Iran

Iran’s Clampdown on Mixed-gender Parties

28/03/2017

Beyond Europe, Iran

Iran’s oppressive regime has a history of clamping down on parties. With authorities shutting down get-togethers and arresting those in attendance, this brutal practice continued throughout the month of March ... Be More Curious...

Iran Nuclear Deal Dilemmas Fueling Elections Standoff

21/03/2017

Beyond Europe, Iran

Tensions are intensifying quickly in Iranian politics. Recent comments by senior U.S. officials, such as Ambassador Nikki Haley and CENTCOM chief General Joseph Votel, explaining the threats posed by Tehran hav... Be More Curious...

Iran’s growing brain drain disaster

12/03/2017

Beyond Europe, Iran

Harsh crackdown and human rights violations, difficult living conditions under enormous pressures, and colossal education costs in Iran under the mullahs’ regime is leaving no choice other than leaving the country for Iran’s university students, professors and... Be More Curious...

The Iranian Regime and Evolution of ISIS

16/02/2017

Beyond Europe, Iran

Support for international terrorism received a major boost the moment the mullahs hijacked Iran’s 1979 revolution. After a very short-lived period of a so-called open political atmosphere, their thugs organized... Be More Curious...

Conference in Paris Concludes Eviction of Iran’s IRGC Forces from Syria and Region is Necessary for Peace to Thrive

04/02/2017

Beyond Europe, Iran

DISCLAIMER: all opinions in this column reflect view of the autor(s), not of Vocal Europe by Donya Jam Majority of governments around the globe recognize the regime of Iran as one of the most state sponso... Be More Curious...

Why is Iran, with the 2nd largest reserves, importing natural gas?

27/01/2017

Beyond Europe, Iran

by Heshmat Alavi The sheer fact that Iran, sitting on the world’s 2nd largest natural gas reserves, second only to Russia, is forced to import up to 10 billion cubic meters of natural gas each year from Turkmenistan, its northern neighbor, sheds interesting l... Be More Curious...

Time to assume the right approach on Iran

18/01/2017

Beyond Europe, Iran

DISCLAIMER: all opinions in this column reflect view of the autor(s), not of Vocal Europe by Heshmat Alavi 105 United Nations Member States, including many from Europe, adopted a resolution on December 21... Be More Curious...

Iran’s deplorable human rights record needs urgent attention of EU Member States

16/01/2017

Beyond Europe, Iran

DISCLAIMER: all opinions in this column reflect view of the autor(s), not of Vocal Europe by Donya Jam Executions are continuing in Iran unabated. At least 42 inmates have been hanged by regime authorit... Be More Curious...

Rafsanjani’s death can be prelude to major change in Iran by Iranian people

13/01/2017

Beyond Europe, Iran

DISCLAIMER: all opinions in this column reflect view of the autor(s), not of Vocal Europe By Hossein Abedini The death on Sunday of the Iranian mullah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani marks a milestone in the life of Iran’s clerical regime. It may also mark ... Be More Curious...

Monday Talk with Cornelius Adebahr on Iran and Trump

Madalina Sisu Vicari

05/12/2016

Beyond Europe, Iran, Monday Talks

by Madalina Sisu Vicari Vocal Europe: Are you surprised by the presidential elections’ outcome that Mr Trump becomes 45th president of the US? Cornelius Adebahr: Given that nearly all polls pointed to a w... Be More Curious...

Iranian Leadership Holding the World to Ransom

25/10/2016

Beyond Europe, Iran

DISCLAIMER: all opinions in this column reflect view of the autor(s), not of Vocal Europe by Struan Stevenson The revelation that the Obama administration paid Iran a ransom of almost half a billion dolla... Be More Curious...

What Europe can do for human rights in Iran?

11/08/2016

Beyond Europe, Iran

by Elaheh Azimfar The religious dictatorship ruling Iran has launched a new wave of mass executions following an increasing discontent and expanding opposition among Iranian people. At least 36 prisoners were hanged from 2 to 6 August in various cities. Aft... Be More Curious...

Do Blairites realise they are cheering the success of Iran?

13/07/2016

Beyond Europe, Iran

by Alastair Sloan Suspend for a moment any care for the Iraqi civilians and British soldiers who died in the 2003 invasion and subsequent years of occupation in Iraq. I’m not saying you don’t care, but let’s... Be More Curious...

Love and Marriage, Iranian Style

28/06/2016

by Mehrnaz Samimi Arranged marriages are far from the main means through which nuptials take place in Iran. Long gone, too, are the days when a nervous young man in his early to mid-twenties would scribble h... Be More Curious...

Tehran or Paris: which is safer?

21/06/2016

06/21/2016 Brussels Iran’s official IRNA news agency on Sunday quoted Iranian Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani as saying: ♣ Europeans and westerners who have travelled to Iran say that they feel safer in Tehran than Paris. ... Be More Curious...

MEPs express solidarity with Iranian political prisoners

10/05/2016

Vocal Europe A group from the European Parliament has expressed its solidarity with imprisoned teachers and union leaders in Iran. The chairman of the Friends of a Free Iran (FoFI) group, Gérard Deprez MEP, re... Be More Curious...

Europe’s banks begin return to Iran

05/04/2016

by Martin Arnold European banks are tentatively re-engaging with Iran as the Middle East’s second-largest economy slowly emerges from a sanctions regime that has kept it in the financial wilderness for years. ... Be More Curious...

Six issues for Narendra Modi’s Iran visit

03/04/2016

by Kabir Taneja* Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is going to make one of his more important foreign sojourns this month, as he prepares to visit Iran for a two-day official visit beginning on May 22. Post-sanctions Iran has been diplomatically hectic for ... Be More Curious...

Iran elections 2016

29/02/2016

by Julia Ann Iran elections 2016, Observers who portrayed the elections as a action amid ‘reformists’ and ‘hardliners’ accept angry themselves in knots – abnormally afterwards advertisement beforehand that a... Be More Curious...

Iranian-Saudi tensions: the energy dimension

09/02/2016

by David Ramin Jalilvand In early January 2016, tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia escalated. The execution of Saudi Shiite cleric Nimr Baqer al-Nimr sparked outrage among the Middle East's Shiite popula... Be More Curious...

Negotiating Iranian Politics: Rouhani’s Reform Agenda

26/01/2016

DISCLAIMER: all opinions in this column reflect view of the autor(s), not of Vocal Europe by Dr. Roubzeh Parsi After the United States and the European Union have lifted economic sanctions on Iran, the country can expect major economic rewards and greater ... Be More Curious...

Will Iran and Saudi Arabia Go to War?

11/01/2016

by JUDY DEMPSEY A selection of experts answer a new question from Judy Dempsey on the foreign and security policy challenges shaping Europe’s role in the world. Cornelius Adebahr - Associate in Carnegie’s E... Be More Curious...

Iraq’s Iranian sovereignty

19/12/2015

Iran, The Opinion

DISCLAIMER: all opinions in this column reflect view of the autor(s), not of Vocal Europe by Iyad Al-Dalimi The ruling elite in Baghdad has suddenly realised that they are ruling a country called Iraq and ... Be More Curious...

Why Israeli and Iranian Hardliners Need Each Other

03/11/2015

DISCLAIMER: all opinions in this column reflect view of the autor(s), not of Vocal Europe By Saeed Rahnema Netanyahu did have Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, disgraced former Iranian President, who with the support of Khamenei, would say one foul thing af... Be More Curious...

The Imperial Designs on Iran

02/11/2015

DISCLAIMER: all opinions in this column reflect view of the autor(s), not of Vocal Europe by Pepe Escobar So what is the Obama administration really up to in Iran? What sort of strategic calculations have... Be More Curious...

After the Iran Nuclear Agreement: Will the Nuclear Powers also Play by the Rules?

15/10/2015

DISCLAIMER: all opinions in this column reflect view of the autor(s), not of Vocal Europe by Lawrence S. Wittner In the aftermath of the Iranian government’s agreement to comply with the treaty, Lawrence Wi... Be More Curious...

Russia, Iran and the Gas Stake: Friends or Foes?

Madalina Sisu Vicari

25/07/2015

DISCLAIMER: all opinions in this column reflect view of the autor(s), not of Vocal Europe by Madalina Sisu Vicari & Azime Telli ( PhD, Lecturer at Ondokuz Mayis University, Turkey) Iran's agreement with P+5 (the five permanent members of the ... Be More Curious...

Nuclear deal to lead Iran interfering in internal affairs of its neighbors?

10/05/2015

DISCLAIMER: all opinions in this column reflect view of the autor(s), not of Vocal Europe by Naveed Ahmad Tehran seems in festive mood over the likely nuclear deal. US Secretary of State John Kerry and hi... Be More Curious...

ISIS: Iran’s Trojan Horse?

01/05/2015

DISCLAIMER: all opinions in this column reflect view of the autor(s), not of Vocal Europe by M. Behzad Fatmi / @BehzadFatmi Islamic State to Iran is what Al Qaeda has been to America. The analogy might no... Be More Curious...