On January 29, 2024, volunteers from the Palestinian Red Crescent received an emergency call. A 6-year-old girl was trapped in a car, pleading
A Poet and an Ayatollah have Passed, but Iran, the land of Rumi and Hafez, must Endure
When they called your name at midnight, In your thoughts, morning blossomed from a blood-stained horizon.
The Iranian People between the Violence of the State and the Violence of Empire
People were gunned down in a systematic way during these protests on a scale unseen since the 1980s
A Blood Bath Took Place in Iran
The families had to search for the bodies of their loved ones amongst the many covered coffins in the many morgues or hospitals
Death of a Director: Bahram Beyzai, Pioneer of Iran’s New Age Cinema
After much struggle with censorship and pressure, he finally left Iran in 2010
Iran: A Visionary Life to Remember
Newark, Del. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – My brother Mohammad Amini was a revolutionary and an early leader of the Confederation of Iranian Students, perhaps the largest student movement in the world. He was a Maoist who over time turned into a nationalist. Our parents were married by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, then a simple […]
Rashid Khalidi on the Gaza Ceasefire: The veil that has hidden the true nature of the Zionist project was shredded for good
If I must die, You must live To tell my story To sell my things To buy a piece of cloth And some strings…. – Refaat Alareer, Palestinian writer, poet, professor and activist, killed in an Israeli air strike in Gaza on December 6, 2023 Interview by Fariba Amini Professor Rashid Ismail Khalidi is the […]
A Dangerous Profession, from Palestine to Iran: When Journalists are the Target
“Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.” – ― Stefan Zweig Throughout wars and even in the calmest situations, journalists, especially independent ones, have always been the target of their governments and their cadres. In this war, which is not […]
It is Genocide: Omer Bartov Interview
Newark, Del. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Fariba Amini writes: Omer Bartov recently wrote an Op-ed piece in the New York Times in which he described the war on Gaza as a genocide. His piece garnered a great deal of praise but also criticism by scholars and journalists who reject the term “genocide” for what […]
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