By Fatemeh Saberi

American miscalculation and Iran’s upper hand 

"The policy of escalating tension to reduce tension" is a wrong policy that United States usually adopts toward Iran.

By Pascal Najadi

Alice Weidel: The new hope for Germany

Germany is currently walking into the biggest socio-economic crisis since WW2. But there is a new North Star on the horizon and her name is Dr. Alice Weidel. She is a young and dynamic banker and economist that also speaks Mandarin. Alice leads the German conservative AfD party with courage and cleverness to new heights. 

By Hossein Askari

There’s corruption and there’s corruption—the Al-Sauds take the cake

Does Saudi Arabia’s constitution condone corruption and murder?

Let’s admit it upfront. Corruption is everywhere in the world. In the United States, big time donors give big bucks or “dark money” to politicians to legislate and change laws in their favor. Still we are lucky in the United States that we can call out corruption and face no prison term and dismemberment. This is far from the case in Saudi Arabia, where such criticism of the Al-Sauds, the ruling tribe, could lead to your death or land you in jail.

By Professor Yuan Zhang

External conflicts revise the view of war in the Middle East

Throughout human history, major international wars have not only caused dramatic short-term fluctuations in interstate relations, but have also had a long and profound impact on the way non-combatant states view war. The Russia-Ukraine conflict is rapidly changing the global geopolitics and the world political and economic order.

By Fatemeh Saberi

What is all this anger for?

TEHRAN- Since September 2022, the Guardian newspaper has been covering one-sided and untrue news of the protests in Iran surrounding the death of Mahsa Amini.

By Mojtaba Babaei

Netanyahu and Biden's foreign policy

TEHRAN- U.S. foreign policy is bipartisan for supporting Israel, but Democrats are less influenced by their allies than Republican rivals. 

By Abbas Sarvestani

Mid-term elections in US under shadow of unprecedented political violence 

Attack against Nancy Pelosi's husband on October 28, once again turned the discussion of political violence into the headlines of the world's media. In general, political violence in most of the modern societies is the result of social tensions, which develop due to different reasons: Ideology, religious and ethnic conflicts, political conflicts between different groups of elites, economic conditions and the concept of relative deprivation.

By Fatemeh Saberi

“Engineering Operation”: 40 years later

TEHRAN- Arman Ali Verdi was a young student of religious studies who was kidnapped in the evening of October 26 during riots in the Ekbatan residential complex in west Tehran, and was brutally martyred. His martyrdom once again brought to mind the crimes of the Mujaheddin Khalq Organization (MKO) in assassinating people who were aligned or interested in the Islamic Republic system in the 1980s. 

By Pascal Najadi

The whys and whats of Ukraine crisis

Ukraine war solvable with common sense

We are today facing an avoidable crisis between the United States and Russia that was predictable, deliberate, but easily solvable with common sense.

By Pascal Najadi

Ukraine war threatens the entire world

Contrary to the current belief that either Ukraine or Russia could win this war, reality will show us that global destruction is likely the result in case of a one-sided victory. 

By Mehdi Zare

Climate change and challenges

Climate change refers to long-term changes in temperature and weather patterns that may be natural but since the middle of the 18th century, the trends have changed. 

By Dr. Vaishali Krishna*

Iran and Russia: Moving towards anti-West coalitions

Having a long history of physical, productive, and socio-political interplay, the relationship between Iran and Russia goes back to 1521 when the first envoy was sent to Russia from Iran by Safavid Shah Ismail I to the Tsar Vasili III.

By Hossein Askari

Biden Brings as much shame to Americans as MBS brings to Muslims

Muslims the world over must shun Mohammad bin Salman and members of the al-Saud tribe. They must demand that Saudi Arabia relinquish its control over Islam’s two holiest places in Mecca and Medina and place management of the two sites under the stewardship of all Muslim countries.

By Martin Love

Maybe, just maybe, real change can happen…

There seems little cheer about in the US and with its “allies” currently: 

Climate control seems like it will not happen because maybe it can’t happen and won’t until it’s far too late. Consider that the corrupted World Economic Forum has asserted that the personal ownership of automobiles must be curtailed radically or halted completely. What? The US, to cite one country, is entirely dependent on the automobile.

By Mehdi Zare, professor at Earthquake Prediction Center, IIEES

Scientific challenge: predicting earthquakes or avoiding them?

Almost every time, after a large earthquake occurs near a residential area, questions are raised in the media as to "why the event was not anticipated?". 

By Hossein Askari

How to counterbalance sanctions for the future

Iran was entirely compliant with the nuclear agreement (JCPOA) signed by President Obama and ratified by the United Nations Security Council; nevertheless, Trump tore it up.