TEHRAN, Iran — Iran's embattled opposition leaders accused the government of becoming more brutal than the shah's regime in Web statements Satur...
Melody Moezzi | Posted 09.14.2009 | World
With increasing accounts of rape, torture, forced confessions and skewed judicial proceedings, the Iranian government is losing any credibility it had left, including any legitimate claim to Islam.
Melody Moezzi | Posted 08.29.2009 | World
With each death at the hands of the regime, a martyr is born, and with each martyr, the seed of revolution is planted.
Melody Moezzi | Posted 08.25.2009 | World
Thanks to their new duties, which include increasingly violent and inhumane acts, reports of Basiji taking protesters up on their invitations to join the opposition movement are growing.
Melody Moezzi | Posted 08.16.2009 | World
At the heart of Iran's Islamic Revolution was a stencil duplicator and a tape recorder. These were the Ayatollah Khomeini's Facebook and Twitter.
Elizabeth Shakman Hurd | Posted 07.30.2009 | World
Today's protests are different. This is not about the West. It is about which revolutionary political camp will prevail in 2009 and a path that rejects the "secularism versus political Islam" dichotomy.
Norman Solomon | Posted 07.26.2009 | Politics
When approaching Iran, the Republican Party line and the Hugo Chavez line are running in opposite directions -- but parallel.
Sanjeev Bery | Posted 07.24.2009 | Media
Somehow, CNN.com is bestowing positive coverage upon the Shah and his son without once acknowledging the repressive practices of the Shah's regime.
McClatchy News | Posted 07.24.2009 | World
The former crown prince of Iran on Monday urged foreign leaders to condemn more forcefully the Iranian regime's crackdown on more than a week of mass ...
Sanjeev Bery | Posted 07.23.2009 | Media
While tempting, the calls to get tougher with the Iranian government fail to consider the legacy of 25 years of U.S. intervention against Iranian democracy.
Gina Nahai | Posted 07.19.2009 | World
Can it be that the end of its third decade is also the death knell of the Islamic Revolution?
John Wellington Ennis | Posted 07.10.2009 | Politics
Short-sighted greedy goals end up causing long-term world problems. If Iran was not alienated from Western nations, how different would our geo-political world look today?
Chris Weigant | Posted 07.06.2009 | World
This is an interesting and refreshing subtext in Obama's entire speech -- he says things are "facts" and not opinions. Considering the lunacy that passes for "political debate" on American television screens -- where there are always two points of view, and every "fact" is subject to spin from one side or another -- it is a breath of fresh air.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 04.24.2009 | World
Obama's promise of a new day in U.S.-Iranian relations must be given the opportunity to bear fruit free from outside intervention.
AP | ALI AKBAR DAREINI and JASON KEYSER | Posted 11.14.2009 | World