Iran – The Barricade

The occidentosis and the modernization of Iran

Vladimir Mitev
Education
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The Islamic Revolution in Iran (1979) has been resonating as an event of prime importance in its region for the last 40 years. It is one of the first cases, when the political islam takes...

Farshad Golzari: Turkish-Iranian relations will not be affected by the tensions in the Caucasus

Vladimir Mitev
Global affairs
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Farshad Golzari has been working as a journalist in the field of international politics and security since 2013. His bachelor's degree in criminal law and master's degree in criminology have led him to spend years...

Iran fights for life. COVID-19 and murderous sanctions

Małgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat
Analysis
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An earlier version of this article was published on 23 March 2020 at the Polish site ”Strajk.eu”. Every hour in Iran, 50 people get infected with coronavirus and every 10 minutes someone dies - this...

If the government in Iran changes, a new agreement with the USA is possible

Vladimir Mitev
Interviews
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[caption id="attachment_1655" align="alignleft" width="350"] Farzad Ramezani Bonesh (foto: Farzad Ramezani Bonesh)[/caption] Farzad Ramezani Bonesh is an Iranian senior researcher and analyst on regional and international issues, with a focus on the Persian Gulf and South...

Farid Ghadami: Most Iranian intellectuals are left-wing

Vladimir Mitev
Art & culture
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Farid Ghadami is an Iranian professor of mechanical engineering as well as a prolific writer and translator. He has written fiction books, books of literary criticism, science manuals and has translated a number of English-language...

The anti-Iranian axis cracks

Vladimir Mitev
Analysis
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The world media reports abundantly on the escalation of tensions in the Middle East. In the hot summer of 2019 we followed the takedown of an American drone, which Iran claimed entered its aerial space....

Who gets isolated by the anti-Iranian sanctions – Tehran or Trump?

Vladimir Mitev
Analysis
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”Our revolution was not a fundamentalist revolution advocating a return to the past... The progress we are familiar with was the modernity we experienced before the revolution and we saw that it did not lead...

New Year’s winds of war

Boyan Stanislavski
Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe
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Another record of New Year’s pyrotechnical goods consumption was probably beaten this year. It is a pity though, that no one thought that we could spend one of the upcoming New Year’s Eves in nuclear...

Iranian protests demand that the authorities in Tehran take a new course

Vladimir Mitev
Analysis
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Demonstrations put the status-quo under doubt, but the different groups define it differently. Iranian protests that started in the end of 2017 have made the American president Donald Trump happy. He expressed his support for...

Two Iranian Studies events in Sofia pledge regional cooperation

Vladimir Mitev
Bulgaria
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Globalisation and regionalization don’t depend only on economic issues, but can be spurred also by purely cultural and scientific interests. This is what two Iranian Studies events in Sofia showed in the middle of September....

The occidentosis and the modernization of Iran

Farshad Golzari: Turkish-Iranian relations will not be affected by the tensions in the Caucasus

Iran fights for life. COVID-19 and murderous sanctions

If the government in Iran changes, a new agreement with the USA is possible

Farid Ghadami: Most Iranian intellectuals are left-wing

The anti-Iranian axis cracks

Who gets isolated by the anti-Iranian sanctions – Tehran or Trump?

New Year’s winds of war

Two Iranian Studies events in Sofia pledge regional cooperation

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