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Fariba Amini

Fariba Amini is a freelance writer and journalist. She has interviewed many scholars of Iran and former U.S. diplomats throughout the years. Her research on The Most Successful Iranian-Americans was published by the U.S. Department of State. She is the editor of Letters from Ahmad Abad (in Persian). Her father was the mayor of Tehran and personal attorney to Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh.

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A Middle East without Nukes

A Middle East without Nukes

Fariba Amini

“You can’t bomb away the knowledge”  -John Kerry Marg bar means death to… It was chanted after the hostage crisis.  Marg bar America.  Death to America.  Yet, many of the Islamic Republic children came to America to study and prosper. Then it was Marg bar Israel.  Death to Israel.  Why? Does the Islamic Republic just […]

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An Iranian-American View: Tehran will Never Surrender

An Iranian-American View: Tehran will Never Surrender

Fariba Amini

Out beyond the ideas of wrongdoing and right doing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there.        –Rumi Like the rest of the world, I got up on Friday morning June 13 to hear the shocking news. It was truly Friday the 13th. When asked sometimes before where I am originally from, I used to […]

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Russia in Iran: The Times and Life of Diplomat Ivan Jakolevich Korostovetz

Russia in Iran: The Times and Life of Diplomat Ivan Jakolevich Korostovetz

Fariba Amini

“Russia’s role in Iranian history since the nineteenth century is well known, to be sure.  But especially for the period until World War I, it tends to be narrated in a patterned and somewhat reductionist manner, typically through the lens of the ‘Great Game,’ with Iran a mere buffer state between Russia and Great Britain, […]

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Iran’s Islamic Revolution and the US: Why Diplomats Matter

Iran’s Islamic Revolution and the US: Why Diplomats Matter

Fariba Amini

George B. Lambrakis was a State Department Foreign Service officer from 1957 to 1985, after two years with USIS in Vietnam and Laos. He served in Iran during the Islamic Revolution 1978-1979. He is interviewed by Fariba Amini. Fariba Amini: The first Trump administration abandoned the JCPOA.    Why do you think now in his second […]

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On Int’l Women’s Day:  In Memory of Iranian Women who have Struggled for Freedom

On Int’l Women’s Day: In Memory of Iranian Women who have Struggled for Freedom

Fariba Amini

Newark, Delaware (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – When Ruhollah Khomeini was still in Neauphle-le-Château, in various declarations and interviews, he had promised that women would have the freedom to choose their attire.  That they would have the same rights as men.  “In an interview with a left-leaning Lebanese newspaper, he said that Islam believes in the total […]

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Interview with Miko Peled, Director of Palestine House of Freedom

Interview with Miko Peled, Director of Palestine House of Freedom

Fariba Amini

Interview by Fariba Amini with Miko Peled, Israeli peace activist and Director of Palestine House of Freedom. Photographs by Fariba Amini © 2025. F.A. You were raised in a Zionist family.   You also served in the Israeli army. Your father, Matti Peled was a general during the 1967 war.  You sister, Nurit who is an […]

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On the 46th Anniversary of Iranian Revolution:  An Interview with Amb. John Limbert

On the 46th Anniversary of Iranian Revolution: An Interview with Amb. John Limbert

Fariba Amini

“No one should be surprised that the Iranian Revolution took a religious form.   The fact that God appears on almost every page does not reflect religious convictions of my own, nor for that matter any conscious design at all, but simply arises from the circumstance that in any description of the fabric of Iranian life […]

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The Fatal Despair of Exile:  An Iran they could neither Live in nor Leave Behind

The Fatal Despair of Exile: An Iran they could neither Live in nor Leave Behind

Fariba Amini

Nothing takes me from the butterflies of my dreams to my reality: not dust and not fire. What will I do without roses from Samarkand? What will I do in a theater that burnishes the singers with its lunar stones? Our weight has become light like our houses in the faraway winds. We have become […]

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“Trump is the one to Blame” for Current Iran Crisis:  An Interview with Gary Sick (Pt. 2)

“Trump is the one to Blame” for Current Iran Crisis: An Interview with Gary Sick (Pt. 2)

Fariba Amini

This is part II of Fariba Amini’s two-part interview with Columbia University Political Scientist and former National Security Council Adviser (to President Jimmy Carter) Gary Sick, among America’s foremost Iran specialists. Part I is here. Gary Sick. Courtesy Columbia University. Fariba Amini: How do you see Trump’s internal and foreign policy agenda in the coming […]

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