Downfall of the ayatollahs: Strategic hope for the future, Persia-centric Middle East

Downfall of the ayatollahs: Strategic hope for the future, Persia-centric Middle East

Special to WorldTribune.com By Gregory R. Copley, and Dr. Assad Homayoun GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs I’ve reached the end of this great history And all the land will talk of me: I shall not die, these seeds I’ve sown will save My name and reputation from the grave, And men of sense and wisdom will […]

A brief tutorial for The Guardian’s anonymous correspondent in Iran

A brief tutorial for The Guardian’s anonymous correspondent in Iran

Special to WorldTribune.com By Sheda Vasseghi If you don’t read the newspaper you are uninformed; if you do, you are misinformed. – Mark Twain (1835-1910) In response to the unnamed Tehran Bureau correspondent of The Guardian and his/her June 17, 2015 article, the following: In a “conceptual” post-Information Age, the anonymous correspondent from The Guardian […]

Credit where credit is due: The Carter Administration and Iran’s fall to militant Islam

Credit where credit is due: The Carter Administration and Iran’s fall to militant Islam

Special to WorldTribune.com By Dario de Persis The question of whose actions — or inactions — contributed to the downfall of the Shah of Iran in and by extension, the success of the Islamic revolution in Iran in 1978-79, is again relevant. As was the case then, the U.S. and Israel are again preoccupied with […]

Memoir of Iran under a relatively tolerant Shah before the Left paved the way for revolution

Memoir of Iran under a relatively tolerant Shah before the Left paved the way for revolution

Special to WorldTribune.com By Gregory R. Copley, Editor, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs The original volume of [former Foreign Minister of Iran under the late Shah] Ardeshir Zahedi’s memoirs, … forced a recalibration of 20th Century Iranian history and the role of the international community in Iran. … Subsequent reporting has vindicated Amb. Zahedi’s revelation that […]