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Tuesday, May 21, 2013

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Foreign and Defense Policy, Middle East and North Africa

Khomeini’s granddaughter on Facebook

Ali Alfoneh | November 5, 2012, 11:17 am

According to a US government estimate, there are as many as 14 million Facebook users inside of Iran despite Facebook being blocked for use by Iranian service providers. One of those users is none other than Mrs. Naeimeh Eshraghi, granddaughter … read more >

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Foreign and Defense Policy, Middle East and North Africa

Khamenei and Ahmadinejad’s Iran: Neither freedom nor bread

Ali Alfoneh | October 3, 2012, 2:45 pm

There is neither freedom nor bread for people in Khamenei and Ahmadinejad’s Iran. read more >

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Foreign and Defense Policy, Middle East and North Africa

Black Monday in Iran: Free fall of the rial

Ali Alfoneh | October 1, 2012, 3:54 pm

Iranians are getting poorer by the hour. Monday morning, the Iranian public woke up to news of further decline in the value of the rial against the dollar. According to BBC Persian, the rial plunged to 34,500 rial to the … read more >

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Foreign and Defense Policy, Middle East and North Africa

Harder times in Iran

Ali Alfoneh | September 4, 2012, 2:49 pm

Regardless of the calculations of the regime, Iran is bound to experience harder times. read more >

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Foreign and Defense Policy, Middle East and North Africa

Iran hosts the Non-Aligned Movement Summit: So what?!

Ali Alfoneh | August 27, 2012, 10:52 am

As the sixteenth summit of the Non-Aligned Movement kicked off in Tehran, the state controlled media in Iran is communicating a simple message to the domestic and international public: Iran is not diplomatically isolated. For weeks the Iranian press has … read more >

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