Since some years ago a number of Iranian leaders had declared their intention follow ‎China’s approach to human rights and through it, justify Iran’s violations of the same.‎ But with o er thirty years of the Chinese model, Iran with a population …

Omid Memarian Hushang Amir Ahmadi, an Iranian scholar, a professor at Rutgers University in New ‎Jersey and president of the American-Iranian Council, traveled to Iran last February to ‎talk with Iranian officials about relations with the US. Read on …

Iran is a country which requires the monitoring of the international community regarding ‎developments related to women’s struggle for equality. There are several reasons for ‎such a need. ‎

It was written in the news that, during her latest visit to the Middle East, the U.S. ‎Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, asked the Israeli government to take effective ‎measures to improve the living conditions of Palestinians. She also asked the …

In his most recent public speech, Mr. Khamenei has said, “After a passage of thirty years ‎since the victory of the Islamic revolution, the advance of the Iranian nation, particularly the ‎youth, towards the ideals and their progress in this regard …

The Iranian website known as “The Feminist School” was yet another media outlet that ‎was banned by Iranian authorities last year. Prior to that, a number of websites run by ‎women activists engaged in anti discrimination and justice issues were also …

In Baghdad, Mr. Ahmadinejad told reporters, “Visiting Iraq without the dictator is very ‎enjoyable.” This is a fitting statement but with one caveat: Any place without a dictator is ‎enjoyable, especially Iran nowadays. So for whatever reason Mr. …

If we have not learned anything during the past 30 years, we certainly have learned that ‎empty vessels make the most noise. So anyone who shouts “morals, morals” or “Islam, ‎Islam” the loudest is hiding something. But what Mr Zarei has done - …

Has the number of honor killings targeting women increased in the years following the ‎‎1979 Islamic revolution? If so, what factors have contributed to this rise in numbers? No ‎definite answers can be given to this question. The Iranian judiciary …

The actress playing the role of the famed French singer, Edith Piaf, received two prestigious international ‎awards in the past few days: the Cesar Award and an Oscar. But it would not be an exaggeration to say that ‎what aroused the “pride” of the …

Iran and the US both have important elections forthcoming. But important differences ‎exist between the two. Let’s take a look.‎

It is widely thought that Iranians have accepted - at least in the political realm - that their ‎choices in the forthcoming parliamentary elections on March 14, 2008 are limited to ‎picking between the lesser of two evils. However, Iranian people are …

Once upon a time, Tehran’s sky was blue. Once upon a time, prison was a place for ‎criminals and political dissidents were tried in military tribunals. Comprised of educated ‎judges, the country’s judicial system would not allow for the unjust trial …

In one of his recent public speeches, Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called ‎French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who incidentally did not get into the presidential ‎palace through the “complex and multi-layered presidential operations” like his …

‎Despite earlier announcements by government officials that next year’s budget would be ‎anti-inflationary and that the development credit allocations would not go beyond last ‎year’s figures, in his most recent trip to the Ardebil President …

‎During the period ranging from December 2006 to December of 2007, tens of human ‎rights violations have taken place in Iran. And on the eve of the International Human ‎Rights Day, a young man was hung to death in Iran on charges that he had …

‎Despite earlier announcements by government officials that next year’s budget would be ‎anti-inflationary and that the development credit allocations would not go beyond last ‎year’s figures, in his most recent trip to the Ardebil President …

An extreme crusade against male-domination in societies such as Iran’s could actually ‎lead to the strengthening of male chauvinism, despite the contrary original intention. It is ‎clear that the cultural, ideological, historic and religious basis …