Omid Memarian is a journalist who writes for the IPS (Inter Press Service) news agency. Hs work has been published in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle. He was chief researcher for Reese Erlich’s book Iran Agenda: the Real Story of U.S. Policy and The Middle East Crisis (PoliPoint Press, 2007)

Omid Memarian received the Human Rights Watch's highest honour in 2005, the “Human Rights Defender Award”. He was a World Peace Fellow at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism in 2007-09. His blog is here

Recent articles

The result of Iran’s exciting presidential-election race is in the balance. But the campaign itself has revealed how Iranian society is changing, says Omid Memarian.

An elite reshuffle in Tehran marks a risky shift of strategy, says Omid Memarian.

The Sharm al-Sheikh conference to discuss Iraq could prove to be a pivotal event for Iran too, says Omid Memarian.

The Iranian president’s reaction to his election defeat is combining with a more assertive United States policy towards Iran to make early 2007 a moment of great regional danger, say Dariush Zahedi & Omid Memarian.

The humiliation of Iranian professionals by United States immigration officials harms all involved – and makes the struggle for democracy in Iran even harder, says journalist and award-winning human-rights activist Omid Memarian.