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About Arash Falasiri

Arash Falasiri worked as a journalist in Iran for more than a decade. He won the national prize for the best journalist of the year in 2001. He is now a postgraduate research student in Social and Political Thought at York University, Canada.

Articles by Arash Falasiri

Friday 4th November

Iranians' choice in the face of war

Arash Falasiri, 4 November 2011

Signals that military action against Iran is a real danger have been multiplying over the past twelve months. Faced with external military intervention and internal repression, Arash Falasiri asks what course remains open to the Iranian people.

Monday 17th October

Iran's message in a bottle

Arash Falasiri, 17 October 2011

Allegations of an Iranian assassination attempt to be carried out in Washington has prompted diverse responses and analyses. Here, Arash Falasiri depicts an Islamic Republic fighting for its life in increasingly unfavourable circumstances and a Revolutionary Guard determined to capture still more of the public and economic sphere under the spectre of war.

Tuesday 1st March

Iran's Green Movement: decapitated but not defeated

Arash Falasiri, 1 March 2011

The arrest of Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, the defeated presidential candidates and leaders of Iran's Green Movement marks a new phase of repression in Iran. But a leaderless movement may emerge from this crisis united and all the stronger, as Egypt and Tunisia's protest movements have shown, argues Arash Falasiri.

Friday 25th February

Gaddafi: a model for the middle east's "mad men"

Arash Falasiri, 25 February 2011

Gaddafi's resistance to popular demands and violent response presents a new model for regimes to resist democratic uprisings with extreme violence, mercenary arms, and the suppression of communications. Either countermeasures are adopted that limit the power of regimes to suppress their people, or citizens will continue to die at the hands of mad men.

Wednesday 1st September

The Iranian regime thrives on the spectre of military confrontation

Arash Falasiri, 1 September 2010

The increasingly militarised confrontation between the United States, Israel and Iran only strengthens the Ahmadinejad regime's intransigence, allowing it to side step an ongoing crisis of legitimacy.

Wednesday 9th June