A prominent Iranian human rights activist has been sentenced to 16 years in prison, The New York Times reported Wednesday. Narges Mohammadi, a human rights lawyer, who “has been in and out of jail over the past 15 years” was sentenced by Abolghassem Salavati, the head of an Iranian revolutionary court, to...

A top Iranian general said that Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) troops are feeding intelligence to Russia in order to guide its airstrikes on the Syrian city of Aleppo, Amir Toumaj, a research analyst at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, reported in the Long War Journal on Tuesday. Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi,...

One of the likeliest successors to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has a “a contempt for the West” and is committed to “the theocracy’s mission of repression,” Council on Foreign Relations senior fellow Ray Takeyh wrote in The Washington Post on Monday. Ibrahim Raisi, a former prosecutor general, is being positioned to succeed...

Recent Palestinian-led efforts to boot Israel out of FIFA, the world governing body of soccer, “contradict longstanding FIFA practice and create a double standard for Israel,” a leading legal expert wrote in The Washington Post Monday. Eugene Kontorovich, a law professor at Northwestern University and head of the Kohelet Policy Forum’s international...

Iranian women have taken to social media to protest and defy a recently issued fatwa by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, which bans females from riding bicycles because the activity ostensibly endangers their “chastity” and “exposes society to corruption,” The Independent reported on Tuesday. Women participating in the My Stealthy Freedom social media...

For both supporters and detractors of the State of Israel, no single conference of the past fifteen years has had a more enduring impact on the evolution of the Arab-Israeli conflict than the World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance held in Durban, South Africa. The event,...