Choksy on Iran: 'situation very grave for Iranian people'

Indiana University professor of Iranian Studies and specialist on Iranian history and religions, Jamsheed Kairshasp Choksy, thinks the situation is very grave for the Iranian people. " "I think the situation is...

Reformist Khatami Set to Quit Iranian Presidential Race

The reformist Mohammed Khatami is set to withdraw from Iran's presidential race in June. Khatami, a former president of Iran between 1997 and 2005, was succeeded by the conservative Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who is...

Iran: Mir-Hossein Mousavi ponders on candidacy

" Mir-Hossein says he will ‘think’ of candidacy if Khatami stays out Tehran Times Political Desk TEHRAN, Nov. 17 (MNA) – Former prime minister Mir-Hossein Mousavi announced on Monday that if Mohmmad...

Iran elections: A Khatami's comeback?

As the Iranian conservative side is split over incumbent President Ahmadinejad, reformists try to persuade their former leader Mohammad Khatami  into entering the political race again. Khatami had declined...

Khatami: I will not run for president

Taking a rather big political step, Ex President Seyyed Mohammad Khatami announced he would not be running as a reformist candidate in the Presidential elections next June. This decision paves the way for other...

Iranians go to the polls today

Iranians will all be heading to the polls today to vote for a new government, but many are seeing the event as a contest between competing conservative factions, after the majority of reformist candidates were...

Iran's Khatami criticized for 'shaking woman's hand'

The extreme fundamentalism of Iranian society is becoming ever more apparent and, through vehicles such as blogs and YouTube, ever more public. The most recent case of an Iranian official violating Sharia law...