by Amir Taheri | Oct 26, 2012 | Opinion
“What is he trying to do?” This was the question the daily Kayhan posed the other day in a comment about President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s abortive attempt at visiting the Evin prison where some of Iran’s political prisoners are held. If the daily, published by...
by Amir Taheri | Oct 19, 2012 | Opinion
Is Hassan Nasrallah a “Zionist agent”? Normally, the answer should be: God, forbid! And, yet, this was the charge leveled against him last week by, Deputy Commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) General Jamaleddin Abroumand. The general was...
by Amir Taheri | Oct 12, 2012 | Opinion
Seduced by catchy formulae, American punditry is often a prisoner of clichés. One such is: “It’s the economy, stupid!”, initially circulated by Bill Clinton’s first presidential campaign. For decades the meaningless phrase has cast a shadow on American politics....
by Amir Taheri | Oct 5, 2012 | Opinion
Last Monday, Iran’s currency, the rial, lost almost 20 per cent of its value, hitting a new low after months of decline. In December 2011, a US dollar was worth 15,000 rials. Now it is closer to 40,000 rials. To rub the salt let’s recall that, before the mullahs...
by Amir Taheri | Sep 28, 2012 | Opinion
With the Grand National Assembly (parliament) returning next week from its summer recess, the firing shot will be sounded for an exciting, and dangerous, moment in Turkey’s quest for redefining its identity under Prime Minister Recep Tayyib Erdogan Erdogan is likely...
