NCRI-US Staff, 18 April 2018 Just a few months after protests erupted in Iran, Professor Ivan Sascha Sheehan of the University of Maryland published a comprehensive report and analysis of the uprising that made global headlines around the New Year. The arguments he makes in
NCRI-US Staff, 15 April 2018 At four in the morning on Saturday, April 14, 2018, the sounds of explosions were heard across the city. The United States, France and Great Britain launched airstrikes against Syrian military facilities in Damascus in response to a chemical attack
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NCRI-US Staff, 15 April 2018 Iran’s currency, the rial, has experienced unprecedented inflation since the regime’s president, Hassan Rouhani, took office in 2013. The rise has not slowed as economists predicted after certain sanctions placed on Iran for its nuclear capabilities and testing were lifted
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By NCRI-US Staff, 13 April 2018 The Assad regime’s recent chemical attack against innocent civilians marks another atrocity in Syria’s multi-year human catastrophe. Hospital reports indicate that the victims all showed signs of chemical exposure. In total, there were over 500 casualties and at least
Ali Safavi, Al Arabiya, 13 March 2018 This year, the Iranian fire festival of Chaharshanbe Suri, will be marked on Tuesday, March 14, 2018. It may also mark the beginning of a new uprising against the clerical regime, in light of a series of recent
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Ali Safavi, Real Clear World, 9 March 2018 On Dec. 31, 1977, then-U.S. President Jimmy Carter toasted the Shah’s Iran as “an island of stability in one of the more troubled areas of the world.” Days later, anti-government protests erupted in the Holy city of
Soona Samsami, The Daily Caller, 31 January 2018 As 2018 dawned in Iran, a surge of urban uprisings engulfed more than 140 cities and towns. Protesters angrily chanted “Leave Syria alone, think about us” and “Death to Hezbollah” — slogans aimed at not only the regime’s President
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Ali Safavi, IJR, 12 January 2018 With audacious anti-regime protests roiling throughout Iran, wheezy officials of the dictatorship have repeatedly declared the uprising at an end. But the raw social anger did not appear out of nowhere, and it will not simply disappear into thin air. Popular
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Alireza Jafarzadeh, Fox News, 2 January 2018 VIEW MORE STORIES ABOUT THE MOVEMENT HERE What started as economic demonstrations have transformed into deadly anti-government protests across Iran. A round-up of what happened and how leaders are reacting to the chaos. Anti-government demonstrations that erupted Thursday and have
Alireza Jafarzadeh, Washington Examiner, 1 September 2017 Two years ago, nuclear negotiations concluded between Iran and the P5+1 group of nations, with the U.S. at its head. The resulting Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or the Iran nuclear deal, has accomplished little in the time