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In the past, to better understand politics in Iran one needed to pay critical attention to its chosen name since the 1979…
Faramarz Farbod
I am a native of Iran and father of 17-year old twin boys. I teach politics at Moravian College. I have been active in anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, and environmental justice movements.
Obama has indeed done the right thing to initiate diplomacy with Iran. Most Iranians, government officials or not, welcome it. However,…
Fifty-five years ago this week, in mid-August of 1953, Dr. Mohammad Mossadeq, the prime minister of Iran, was toppled in a royalist…
Let’s pause and take a quiz question on the Iraq War: Ø What lessons should we learn from the current war…
A popular joke in the United States of the late 1980s depicted Iran as a country that had for long generated substantial…