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Iran: Election and Its Discontents
Arseh Sevom — With election season on the horizon, speculation begins about likely candidates while officials create an atmosphere of insecurity with rumors and fear mongering. Civil society actors in...
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Iran: Mayday, May Day
The cost of currency combined with crippling sanctions is hurting all sectors of Iran’s society from business owners to pharmaceutical manufacturers to the population at large. Iron sellers went on...
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Iran: Ultra Democracy, Engineering Makes it So
Arseh Sevom — Mohammad Reza Sardari and Tori Egherman. In the most “engineered” of election campaigns since the inception of the Islamic Republic, candidates are surprised to find themselves censored....
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Desperately Seeking Birth Control in #Iran
Yaz, by Selbe B Narges Bajoghli recounts her problems gaining access to safe contraceptives in Iran. She writes, “I knew that Western sanctions against Iran had made it difficult if not impossible to...
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Iran Sanctions — More Pain, Less Gain?
Arseh Sevom – It seems that the least productive U.S. congress in more than 50 years, agrees on one thing: loading sanctions upon sanction on Iran. The new laws seem to be counter-productive, are...
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Iran — Sanctions Lock Doors for Civil Society
Arseh Sevom –For many civil society actors in Iran, the economic sanctions imposed by the United States and the international community have multiplied the hardships they face from their own...
View ArticleReports on Sanctions
There have been a number of reports on sanctions and their effects on Iranians. This post includes a number of links to those reports. The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran published a...
View Article#Iran–I Want My Google Play
Arseh Sevom — Budget shortfalls have wreaked havoc on the state of Iran’s healthcare, which is facing more than one billion euros of debt. Since sanctions were loosened on personal electronics,...
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#Iran: Can Word Games Lead to Action and Real Change
Arseh Sevom–While the war in Syria may become an international war soon, Iran and America have been engaged in some pre-diplomatic word games. Will Ta’amol, the Persian word for mutual action, enter...
View ArticleUS Sanctions Law Shuts Down Online Courses in #Iran
Arseh Sevom — No more pencils, no more books for students of Coursera living in sanctioned countries. This week, the online education service, Coursera, was blocked in Iran, Syria, Sudan, and Cuba as a...
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