Despite its track record of espousing multilateralism and the rule of law, the European Union refused to denounce the U.S.-Israeli war of aggression against Iran, which legal experts warn violated the UN Charter
The U.S. government's economic offensive against Iran is blocking Iranian students and applicants of higher education programs from sitting for tests of English proficiency, further weakening the country's civil society
A growing number of international travelers are venturing to visit Iran despite the security and economic challenges surrounding the country. After decades of misleading corporate media portrayals, millennial critical thinkers are less willing to accept misrepresentations of Iranians driven by geopolitical rivalries
As Iranians come to grips with the reality of life under lingering threats by the United States and Israel, southern Iran's strained resources may fail to withstand a naval blockade, increasing water stress, electricity blackouts, and disrupted livelihoods that were dependent on coastal trade.
Mystery continues to swirl around Iran's former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and he hasn't commented on the country's most important developments for months now. His relationship with a former cultural advisor, Mohammad Ali Ramin, helps explain his metamorphosis
The current imbroglio caused by the illegal US-Israeli war on Iran is the culmination of decades of fearmongering by the "experts" about an exceptional Iranian threat, one that purportedly demanded nothing less than all-out war.
Half a century has passed since an Iranian-American historian interrupted his studies in Los Angeles to join a revolution that he believed would reshape his country. The spirit that drove him to the streets of Tehran is now tempered by caution about how a revolution can go awry.
Iran’s newsrooms, broadcasting studios, publishing houses, and adjacent businesses such as bookstores have suffered serious damage due to the U.S.-Israeli military campaign, worsening the working conditions for journalists in an already restrictive environment
Richard Nelson Frye devoted his life to Persian history and asked to be buried in Isfahan, but Iran’s hard-liners refused. As Iran and the United States fight a widening war, his story offers a parable of a relationship surrendered to hard-liners.
From toxic acid rain blanketing Tehran after Israel bombed the Iranian capital’s oil depots to the emission of a substantial volume of greenhouse gases in the early phases of the campaign, the US-Israeli war of aggression on Iran has caused serious environmental degradation in the country
