Mohammad Reza Yazdanpanah
The U.S. State Department is preparing to announce its final decision on whether to remove the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK) from its list of foreign terrorist organizations. The decision is expected by the end of this month. more»
Editor’s note: Due to an error in posting on the website, an incorrect version of this interview was posted earlier today. Below is the corrected version. InsideIRAN interviewed Mark Fitzpatrick, a world-renowned nuclear expert who is the director of the non-proliferation and disarmament program at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, a London-based think tank. more»
Geneive Abdo
This article was first published in Foreign Affairs.
The Iranian regime is one of the few remaining allies of the embattled Syrian President, Bashar al-Assad. For years, the United States has tried to sever the ties between the two countries, but the current crisis has only pushed them closer together. more»
Kaveh Ghoreishi
The Party of Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK) and Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) are two factions opposing both Iranian and Turkish governments. For weeks, both groups have been under intense artillery and air strikes from Iran and Turkey. more»
Kaveh Ghoreishi
The recent incursion by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps into Iraq’s Kurdish territory may seem a little less shocking if you have heard threats made by senior Iranian officials, including a high-ranking general, who had promised that Iran would resume shelling Kurdish villages in Iraq in order to destroy PJAK, the Party of Free Life in Kurdistan. more»
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Shayan Ghajar
While the United States is downplaying fears that Iran is behind the unrest in neighboring Bahrain, Tehran’s warnings on March 15 indicated that the Islamic republic would not tolerate the presence of Saudi troops, which were deployed into the neighboring kingdom on March 14 to aid the Sunni minority against the Shiite uprising. more»
Shayan Ghajar
The political marginalization of one of Iran’s most prominent politicians, Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, took a turn for the worse on March 8, when he was forced to cede his seat as head of the Assembly of Experts, one of the government’s most powerful bodies, to rival Ayatollah Mohammad Reza Mahdavi Kani, a traditionalist cleric. more»
Shayan Ghajar
Reports from the websites of prominent Green Movement leaders Mir Hossein Moussavi and Mehdi Karroubi from February 27 and 28 indicate that both men and their spouses have been removed from their homes by government personnel and taken to Heshmatiyeh Prison in Tehran. more»