Mojtaba Vahedi is a senior advisor to opposition cleric Mehdi Karroubi. Vahedi recently came to study in the United States and spoke to insideIRAN.org from Washington.

Q: How do you view the state of the opposition movement now? Is the Green Movement still capable of organizing large crowds and large demonstrations? more»

Keyhan Kasravi

BERLIN—Last week, the office of Tehran’s General and Revolutionary Courts announced that thirty individuals suspected of having been involved in organized cyber wars were arrested after a series of complicated intelligence operations in the field of communications technology. This followed a wave of attacks against anti-government websites and blogs by a group called Iran’s Cyber Army. more»

Rasool Nafisi

WASHINGTON—Browsing through the Iranian journals and listening to the current discourses in that country, one might be shocked to find out that a major debate is under way over whether the government is entitled to “cut the right arm and the left leg” of those opposing the regime. But such is the state of discourse in a country that enjoyed a century of secular life and a penal code largely copied from those in France and Belgium, before it became an Islamic state. more»

Jasim Husain Ali

Editor’s Note: Dr. Jasim Husain Ali, a member of the parliament in Bahrain, based this article on his high-level meetings with Iranian officials during his recent trip to Iran.

TEHRAN—Iran’s authorities blame anti-revolutionary forces for taking advantage of understandable grievances that erupted after the June 2009 presidential election to advance their own objectives to undermine the Islamic Republic. The goals include applying pressures on Iran to make concessions on its controversial nuclear program and to undermine the regime’s image domestically and internationally. The accused include the United States, Great Britain, and Saudi Arabia, as well as the People’s Mujahedeen Organization and groups that support the Shah’s dynasty. more»

Babak

TEHRAN—After the controversial June 12 presidential election, and the most critical days in the history of the Islamic Republic that followed, elders in various political parties and different factions believe that a unity plan is the only way out of the current crisis. more»