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Women, Life, Freedom: The story of Mahsa Amini

On September 13, 2022, Mahsa Zhina Amini was arrested by the “morality police” of Iran due to the fact that she was “improperly” wearing...

Only through sovereignty can all Kurds have a place to call...

The people of Kurdistan have faced violence as an ethnic minority and deserve their own state. They have populations that would make it one...

Persian Poetry and Prose opens IRANspiration

IRANspiration week started on Monday, Jan. 27. Students piled into HUB 377, picked up sandwiches and took seats for a lecture presented by Dr....

Europe must mediate the US-Iran conflict to save the nuclear deal

Britain, Germany and France recently triggered a dispute resolution process over Iran’s retreat from the original commitments of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. As...

Trump and Soleimani: the perfect example of “shoot first, ask...

“We took action last night to stop a war. We did not take action to start a war.” These were the words Donald Trump...

“Nuking” the Iran deal means an unstable and volatile world

Since President Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA – the “Iran deal”) in May 2018, the...

American military aggression against Iran is endangering our national security and...

On May 6, National Security Advisor John Bolton announced that the United States military was sending an aircraft carrier along with several other offensive...

Former UCR student presents on the Arab Spring

On Wednesday, Feb. 21, former UCR student and current UC Irvine sociology doctorate candidate Arman Azedi gave a lecture at UC Riverside focused on...

Personal freedom: Is Iran our new moral standard?

Corrupt autocracy. Theocratic oppression. Legal and illegal organ markets. If this description screamed “Iran” at you, you’d be correct. Recently, investigative work by the...

And then they came for the Baha’is…

Martin Niemoller, esteemed Lutheran pastor and valiant critic of Nazi German oppression, was made popular through his post-World War II statement, “First they came...