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Iran's Green Protest Movement

Cracks in the Foundation

Little strokes fell big oaks. Despite major repressions, the reform-oriented movement around Mehdi Karroubi and Mir Hossein Mousavi is continuing its protests, discovering new forms of resistance against the regime. By Ghasem Toulany
History of the Iranian nuclear programme

The trauma of vulnerability

Originally, the Iranian leadership considered nuclear weapons un-Islamic. However, the experience of the Iran–Iraq War led to the political conviction within Iran that the country needs nuclear arms. Katajun Amirpur looks back at the history of Iran's nuclear programme
The Nuclear Conflict with Iran

Tehran's Game of Cat and Mouse Continues

In the mounting dispute with the West over its nuclear program, Iranian foreign policy has taken some confusing and contradictory twists and turns. Bahman Nirumand takes a look behind the scenes
The Image of Israel in the Islamic Republic of Iran

Anti-Israeli Dogma

The Islamic Republic has an unbroken history of propaganda against Israel. Despite several shifts of focus, it has been a factor in Iran from the revolution in 1979 to the present day, as Joseph Croitoru elaborates
Alliance of Leftist and Islamist Leaders

False Friends

Hatred of the USA is uniting leftist and Islamist leaders. Anti-Semitic propaganda and conspiracy theories are part of the way they see the world says Wolf-Dieter Vogel in his essay
Resistance to Relocation Projects in Southern Iran

The Intifada versus the Mullahs

The public attention being paid to the Iranian government's efforts to build a nuclear program have obscured the violent displacement of hundreds of thousands of Arabic Iranians in the Khuzestan province. By Joseph Croitoru
The Green Movement in Iran

A Divided Coalition

The Green movement in Iran is still hoping that its tactic of applying pressure on the government from below, while negotiating at the top, will produce results. But Faraj Sarkohi believes that the options remain limited
Iran's Green Movement One Year after the Protests

Off the Political Radar

One year after the protests against Ahmadinejad's disputed election victory, the green movement still does not have a coherent political strategy for fighting the regime, writes Karim Sadjadpour, expert on Iran at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington
Iran's Green Movement

Time to Rethink

Iran's opposition movement must draw the lessons of its months of activism since the 2009 election and map a coherent political strategy, says Nazenin Ansari, diplomatic editor of the weekly London-based newspaper Kayhan
Commentary by Shlomo Ben-Ami

Obama's Flawed Peace Process

According to former Israeli foreign minister Shlomo Ben-Ami, the assumption that peace between Israel and the Palestinians can be achieved by driving a wedge between "moderates" and "extremists" is a fatal misconception