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Is Iran's Economy Heading Toward Hyperinflation? Lessons from Venezuela, Zimbabwe, Russia and the Weimar Republic for Iran Mounting economic pressure weighs heavily on the lives of the Iranian people, and conditions…

A Letter to Mojtaba Khamenei A Preliminary Word Mr. Mojtaba Khamenei's leadership is shrouded in ambiguity. He is an absent leader. No one knows whether he is alive or dead, conscious or in a coma, whether he still has…

An Economic Tsunami Is Coming: What Is the Remedy? The war that the United States and Israel waged against Iran has inflicted direct damage on the country of between 270 and 500 billion dollars (according to estimates…

In this By Invitation essay, Sazegara traces how the IRGC drifted from its founding idea of a small people's army in three stages: into the economy after the Iran-Iraq war, into politics to suppress the reform movement,…

Speech by Mohsen Sazegara, Washington, 12 Bahman 1403 [31 January 2025] In the name of the Lord of soul and wisdom Truly, in this gathering where the friends and admirers of Davar (Ebrahim Nabavi's pen name) have come…

An IranWire feature on his open letters to Khamenei over three decades. It follows his path from Khomeini's companion in 1978 to reformist and then to calls for a referendum, including his 2001 letter calling the…

My kind and caring friend, Ahmad Zeidabadi, has taken up his pen and written a few lines reviewing and critiquing my remarks on the BBC. Ahmad is called "the honor of the community of writers," a title I believe he…

Treason in Kazakhstan, Lies in Tehran Treason in Kazakhstan Lies in Tehran Background The Caspian Sea, also called the Sea of Mazandaran or the Khazar Sea, is the largest lake in the world, with an area of 376,000…

May I, Agha Mostafa? I read Mostafa Tajzadeh's written reply to Mohsen Makhmalbaf and was glad that Mostafa (if I may call him by his first name) has done two things. First, unlike many members of the Mojahedin of the…

Handing the House Over to Its Owner Mr. Khamenei, Greetings. Word from within your medical circle is that your health is poor, and they believe your death may be very near. That may not prove true, and you may live a…

His written statement, as president of the Research Institute on Contemporary Iran, to the joint House Foreign Affairs subcommittee hearing "The Shame of Iranian Human Rights." He documents the rise in arrests of…

This page reproduces only the opening of a column by Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson, republished elsewhere, from February 2010. Gerson argues that realists and idealists in foreign policy are beginning to…