Omid Memarian, an Iranian journalist, has helped Human Rights Watch document the post-election violence in Iran. In an interview with insideIRAN.org. Memarian shared his thoughts on the current situation of human rights in Iran and the international community’s responsibility to shed light on the matter. more»

Shane M.

TEHRAN—The notion that only a certain category of Iranians would be drawn to political Islam, routinely expressed in U.S. and European press accounts and expressed in virtually all Western political debate, is based on a mistaken and outdated understanding of Iran—one that is more 1979 than 2009. more»

Hossein Askari

WASHINGTON—Iran analysts recently have focused on Tehran’s economic vulnerability as the system’s Achilles’ heel. They are right on this point. But they, and a clear majority of Iranians, are wrong in believing that sanctions are the reason for Iran’s dismal economic conditions. more»

The following is an interview InsideIRAN.org conducted with Dr. Davoud Hermidas-Bavand, a renowned political scientist in Tehran who is a retired professor from Tehran University. more»

Farideh Farhi

HONOLULU –While in the past few weeks, the world’s attention has been on the interim agreement over the transfer of Iran’s enriched uranium to Russia, Iran’s domestic scene has been consumed with the fate of subsidy reform proposed by the Ahmadinejad administration and mulled over by the Parliament. more»