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Saba Farzan, a German-Iranian journalist, is Director of Political Studies at IMED, the Institute for Middle Eastern Democracy

Iran’s satirical reality

When I learned that the German Council on Foreign Relations planned on hosting Mohammad Javad Zarif, Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic, I even considered for a nano second......

Iranian freedom cancelled

In my devastation about the historic tragedy that the Geneva deal is, I turned yesterday to Marius Müller Westernhagen's Freedom song. This outstanding German musician performed his song when......

The Iranian Deal That Is a Good One

Sometime ago I mentioned at a conference in Rome that there's a similarity between the Iranian nuclear crisis and the writings of Paul Auster. Of course by that similarity......

Iranian Version of Groundhog Day

When dealing with the Iranian regime I'm often reminded of the movie "Groundhog Day". Bill Murray caught in a time trap and reliving the same day over and over......

Fraudulent Moves by a Fraudulent Regime

So this week we learned that Hassan Rouhani's Twitter account is a fraud. An information that shouldn't surprise us at all as the regime that created the fraud account......

American Delays and Israeli Nightmares

During the past years of Barack Obama’s presidency I’ve learned to never underestimate him – both in positive and negative terms. He deserves credit for being the second US......

Iranian intellectual hypocrisy

To describe Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s recent trip to Israel as significant is an understatement. It is truly historic on many levels. The Iranian film director’s personal journey from Islamist......

Teheran votes YES! on Hagel

How can a world leader know for certain that his policies are going in the wrong direction? One way is if this leader is praised for his policies towards......

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