In this connection, Ali Akbar Nateq-Nouri recently announced in an interview with ‎Etemad Melli’s weekly journal that it was necessary for moderate forces from both ‎camps to unite and elect a person who is acceptable to the country’s Supreme Leader …

They call me, and others like me, anti-Velayat Faghih (Velayat Faghih in Shiite political ‎terminology means the rule of the cleric, the cleric as the head of state). This is true, but ‎if “melting” in Velayat (a term used by die-hard supporters of …

Sixty years have passed since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was approved. ‎The declaration is the beginning of a new broad global initiative. Extensive research and ‎constructive debates have been raged over it at the global level.‎ Even …

Iranian newspapers have announced the end of the examination of the ‎amendments to the presidential election law. ‎ ‎ ‎ According to Kargozaran newspaper, “The Majlis leadership continued to refrain ‎from resolving ambiguities surrounding …

These days, the cities of our country have once again become the playing field for the ‎armed masked military-security mafia groupes. The streets are the scenes of show force ‎and a violent band whose judges - the likes of Mortezavi - have a criminal …

While security agents under the command of Minister of Science Dr Mohammad Mehdi ‎Zahedi – whose PhD cannot be 100 percent certain under the present circumstances - ‎were violently driving university students out of their campus, this ever-fleeing …

At a large shopping center in Paris, a Muslim cleric wearing a black robe with a white turban, ‎commonly known as a Hajji, caught my attention. He was intensely engaged in a conversation ‎with a salesperson at a perfumery, as he purchased perfumes …

Amir Mohebian is a prominent journalist and ideologue of right wing politics in Iran. ‎Rooz spoke with him about the tenth presidential elections next year, the ninth ‎administration’s role in uniting conservatives, and the potential candidates on …

Ahmadinejad’s 10-year-old daughter was sitting next to her mother watching her daddy’s speech ‎at the United Nations and in the interviews in America. Her mommy also was staring at the ‎television with a wide open mouth. Finally, …

Reading and watching President Ahmadinejad’s interviews in the United States, a few ‎general observations stand out. The first is what the Iranian government and its associates ‎thought of the interviews which is that the president spoke with an …

I predict that when Iran’s president Mahmud Ahmadinejad returns to Iran after his stay in ‎New York, he will need a nose job. This is because I doubt if there is another president in ‎the history of mankind who has uttered so many lies in one day. He …

These days Iran is so embroiled in such economic and unjust conditions that it is difficult ‎to even begin to priorities its social crises. Among these problems, poverty among ‎women is one of the most serious ones. So searching for a solution to …

These days, the defense of our Bahai brethren has turned into a justification to attack ‎Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi. But this is a worn-out excuse which in fact carries ‎other goals. Still, this is not the subject of this writing. The issue is …

Iran’s official government news agency (IRNA) accused Shirin Ebadi and her daughter, who is a ‎university student at Canada’s McGill University, of belonging to the Bahai religious sect. ‎Regardless of other accusations that have also been …

The recent efforts in Tehran to normalize relations with Washington have been met with ‎cynicism by some opponents of the regime. By pointing to the events and conditions that ‎led Iran to accept UN Security Council cease-fire resolution #598 that …

The news coming from Iran was no different from earlier ones: banning a person from ‎leaving the country, arresting another one, executing a third one, etc. In this light, the ‎arrest of Saman Rasoolpoor was not really surprising. Nor were the …

I used to think that this new Renaissance around the world would change anything for ‎mankind, but during the last six months things have really changed: Fidel Castro is no ‎longer in power, Putin is no longer the president of Russia, Berlusconi and …

Houshang Amirahamdi, president of the Iranian-American Council, in an interview ‎conducted with “Rooz” from his hotel in Tehran discussed the Ahmadinejad ‎Administration’s willingness to normalize relations with America. Below is …

The secretary for Iran’s National Security Council Saeed Jalili recently said that “Every ‎country has its own way for attaining democracy.” This assertion is of course correct to a ‎large extent. For example take the criticism that a journalist, an …

There was a custom in the days prior to the 1979 revolution in Iran because ‎of which the press used the word “deceived” instead of “raped” or ‎‎“trespassed”. Censorship required it, and so it was done. When some body ‎was raped, they simply wrote …

The plan to boost public morality is implemented with more ferocity. The city is filled with ‎‎”Zareis.” General Zareis, before arrest, while observing Friday prayers of nude women.‎ Back then, we, as people who had to answer for the way …