The Experts Assembly on Leadership held its concluding session last Wednesday with President Hassan Rowhani’s remarks about the situation in the region, foreign policy and international sanctions against Iran. The shadow of Iran’s military heavily …

As the possibility of a military strike against Syria by the US and some European countries grows, ayatollah Khamenei and some of the senior members of Iran’s armed forces reacted to the issue and unlike in the past, retreated from their earlier …

Following this week’s use of chemical weapons in the Syrian conflict, talk of a US and NATO military strike against the country has heightened to the point that reports indicate a credible imminent military strike against Syria. The central question …

Our emails and chats began with these words: A motherly greeting, a greeting from a son. I am talking about Rashid Ismaili, an adopted son I never met but who had been introduced to me by a dear friend who himself happens to be in prison nowadays. …

It is the first time that an official of the Islamic republic of Iran has expressly used language that criticizes the earlier foreign policy of the country. At the ceremony introducing Mohammad Javad Zarif (Zarif in Persian means delicate) as the new …

A satire Forty years ago, as the US launched its air bombardments of Vietnam, a forty two year old man and his one-year old son fled to the nearby jungles. Last week they were “found” by a farmer. Today, the man is eighty two years old and his son is …

The rejection of three of Hassan Rowhani’s cabinet ministers by the Majlis, which has been promoting the idea of its cooperation with the new administration and other current issues were the subject of Rooz’s talk with former mayor of Tehran and the …

The deputy chairman of Iran’s Majlis committee on national security and foreign policy announced that there are currently 50 Iranian embassies and legations around the world that have no ambassador. Earlier, the spokesperson of the country’s foreign …

In his Eid Fitr sermons this week, the southern city of Zahedan’s influential Sunni Friday prayer leader Molavi AbdolHamid announced that despite their efforts and those of some Majlis representatives to have at least two Sunni members in Iran’s …

On the eve of the formation of Iran’s new cabinet and following the various declarations of the country’s military organizations that announce their readiness to cooperate with the new administration, the head of the Basij para-military force …

Rooz spoke with Amir Mohebian, a conservative hardline principlist who has been a journalist and a university lecturer, about current issues in Iran. He says principlists are not interested in getting a share of the political power because they lost …

A member of Iran’s Chamber of Commerce has warned that if foreign exchange is not provided to the business community, there will “shortages in products including food.” Assadollah Asqar Owladi told ILNA labor news agency, “Unfortunately because of …

Some principlist Majlis representatives – conservative hardliners - have said former reformist president Mohammad Khatami would not be invited to Hassan Rowhani’s inauguration ceremony. Rooz spoke with Ahmad Shirzad, a member of the ruling central …

The conservative group Society of Combatant Clerics (Jame Rohaniyate Mobarez) did not support Hassan Rowhani’s presidential bid in 2013, even though the group remains the president-elect’s choice of party affiliation. Seyed Reza Akrami was the only …

Two days after Iran’s supreme leader set the goals of the country’s foreign policy, and at the same time stressed his views and directed the country’s newly elected president, Hassan Rowhani, on domestic issues, a number of ayatollah Khamenei’s …

Recently, when Mohammad Nourizadeh bestowed a kiss on the foot of a child, he threw the whole contemporary political and social history of Iran into turmoil and challenge. Nourizadeh is a well-known Iranian writer and critic film-maker who until a …

After Jack Straw, the former British foreign secretary announced his desire to visit Tehran to meet Iran’s newly elected president and a website close to the Revolutionary Guards published a story that Straw may attend Hassan Rowhani’s inaugural …

Abbas Salimi-Namin is the current director of the research center on Iran and a hardline principlist journalist. He is also the former managing editor of a Kayhan newspaper and the editor of English language Tehran Times. Even though he belongs to …