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Huffington Post
January 5, 2017
Is there any hope for positive political developments and move toward democracy in Iran, or the hardliners have shut all the doors for the foreseeable future? Perhaps the fate of the leaders of Iran's Green Movement - former Prime Minister Mir Hossein Mousavi and his wife Dr. Zahra Rahnavard, and formerÃÂ ...
Huffington Post
December 19, 2016
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been ill for quite some time, and over the years there have been speculations on his possible successor. The developments over the past year indicate that a possible successor is emerging. Though it may be hard for some to believe, the possible successor is someoneÃÂ ...
Huffington Post
July 7, 2015
Ever since nuclear negotiations between the administration of President Hassan Rouhani of Iran and P5+1 - the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council plus Germany - began, and especially after the Lausanne Accord was announced in April, the opponents of the nuclearÃÂ ...
The Atlantic
April 21, 2015
Last week, Akbar Ganji wrote one of the most important essays published since the signing of the framework nuclear deal with Iran earlier this month. It's partly important because of who Ganji is. Imprisoned in 2001 for accusing Iranian officials of orchestrating the murder of government critics, he penned aÃÂ ...
Foreign Affairs
April 1, 2015
Over the last several years, the Iranian rumor mill has churned out a steady stream of tales about the imminent death of Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, 75. Given Khamenei's advanced age, regardless of whether he is ill or not, a succession may happen sooner rather than later. The IranianÃÂ ...
Huffington Post
January 21, 2014
Akbar Ganji is an Iranian journalist often referred to as Iran's “pre-eminent political dissident” after spending 6 years in jail for his human rights activities. The nuclear agreement between Iran and the P5+1 has provoked considerable debate. The proponents of diplomatic resolution of the standoff with Iran have praised theÃÂ ...
Foreign Affairs
November 10, 2013
It is fair to assume that any deal between Iran and the United States to freeze Iran's nuclear program will be greeted by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps with cries of “Death to America!” Hassan Rouhani was elected president earlier this year with a mandate to seek just such a deal. But he still has toÃÂ ...
Foreign Affairs
August 19, 2013
In June, Hassan Rouhani was elected president of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Rouhani ran as a reform candidate, and many have interpreted his victory as a harbinger of a possible liberalization or rationalization of Iranian domestic and foreign policy. But the dominant figure in Iranian politics is not the president but ratherÃÂ ...
Reason (blog)
December 31, 1999
We saw it in the 2000s with a figure that I wrote a lot about at the time named Akbar Ganji who now lives in Toronto, but he was in jail and he got a lot of attention because he wrote an open letter to the supreme leader, Ayatollah Khomeini saying, 'You should stand for an election.' We saw it again in 2009ÃÂ ...
Trend News Agency
October 14, 2017
Akbar Ganji, a political analyst and an author, believes that the world leaders should prevent any possibilities of waging wars and attempts to ...
Jacobin magazine
January 18, 2017
When the veteran candidate appeared at Tehran University to this end, he responded to students chanting the name of Akbar Ganji — an ...
Huffington Post
January 5, 2017
Is there any hope for positive political developments and move toward democracy in Iran, or the hardliners have shut all the doors for the ...
Huffington Post
December 19, 2016
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been ill for quite some time, and over the years there have been speculations on his possible successor.
Huffington Post
December 2, 2016
During his campaign for presidency and afterwards, President-Elect Donald Trump has expressed his opposition to military intervention in other countries, ...
The Guardian (blog)
November 2, 2015
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks in a meeting with foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and the country's diplomats in ...
Huffington Post
June 30, 2015
The June 30 deadline for the nuclear negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 group — the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council plus ...
The Atlantic
April 21, 2015
Last week, Akbar Ganji wrote one of the most important essays published since the signing of the framework nuclear deal with Iran earlier this ...
Foreign Affairs
April 1, 2015
Over the last several years, the Iranian rumor mill has churned out a steady stream of tales about the imminent death of Iran's Supreme Leader, ...
Huffington Post
January 21, 2014
Akbar Ganji is an Iranian journalist often referred to as Iran's “pre-eminent political dissident” after spending 6 years in jail for his human rights activities.
Payvand
February 23, 2017
"He also posted photos of people like [former Crown Prince] Reza Pahlavi, [former President] Abolhassan Banisadr and [political commentator in exile] Akbar Ganji..." "But after 2011, he had no [political] activities and after hearing (President Hassan)ÃÂ ...
Cato Institute (blog)
January 25, 2017
Akbar Ganji In its ongoing crackdown on advocates of free speech, human rights and other liberties, China's communist party has shut down the website of Milton Friedman Prize winner Mao Yushi's think tank.
Jacobin magazine
January 18, 2017
When the veteran candidate appeared at Tehran University to this end, he responded to students chanting the name of Akbar Ganji - an imprisoned journalist and public intellectual, who had famously characterized Rafsanjani as Iran's very own CardinalÃÂ ...
Global Voices Online
January 17, 2017
In 2000, investigative journalist Akbar Ganji identified Rafsanjani as one of the principal figures behind the assassination in his book His Red-Robed Highness.
South China Morning Post
November 2, 2016
But the Iranian writer Akbar Ganji, a victim of Mortazavi's targeting of journalists, said the sentencing was a "whitewash".
Cato Institute
May 25, 2016
The previous winners are: former deputy prime minister and finance minister of Poland Leszek Balcerowicz; dissident Chinese economist Mao Yushi; Iranian writer and journalist Akbar Ganji; a leader of the Venezuelan student pro-democracy movement, YonÃÂ ...
Huffington Post
May 20, 2016
The shock waves emanating from Donald Trump becoming the presumptive Republican candidate for President have not subsided. Much of the world is alarmed over the statements and policy pronouncements that he has been making, and the racist andÃÂ ...
Huffington Post
April 20, 2016
Recent nuclear agreements between Iran and Western countries, led by the United States, have been well-received by the Iranian people.
New Matilda
March 29, 2016
In April 2015, Iranian dissident Akbar Ganji observed that Iranians can't "create a peaceful democracy in the shadow and threat of war.
Huffington Post
March 24, 2016
Many have been surprised by the racist statements by Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, the two leading contenders for the GOP presidential nomination.
Christian Science Monitor
March 23, 2016
When Akbar Ganji, a prominent reformist investigative journalist went on a hunger strike in prison, Tehran's prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi called his act illegal.
New Matilda
March 29, 2016
In April 2015, Iranian dissident Akbar Ganji observed that Iranians can't "create a peaceful democracy in the shadow and threat of war.
Huffington Post
March 24, 2016
Many have been surprised by the racist statements by Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, the two leading contenders for the GOP presidential nomination.
Christian Science Monitor
March 23, 2016
When Akbar Ganji, a prominent reformist investigative journalist went on a hunger strike in prison, Tehran's prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi called his act illegal.
The National Interest Online
March 9, 2016
Hassan Rouhani was elected Iran's president in June 2013 based on his promise of reaching a nuclear agreement and improving the relations with the West.
TheTower.org
March 7, 2016
... "To understand the degree of Iran's political stagnation, consider this bit of history. When Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani was president of Iran in the 1990s, the journalist Akbar Ganji documented Rafsanjani's role in the murder of dissidents and ...
Huffington Post
March 2, 2016
About a month before the elections, Iranian investigative journalist and human rights advocate Akbar Ganji published an article in which he suggested that people should try to block the election to the assembly of three powerful and reactionary ...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
February 28, 2016
Those who made the accusations included journalist Akbar Ganji, another former postrevolutionary Iranian president at a German terrorism trial, and an Argentine investigator into the deadly bombing of a Jewish center in Buenos Aires in 1994.
Chicago Tribune
February 26, 2016
To understand the degree of Iran's political stagnation, consider this bit of history. When Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani was president of Iran in the 1990s, the journalist Akbar Ganji documented Rafsanjani's role in the murder of dissidents and ...
The Guardian (blog)
February 26, 2016
As a Minister of Intelligence during the Rafsanjani presidency, Fallahian was accused of involvement by journalists, including Akbar Ganji, Emadeddin Baghi, and politicians such as Mostafa Tajzadeh, in killing dissidents. Fallahian is also on Interpol ...
Al-Monitor
February 24, 2016
Amid the launch of the "No to these 5" (hard-liners on Jannati's ticket) campaign on social media, prominent dissident Akbar Ganji and BBC Persian separately published articles that examined and analyzed this strategy to sideline hard-liners. Hard ...
Foreign Policy (blog)
February 15, 2016
On Feb 11, 2015, Akbar Ganji, an Iranian investigative journalist and dissident who is a friend of the "Greens" and imprisoned in Tehran from 2000 to 2006, stated that, "Since February 2011 the leaders of Iran's Green Movement, former Prime Minister ...
New York Times
February 1, 2016
There's the writer Akbar Ganji, a Revolutionary Guardsman in the 1980s, who became a liberal agitator and one of the Islamic Republic's most formidable political prisoners.
The Guardian (blog)
January 27, 2016
When Khatami swept to office in 1997, the Rafsanjani presidency was seen by reformists as "patriarchal" and financially corrupt.
The Atlantic
January 26, 2016
Akbar Ganji, perhaps Iran's most prominent dissident, told me via email that he backs normalization. In an open letter last August, 74 well-known Iranian critics of the regime wrote that, "Movement toward normalization of Iran's international relations ...
The Atlantic
January 27, 2016
But it's significant that Iran's hard-liners, who use the supposed American threat to justify their brutality, oppose normalization most vociferously.
The Guardian (blog)
January 27, 2016
When Khatami swept to office in 1997, the Rafsanjani presidency was seen by reformists as "patriarchal" and financially corrupt.
Huffington Post
January 20, 2016
It is often said that the foreign policy of a country is a reflection of its domestic one. This is particularly true about Iran, where the hardliners, and reformists and moderates espouse two starkly different domestic policies, the result of which is ...
NonDoc
January 18, 2016
So far, Rouhani has had to work with a parliament aligned mostly with hardliners like ex-President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, but the hope among Western diplomats and Iranian dissidents, like journalist Akbar Ganji, is that Rouhani's popularity during theÃÂ ...
Hidyatullah.com mengabarkan kebenaran
January 14, 2016
Akbar Ganji, yang juga ditangkap pemerintah Iran karena menghadiri konferensi di Jerman pada tahun 2000 bersama Eshkevari dan beberapa orang lainnya, mengklaim telah mengalami penyiksaan di penjara Evin.
Huffington Post
December 18, 2015
Iranian dissident Akbar Ganji discusses the role of Ayatollahs and Muftis in challenging narratives that claim pious motives in acts of terror.
