Hostile and undiplomatic action by Harper Government against Iranians is not acceptable After the election results were announced in Iran and Rouhani was elected as the seventh president, the Harper Government made another mistake by harshly criticizing the government while millions of Iranians had participated in the election and celebrated it ... Continue reading »
Hassan Rouhani's unexpected victory in this weekend's Iranian election has sent Israeli hasbara into a tailspin.
The desire for an Iranian bogeyman is so intense in the warmongering mainstream of Israeli and neoconservative discourse that any attempt to mask their pre-election desires and post-election frustration has been futile.
Their entire ... Continue reading »
by Shiva Balaghi
Do not just look at the pictures of Iranians celebrating late into the night in Tehran’s streets. Listen, they are singing Yar-e Dabestani-ye Man [My Grade School Friend]. This old Iranian protest song has become the unofficial anthem of the student movement.
Tyranny’s welt on our flesh
Has not faded with time
The fields of our ... Continue reading »
Excerpted from “Dollarocracy: How the Money and Media Election Complex is Destroying America”
One key factor that has altered campaign coverage comes from the corporate right in the form of “conservative” media. If there has been a vacuum created by the downsizing of newsrooms, conservative media have filled it with an insistent partisanship uns ... Continue reading »
Until three days ago, many among the scholars and experts of Iran argued that the presidential elections in the country had become an uninteresting matter. The crisis in 2009, caused by the suspicions of electoral fraud to favor President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's reelection, played down the observers' enthusiasm about the possibility of an electoral c ... Continue reading »
The pragmatism of young Iranians who voted for a cleric and bureaucrat with whom they have hardly anything in common is astonishing.
They likely voted for him to avoid a dangerous confrontation with the West and perhaps remove America’s crippling sanctions. They also voted for him because they want democracy.
We believe this because last year ... Continue reading »
Hassan Rouhani's stunning and sweeping victory in the Iranian presidential election is already generating much debate among expert Iran-watchers about how to interpret this outcome. There are different views, for example, on what inference should be drawn regarding the posture of Supreme Leader Khamenei toward the election. Was this outcome one tha ... Continue reading »
The civil war in Syria has been devastating, generating a death toll fast approaching 100,000, while uprooting millions of civilians from their homes.
But as the US and Russia signed an unprecedented accord on Wednesday in search of a political solution to an increasingly intractable conflict, its underlying causes in a fatal convergence of energ ... Continue reading »
Just when the world had given up hope for meaningful change in Iran, the country's presidential election produced a surprise. Rather than a repeat of the 2009 conservative victory, the token reformist candidate, Hasan Rowhani, whose campaign called for moderation at home and constructive relations with the world, defied the odds to win a clear majo ... Continue reading »
London, Asharq Al-Awsat—After almost three decades at the top of Iran’s national security apparatus, including a stint as Iran’s representative in negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program with representatives of the UN Security Council and Western powers, the Iranian cleric Hassan Rouhani is now running for the presidency of the Islamic Republic.
F ... Continue reading »
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