Soulmaz Sharif: The view of officials towards women’s sports is from top to bottom / Simin Rouzgar.

  Simin Rouzgar Solmaz Sharif, who has years of experience as a sports journalist in Iranian media, launched the weekly magazine “Shirzan” in 2007 after immigrating to the United States. This was the first independent media outlet dedicated to women’s sports, with the aim of filling the gap in coverage of this field in national […]...

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Tonia Vali Oghli: Female athletes are being used for advertising / Siavash Khoramgah

Tonia Vali Oghli has been a member of the Iranian national swimming team since the age of 12 and holds records in the 200-meter and 100-meter backstroke, as well as the 400-meter individual medley in the 7th Asian Games held in Tehran in 1974. She has a history of participating in multiple world competitions and […]...

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Ayatollah Abdulhamid Masoumi Tehrani: If we have a constitution, fatwas have no meaning / Morteza Hamounian

Ayatollah Abdolhamid Masoumi Tehrani, a well-known cleric, resides in Tehran. In the past three decades, due to his activities and unique religious views, he has experienced imprisonment, torture, and security confrontations in the Islamic Republic. He has always strived to emphasize coexistence among religions and denominations in all parts of the world. This calligrapher, painter, […]...

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Nemat Ahmadi: From the time of Khalkhali until now, we have only intensified punishment / Siavash Khoramgah

Last year, the Islamic Consultative Assembly announced the amendment of the Anti-Drug Law in order to create a glimmer of hope in this area. In this plan, the representatives of the Assembly demanded the elimination of the death penalty for drug-related crimes, except in cases of armed trafficking or organized groups. According to the resolution […]...

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Mohammad Saifzadeh: Drug offenders should not be imprisoned / Morteza Hamounian

Seyed Mohammad Seifzadeh is a human rights lawyer. He is one of the founders of the Human Rights Defenders Association and spent several years in prison after the events of the 2009 presidential election. Seifzadeh has been actively working in various legal and human rights fields for years and has represented many political, security, and […]...

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Death in a Circle of Life; Conversations with Seven Executed Drug Prisoners/ Simin Rouzgar

Simin Rouzgar The rights of prisoners and their families are one of the most important topics in human rights. One of the prerequisites for enforcing these rights is the proper identification and understanding of prisoners accused of various crimes and awareness of their conditions. In addition, achieving such understanding plays a significant role in research […]...

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How well do we know small-scale drug dealers? / Simin Rouzgar

Simin Rouzgar The Glasgow school believes that news does not reflect the world, but rather shapes it. This definition means that the way an event is reported is more influenced by the political and social world surrounding it. The findings of research from this school not only question the impartiality of dominant media, but also […]...

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Do you hear our voice? / Saeed Modani

This is a caption. Saeed Madani A rapper has recently released a song called “National Garden” in which he attempts to depict the social situation and crises in Iranian society. In this music video, the voices of countless victims of social damages cry out to the authorities: “Do you hear our voices?” Now I, alongside […]...

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Professor Payam Akhavan: Have they even asked for forgiveness? / Morteza Hamounian

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 […]...

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Dr. Ali Diniterkamani: Corruption is like a termite that eats away at the health of society / Simin Rouzgar.

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. […]...

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Giti Pourfadel: The Iranian judicial system is complicit in administrative corruption / Ali Kalaii

  . 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 […]...

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Exposing Grand Corruption: Behind the Scenes of Power Struggle / Reza Haghighatnejad

This is a caption “This is a caption” Reza Haghighatnejad Mojtaba Zolnoor, the representative of the hardline faction in Qom city, warned Hassan Rouhani, the president of Iran, on August 19th to declare his position on the accusations against his brother, Hossein Fereydoun. Three members of the tenth parliament have also written a letter to […]...

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