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 PhD candidate in Social and Political Thought at York University, Canada.
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Published in: openSecurityIran behind the conciliatory veilRight-wing US and Israeli venom against the outline agreement is one thing; genuine concern about the Islamic...
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Published in: openSecurityObama's human-rights lacuna in struggle against ‘extremism’The US president went on the front foot against fundamentalist violence in the Middle East at a summit in...
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Published in: openSecurityThe new Russian power blocA quarter century after Mikhail Gorbachev supervised the collapse of Europe’s cold-war division, a world of new...
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Published in: openSecurityHarper’s discordant notesUnlike the US, Canada has always had a positive reputation in the strife-tone Middle East as an impartial broker and...
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Published in: openSecurityIran nuclear deal: the fall-outThe interim nuclear deal between the western powers and Iran faces significant domestic and international...
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Published in: openSecurityReaping the political rewards of the Iranian nuclear crisisBoth Iranian and Israeli governments mutually benefit from the threat of war, as they both use the excuse to polish...