For most of the last two decades, I felt strange when I was asked if my sons speak Farsi. When it was too late to

I was shocked when I read that George Bush advised the graduates at a college the other day to “act responsibly” in their adult life.

Bam 6.6, a documentary about the Bam earthquake of 2003 in Iran, is finally readied for release on DVD. Here’s my interview with the producer/director,

Dear Editors of to Monthly Review, In a recent posting on [iranian.com &] your web site, Rostam Pourzal uses an anonymous email by a ‘witness’

If imitation is the highest form of flattery, Iran must really adore the American model of state conduct. Contrary to popular perceptions, the decision-makers in

On May 26, 2006, a representative of the violent Iranian fugitives based in Iraq, known as MEK, addressed a forum – an anti-war forum –

Dear Shirin Ebadi, The appeal you and Mohammad Sahimi addressed to “Western democracies” on January 19 [“Defusing Iran with democracy”] disappointed this former admirer of

The Muslim uproar against the publication of offensive cartoons has elicited calls from respectable Western opinion to defend freedom of the press. Empathetic voices here

My denunciation in July of the Iranian reformists' zeal for privatization and deregulation elicited mail from readers who asked just what was wrong with setting

The prevailing spin on Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's rise to Iran's presidency wrongly suggests that a win for his rivals could have ushered a dawn of enlightenment.

It is said that when a British reporter asked what he thought of Western Civilization, anti-colonial campaigner Mahatma Gandhi dismissively replied, “It would be a

The following was intended as a letter to the editor of The Washington Post to comment on “Iranian Americans Join to Promote Political Activism” dated