Kourosh Ziabari – Stimson Center: Modern-day Iran is the inheritor of a hallowed civilization and ancient monuments that have survived millennia of invasions, natural disasters, and political u...
http://kouroshziabari.com/2023/07/why-the-iranian-government-neglects-the-nations-cultural-heritage/
Kourosh Ziabari – Stimson Center: Emigration from Iran is on the rise again as more and more Iranians conclude that their country has been turned into scorched earth by the Islamic Republic and...
http://kouroshziabari.com/2023/07/irans-brain-drain-accelerates-as-crackdown-on-dissent-intensifies/
Kourosh Ziabari – Al-Monitor: As the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris approach, Iran’s female athletes are speaking out publicly about the inequities in their professional journey, at a time t...
http://kouroshziabari.com/2023/07/irans-female-athletes-raise-voices-over-entrenched-discrimination/
Kourosh Ziabari – AGSIW: After more than four decades of frozen relations, signs are emerging that Iran and Egypt are seeking to thaw ties. Since its inception, the Islamic Republic of Iran has...
http://kouroshziabari.com/2023/07/are-iran-and-egypt-on-a-path-to-entente/
Kourosh Ziabari – PassBlue: Nationwide protests convulsing Iran triggered by the death of Mahsa Amini in police custody last September have tapered off, but as the women-led uprising recedes fr...
http://kouroshziabari.com/2023/07/irans-latest-hijab-war-on-women-goes-after-businesses/
Kourosh Ziabari – New Lines Magazine: Former U.S. President Donald Trump’s May 2018 withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), commonly known as the Iran nuclear deal, re...
http://kouroshziabari.com/2023/07/javad-zarifs-checkered-legacy/
Kourosh Ziabari – The New Arab: War in Ukraine rages on nine months after Russia initiated a full-scale invasion of its neighbouring country. The world has been shocked by the unfolding scene...
http://kouroshziabari.com/2023/02/iran-must-end-its-complicity-in-russias-indefensible-war/
Kourosh Ziabari – The New Arab: As the administration of the ultra-conservative Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi finds itself lonely on the world stage with a dwindling appetite for foreign rela...
http://kouroshziabari.com/2023/02/embassy-vandalism-in-iran-compounds-its-global-alienation/
Kourosh Ziabari – Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington: The countrywide uprising precipitated by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in the custody of Iran’s morality police has been de...
http://kouroshziabari.com/2023/02/women-in-afghanistan-are-inspired-emboldened-by-protests-in-iran/
Kourosh Ziabari – Democracy in Exile: Spooked by the success of citizen journalists in revealing the magnitude of the state-sponsored crackdown on protests and the critical role of popular publ...