Islamist regime into power.

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Why Egypt Will Not Turn Into Another Iran

Stephen Zunes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt Protests, Egypt, Iran, Iranian Revolution, Muslim Brotherhood, Egyptian Protests, Nonviolent Action, Israel, Democracy, Hosni Mubarak, World News
Stephen Zunes

The difference between Egypt today and Iran of the late 1970s is striking. There is virtually no chance that Egypt will take such a tragic turn should the revolution succeed.

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Is The Prophet A Founding Father?

Deepak Chopra | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Muhammad, Islamic Extremism, Founding Fathers, Religious Conservatives, Hamas, Bernard Lewis, Egypt Protests, Saddam Hussein, Islam, Iranian Revolution, Muslim Brotherhood, Egyptian Religion, Egyptian Protests, Religion News
Deepak Chopra

Muhammad cannot be kept out of Arab politics. The Westward-looking elites in the Arab world are secular -- even Saddam was secular -- but they hold power by brutal means.

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Obama's Woodrow Wilson Moment

Kate Seelye | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Arab World, Cairo Protests, Egypt Protests, Project-on-Middle-East-Democracy, Iranian Revolution, Muslim Brotherhood, Political Islam, Democratization, 14 Points of Light, World News
Kate Seelye

In the context of unfolding events in Egypt and throughout the region, Woodrow Wilson offers an important lesson for President Obama and his administration.

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The Tunisian Revolt: Learning From the Mistakes of the Iranian Revolution

Abolhassan Bani-Sadr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt Protests, Iranian Revolution, Tunisia, Egypt, Middle East Dictators, Tunisia Protests, Iran, Middle East Democracy, Tunisia Riots, World News
Abolhassan Bani-Sadr

The people in the streets who toppled the regime should not think for a moment that their work is done.

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Did the Shah Perform Better or Have the Ayatollahs?

Camelia Entekhabi-Fard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Shah, Iran, Ayatollah Khamenei, Revolution, Iranian Revolution 1979, Iranian Revolution, World News
Camelia Entekhabi-Fard

Many youths in Iran born after the 1979 revolution base their impression of Iran as a monarchy on what they have read or heard, and are therefore often sympathetic to Iran's era of monarchy.

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Iran's Priority and Aim for 2011

Camelia Entekhabi-Fard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iran, Nuclear, Foreign Policy, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iranian Revolution, North Korea Nuclear Program, Iran Nuclear Program, Motakki, World News
Camelia Entekhabi-Fard

Replacing Iran's Foreign Minister, a quiet man who practiced a more conservative diplomacy than Iran's "fiery" president, is the first step Iran will take to reduce tension over its nuclear program.

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Iran's Women: Canaries in the Coal Mine

Azar Nafisi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Women's Rights, Iran Human Rights, Islamic Republic of Iran, Iran Women's Rights, Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, Iranian Revolution, Iranian Women, Sakineh, Iran Stoning, Shiva Nazar Ahari, Iran Women, Neda Agha Soltan, Iran Green Movement, Neda, Mohammad Javad Larijani, World News
Azar Nafisi

Iranian women have once more become the standard by which degrees of freedom can be measured. Their resistance will not only shape Iran's future, but have far-reaching effects on Muslim countries and the way Islam is defined.

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Shiism, Nationalism, and the Past Clash in Modern Iran

Jamsheed K. Choksy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iran, Iran Islam, Iranian Nationalism, Iran News, Iranian Revolution, Iranian Government, Iran President, Shiite Muslims, World News
Jamsheed K. Choksy

A revival of Iranian nationalism is generating confrontation not just between Iran's two traditions of state and faith, but between those within the ruling class who champion secularism versus those who still espouse theocracy

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World's Worst Books Job?

kansascity.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Banned Book Week, Iranian Revolution, Censoring, Iran Election, Banned Books, Iran, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Islamic Republic of Iran, Censors, Banned Books Week, Iran Protests, Iranian Election 2009, Internet Censorship, Censorship, Banned Book, Books News

According to government figures, there are about 7,000 publishing firms in Iran today. Even if only 1,000 of those publishers delivers five books a ye...

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The CIA And WMDs: A Discussion Of The Damning Evidence

The New York Review of Books | Fulton Armstrong, reply by Thomas Powers | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Why Intelligence Fails, Thomas Powers, Cia, George Tenet, Iraq War, National Intelligence Council, How They Got Their Bloody Way, Iranian Revolution, New York Review of Books, Wmds, Books News

The following letter, by a former US intelligence officer, was sent in response to Thomas Powers's review of Robert Jervis's Why Intelligence Fails: L...

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Reality Check: Understanding the Mujahedin-e Khalq

Ali Safavi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Icrc, John F. Kennedy, Islam, President Obama, Irgc, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Ali Khamenei, United Nations, Khomeini, Thomas Jefferson, Iraq, United States, Department of State, Iran, Nelson Mandela, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Abraham Lincoln, Iranian Revolution, Sahifey-E Noor, Massoud Rajavi, World News
Ali Safavi

There has not been a single credible and independently verifiable finding that the MEK ever targeted any civilians or non-combatants. This is why the Iranian mullahs have fabricated cases against it.

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Religion Matters In International Relations

Monica Duffy Toft | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Catholic Church, Islam, Religion, Iranian Revolution, Foreign Affairs, Religion and Politics, Vatican II, Foreign Policy, Religion News
Monica Duffy Toft

Ignorance of different religious traditions in global geopolitics is everyone's enemy, and it is going to exacerbate two increasingly vital issues in the years ahead.

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Don't Forget the Plight of Iranian Balochs

Saad Khan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Abdul Malik Rigi, Jundallah Rebels, Iran Human Rights, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iranian Revolution, Balochistan, World News
Saad Khan

The Iranian regime, with its iron-fist, has ensured a superficial calm in the Sistan & Baluchestan province; however, underneath this calm, there is massive unrest and frustration pervading.

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Ayatollah Khamenei's Jet Checked, Iran Supreme Leader May Flee To Russia If Necessary (UPDATED)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Russia, Ayatollah Khamenei, Politics, Iran Supreme Leader, Iranian Revolution, World, Iranian Protests, Protests, Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, World News

Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei could flee to Russia should the situation in his country continue to spiral out of control, accordin...

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A Soft Power Opportunity for Iran

Kevin Sullivan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hezbollah Lebanon, Lebanon, Yemen, Iranian Revolution, Quds Force, Iranian-Revolutionary-Guard-Quds, Houthis, Hezbollah, Iran, Hamas, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Qods Force, Riyadh-Saudi Arabia, Iranian-Revolutionary-Guard, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Tehran, Israel, Saada, Sana'A, Iranian Revolutionary Guard (Quds), Al-Qaeda, Irgc, Al Qaeda, Smart Power, Islamic Republic of Iran, Middle East, Soft Power, Mideast, Shia, Shi'a Militias, Shiites, World News
Kevin Sullivan

In the neighboring country of Yemen, a very real opportunity to make good on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's promise of friendship is rapidly emerging for Iran.

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