Tag: Islamic republic
Saudi effort to isolate Iran internationally produces results
James M. Dorsey | Saudi efforts to isolate Iran internationally are producing results in North Africa and Central Asia. Authorities and religious leaders in Tajikistan...
Iranian filmmaker facing jail for film highlighting corruption
AFP | It is not easy to lead a good and virtuous life in Iran if the film-maker Mohammad Rasoulof's latest film, "A Man of...
Iran joins Iraq in squeezing United States’s Kurdish Allies
James M Dorsey | There may be a silver but risky lining for Kurdish nationalists in their devastating loss of Kirkuk and other cities on...
How to protect women from sexual harassment?
Saud Bin Ahsan | Sexual harassment is a breach of a person’s basic right to dignity as enshrined in the Constitution of the Islamic Republic...
Morality and misplaced loyalty
Ikram Sehgal | Misplaced loyalty for corrupt individuals is not the only betrayal of the community but complicity in their crimes, it lies at the...
Playing with Fire: Trump’s Iran policy risks cloning North Korea
James M. Dorsey | As US President Donald J. Trump gropes with a set of bad options for responding to North Korea’s rapidly expanding nuclear...
Hassan Rouhani re-elected as President: Will he be able to reform...
News Analysis | Iran's reformist President Hassan Rouhani has emphatically won the country's presidential election, according to official results, fending off a challenge by the rival, Ebrahim...
Iran allows women spectators to watch “Men Sporting events”
Dr. James Dorsey Iran, bowing to external pressure, has allowed women spectators to attend a premier international men’s volleyball tournament on the island of Kish....
Business demands sacrifice? Swedish executives to put Hijab in Iran
Sweden's government takes great pride in being the world's first to have adopted an overtly feminist stance. Nevertheless, a Swedish government minister and her...
