Islamic revolution

The final battle for Iran: Why Khamenei’s regime is on its last legs - opinion

Iranians unite against the regime, growing protests signal the possibility for change, yet the world remains hesitant to act.

 A screenshot of a pre-recorded message by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei from a hidden location.
Farah Pahlavi, former Empress of Iran, pictured with the author.

'The Prince of Persia': History, faith, and a warning the West ignored - opinion

IRANIANS GATHER while blocking a street during a protest in Kermanshah, Iran on January 8, 2026.

'Mercenaries for foreigners': Khamenei accuses Iranian protesters of acting on behalf of Trump

PEOPLE WALK on a street in Tehran, Iran in November 2025.

The kindness that kills: Wokeness, guilt, and Islamic radicalism - opinion


Allies in waiting: Israelis and Iranians are not enemies - opinion

When the day comes that they can speak and act freely, Israelis will be ready to greet them not as adversaries, but as partners in building a more peaceful, prosperous, and free Middle East.

 Supporters of the National Council of Resistance of Iran gather to protest against the death penalty in their home country and for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to be declared a "terrorist organisation", in Berlin, Germany, November 14, 2024.

Congress legislation on Iran hails leader of former terror group

“Iranians are united in their disdain for the Mojahedin-e Khalq; the regime would be the largest benefactor of a legislation promoted by them,” says Dr. Raz Zimmt from INSS.

US Representative Tom McClintock (R-CA) questions US Office of Management and Budget Director Shalanda Young during a House Budget Committee hearing on then-US President Joe Biden's budget plan for the 2023 fiscal year, in the Canon House Office Building in Washington, US, March 29, 2022.

How losing homes in the Los Angeles wildfires re-traumatized Jews who escaped Iran

DIASPORA AFFAIRS: 42 years ago, Mahnaz, Firouz, and their then-small children had escaped the fanatic violence and persecution of Iran in the middle of the night.

 AT LEAST 29 people were killed, more than 200,000 people were forced to evacuate, and over 16,000 structures were destroyed or damaged. The economic toll from the fires is estimated at over $250 billion. Here, an aerial view of homes destroyed in the Palisades Fire is seen in March.

Israel should support the South Azerbaijan's independence from Iran - opinion

Since we assume that Iran fears the independence of Southern Azerbaijan and given the strong ties between Northern Azerbaijan and Israel, why shouldn't Israel have ties with Southern Azerbaijan?

A funeral is held for late Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi in Tabriz, East Azerbaijan, Iran.

46 Years of tyranny: How Iran's Islamic Revolution betrayed its promises - opinion

Anything that was and is against Western culture and tradition is embraced by certain influential intellectuals.

AN UNDATED picture handed out by the PA shows Palestinian president Yasser Arafat and Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini during a meeting in Tehran

Iranian Imam shot dead in Kazeroun attack in third such killing since 1979

Sabahi had served as the Imam of Kharameh for ten years before returning to Kazeroun in November 2019.

 Hojjatoleslam Va Moslemeen Mohammad Sabahi.

Under pressure, second-class Iranian Jews endorse radical candidate Ghalibaf for president

Tehran-born Iran expert Beni Sabti said that the country's Jewish community had never come out for a candidate before.

 Presidential candidate Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf speaks during a campaign event in Tehran

Biden's Iranian non-deal: The controversial path to engagement - opinion

“Rumors about a nuclear deal, interim or otherwise, are false and misleading,” State Department spokesman Matthew Miller told journalists in June.

 THEN-US PRESIDENT Barack Obama delivers a statement about the nuclear deal reached between Iran and six major world powers, as his vice president, Joe Biden, looks on, in the East Room of the White House, in July 2015.

Israel received critical Iran intel from IDF soldier's 15-year side project

SWO (res.) E. began monitoring Iranian communications in the 1960s, back when they were still an ally.

 IDF SWO (res.) E. is seen meeting with senior military officials to discuss Iran in this undated photo.

Iran accuses Israel, Western intelligence of planning civil war in Iran - foreign minister

The recent protests have turned into one of the boldest challenges to Iran's clerical leadership since the 1979 revolution.

 Demonstrators stand in front of a wall of the former U.S. embassy with anti-U.S. murals during the 42nd anniversary of the U.S. expulsion from Iran, in Tehran, Iran November 4, 2021