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Statement from Javad Zarif, Former Foreign Minister, now Vice President of Iran.

You probably won’t find this statement sent today, in normal media. Some will call it propaganda. I just urge folks to listen and move toward ending the horrid slaughter, and wars. I had the honor to interview Fmr. UN Ambassador…

After Israeli Strike Iran Holds the Trump Card

By Emad Kiyaei  Following Israel’s recent strike on Iran, Tehran finds itself in a unique position to curb the cycle of violence. The question is whether Iran and the U.S. can leverage this moment to strike an immediate freeze-for-freeze deal…

Biden’s Israel Policy Has Led Us to the Brink of War on Iran

On October 1, Iran fired about 180 missiles at Israel in response to Israel’s recent assassinations of leaders of its Revolutionary Guard (IRGC), Hezbollah and Hamas. There are conflicting reports about how many of the missiles struck their targets and if there were…

Reporting for Pressenza, Anthony Donovan met with the newly elected Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian in NYC

On September 25th, during President Masoud Pezeshkian’s visit to the United Nations, Anthony Donovan, along with several others, had the opportunity to sit down with him for a meaningful hour and a half. The meeting was informal and personal, and…

Refreshing body and spirit in Yazd, the Bride of the Desert

Some parts of the northern hemisphere are experiencing a particularly hot summer 2024. In cities, it is often not easy to escape the heat unless you have air conditioners, which have a high energy and environmental impact anyway. Those who…

Iran: 45 years of theocratic rule

The 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran was a pivotal event in Iran’s history and had a significant impact on international politics. It was the result of a combination of popular discontent with the authoritarian regime of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlevi,…

UN welcomes Nobel Peace Prize for Iranian activist

Secretary-General António Guterres and other senior United Nations officials celebrated the award of the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize to imprisoned Iranian journalist and human rights activist Narges Mohammadi. The Nobel Prize “is a tribute to all those women who fight…

BRICS invites Iran, five other countries to join as new members

Iran has been invited to become a member of the BRICS group of emerging economies, whose leaders are in Johannesburg, South Africa, to discuss the bloc’s expansion. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa announced on Thursday that the BRICS member states agreed…

Marking the 36th anniversary of the chemical weapon attack on Sardasht, Iran

The Sardasht chemical attack is one of the most devastating uses of chemical weapons in the Middle East. On June 28, 1987, the Iraqi Air Force conducted an aerial bombardment on the town of Sardasht, located in northwest Iran. The…

An eventful weekend in the Middle East

Information about what is happening in the Middle East always arrives in a fragmented way and it is very difficult to follow the thread and relate one thing to another. The general feeling is that there is always something going…

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