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Woman, Life, Freedom: One Year Since the Death of Jhina Mahsa Amini and the Eruption of the Iranian Revolution

by Lily Bolourian • 21 September 2023

On September 16, 2022, Iranian security forces brutally killed Jhina Mahsa Amini for allegedly wearing her state-mandated hijab improperly on her head in the... Read More

Iran’s 24 World Heritage Sites Are Safe. Learn More about Five of Them.

by Innanoshe R. Akuson • 9 January 2020

The past few days may be remembered by historians and Americans in general as the most turbulent period of Donald Trump’s presidency. Facing an... Read More

A Certain Uncertainty: Brookings Holds Discussion on Recent Iranian Protests

by Evan Burt • 10 January 2018

Amid two weeks of protest in Iran, the Brookings Institution’s Center for Middle East Policy hosted Iranian-Canadian journalist and filmmaker Maziar Bahari in a... Read More

US Needs Political-Military Strategy to Moderate Iran’s Israel Policy

by Thomas Buonomo • 18 September 2017

Although US and Iranian diplomatic strategy compartmentalized the Iran nuclear negotiations in order to reduce the risk of failure on this priority issue, these... Read More

Humanists Must Enter the Middle East Policy Fray To Prevent War with Iran

by Thomas Buonomo • 23 June 2017

In February 2015 I wrote an op-ed for the Humanist titled “Religious Nationalism: A Weapon of Mass Destruction" in which I said that the conflicts... Read More

Iranian Cinema: Defiance and Creativity in the Face of Authoritarianism

by Jessica Xiao • 29 October 2015

Journalist and Middle Eastern cultural expert Diana Darke once wrote, “In Iran, they say there are two books in every household—the Koran and Hafez.... Read More

The Iran Nuclear Deal: Human Reason Triumphs over Greed and Corruption

by Efosa Akenzua • 20 July 2015

Make no mistake: President Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran is a historic victory for reason. On July 14, the Obama administration accomplished what no... Read More

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