Omid Memarian is an Iranian journalist and civil-society activist. He was awarded Human Rights Watch’s highest honour, the Human Rights Defender award, in 2005. In that year, he was a visiting scholar at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. Omid Memarian's blog is here.

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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.