One step the United States and its allies could pursue would send a strong message to Tehran and at the same time have a tangible impact on U.S. security: Press allies to restrict the size of Iranian missions to the minimum needed to…
Tehran initially viewed the rise of the Islamist Justice and Development Party (AKP) in Turkey with much enthusiasm. It has turned into a nightmare. Turkey's shift against the Assad regime in Syria, and its manifest ideological appeal in a…
Toppling of Muammar Gaddafi regime and his murder has turned Libya into a NATO "protectorate" and the next targets of the United States and NATO would be Syria and Iran, the CPI(M) has said.
British officials consider contingency options to back up a possible US action as fears mount over Tehran's capability.
Sussan Tahmasebi returned to her native Iran in 1999 for what she thought was a quick trip to reconnect with her roots, but she ended up staying for nearly 10 years, helping develop civil society to defend women’s rights.
Quirky though it was, U.S. officials are convinced that the recently exposed plot to assassinate the Saudi Ambassador to Washington was the work of the vaunted Quds Force, the special operations branch of the Iran's Islamic Revolutionary…
As the world witnesses the Syrian and Iranian regimes commit countless human rights abuses and, in Iran’s case, move ever closer to perfecting its nuclear capabilities, there’s a common belief that, short of military intervention, there’s…
It's not often that the issue of polygamy makes it to the top of the political agenda. But in the past week it's become a litmus test for the course of the Arab spring, and part of the debate about the compatibility of Islam and democracy.…
All of us and under different pretexts have repeatedly spoken on the structural political obstacles of the Islamic republic of Iran and the weaknesses of the current constitution for attaining some levels of democracy and respect for human…
The prospect of a U.S. pullout from Iraq at the end of this year is stoking fears among Washington's Middle East allies that Iran will profit from a diminished American military presence in the region. Baghdad's political leadership,…
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