Professor Payam Akhavan, an Iranian-Canadian lawyer, human rights activist, and professor at McGill University in Montreal. Mr. Akhavan, who has been actively pursuing cases of human rights violations around the world for two decades, including as a former prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, has made significant efforts to […]...

Conversation with Simin Rouzgar Dr. Ali Diniterkamani, a graduate of the Economic Development program at the University of Tehran, is currently an assistant professor at the Institute of Commercial Studies and Research. Over the past two decades, in addition to ten books and one hundred articles authored or translated by Dr. Diniterkamani have been published. […]...

  . Conversation with Ali Kalai Giti Pourfazl, a first-degree lawyer and member of the Bar Association, received her lawyer’s license in the last year before the revolution, in February 1979. After the victory of the revolution, due to her criticisms of the new legal structure established in the new system, her license was revoked […]...

  Mustafa Rahmani Sara Shourd, an American journalist, in 2009 while hiking in Iraq with two other American citizens named Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal, accidentally entered Iranian territory. This incident led to their arrest by Iranian security forces. These three American citizens spent 410 days in solitary confinement in Evin prison. Ms. Shourd, after […]...

  Conversation with Ali Kalaii Mehrdad Darvishpour, born in September 1339 in Tehran, has completed his PhD in Sociology at Stockholm University in Sweden and is currently a university professor and deputy professor at Mälardalen University. Mr. Darvishpour, who has been working on developing political theories since the age of 20, has published numerous articles […]...

Conversation with Simin Rouzgar. Hassan Yousefi Eshkevari, a writer, researcher, and religious scholar, is the first representative of the first term of the Islamic Consultative Assembly in Iran. His speech at the Berlin Conference caused a lot of controversy; after the conference, Mr. Eshkevari was arrested and initially sentenced to death by the Tehran clergy […]...

Mohsen Nejat Hosseini is a graduate of the Master’s program in Chemical Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Tehran. While studying, he also participated in the political and social struggles of his time and was one of the founding members of the People’s Mujahedin of Iran organization. Nejat Hosseini was active […]...

Conversation with Mani Tehrani Although we still cannot comfortably say that the world around us is an ideal place to live, if we look back, this world has become a better place every day. Humanity, which has experienced trials such as the Inquisition, Auschwitz, Stalin’s forced labor camps, and exploitation of African Americans in North […]...

  Conversation with Simin Rouzgar Bahá’ís in Iran can be considered as the most marginalized individuals. They are not only deprived of the right to education in universities and higher education centers, or the right to employment in government offices, but they also face various insults and humiliations in their daily lives. Even after their […]...

  Conversation with Mani Tehrani Sometimes we imagine that we have reached a world where public torture of humans is intertwined with history or even mythology, and at the same time, a reminder like the whip on the backs of the workers of the Agh Darreh gold mine in West Azerbaijan, Iran, disturbs our naive […]...