As more detailed news reaches Iran about the disastrous Japan earthquake on March 11, the most powerful in the last century, and about the resultant

It is now clearer than ever that the opposition movement in Iran has two heads. One is the official loyal opposition within the regime, the

In the aftermath of the electoral coup in Iran, the push forward by the people to force the state authorities to submit to some accountability,

In the fog of the swift repression that followed the Iranian elections, and intensified in some American ‘leftist’ corners by commentaries about a CIA-led coup

More than a hundred years ago now, Iranians were as loudly as now present in the streets demanding constitutional governance, freedom from random harassment by

The actual results of the 2009 presidential elections in Iran may never be known factually. But the actual tallies of the votes cast may have

Searching for and finding similar instances of political brand making committed in wildly different settings and situations can be instructive. Followers of things Iranian may

In oppositional politics, there are different ways of arriving at ‘what is to be done’, both practically and theoretically. In the U.S., one frequently practiced

Roxana Saberi’s case has by now become internationally known: The very photogenic Iranian-American journalist, who for the six years before her arrest in January had

It is customary in an Iranian wedding ceremony, when asked, “Do you take this man?”, for the bride to not answer “Yes!” the first time

In an article titled, (Counterpunch, March 4, 2009), Marjorie Cohn, sets out clearly the role of two key figures in the drafting of a set

Thirty years ago, during the several months past, my generation was restructuring social life in Iran, breaking down government doors previously impervious to people’s demands,

In a recent policy paper by the New American Foundation (among whose board members sits Francis ‘End of History’ Fukuyama), it is argued that the

It is said that on 18 October 1967, nine days after Che was killed, Castro delivered a eulogy for Che, to a million people gathered

The U.S. military capabilities, personnel and hardware alike, having reached a stalemate in Iraq, are said to be increasingly more likely to be sent on

Those in the Iranian socialist opposition arguing for a nuclear-free Iran have either been absent from the Western left’s discourse or have been getting the

A majority of the U.S. citizens get zero political representation for the taxes they pay. Of the 49 percent of the population that does vote

Ho Chi Minh City — While traveling around Vietnam, you come across different kinds of western tourists. One staple of such a species is the

Do not worry if you are a Republican and you still hear utterances that annoy you coming from your left; it certainly is not from

It is pointless to merely and politely ask a living organism to cease to act as it does, of its own choosing. Would you or

Although most of humanity is localized, a better view into the general state of humanity is provided through a closer look at the conditions of

The Iranian political scene took a turn for the sour, when in the run-off presidential elections held on June 24 of this year, Iran’s number