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Iran: All’s Not Well in the World of Cinema
Whether it is preventing filmmakers from making films or protesting the decisions of international festivals and awards committees, film has been in the news lately when it comes to the Islamic...
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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’s Military-Electoral Quagmire
Arseh Sevom – Over the years, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Basij have become increasingly active in the political sphere, interfering with the operation of free and fair elections with...
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Iran: Monitoring Out of Country Voting
The International Electoral Education Council (IEEC) is currently focusing on upcoming elections in several countries, including the June 14 elections in Iran. One of the programs being undertaken by...
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Annual Report 2012: Letter from the President
Arseh Sevom–The complete annual report for 2012 is now ready for reading. The report does more than outline our organization’s accomplishments and finances over the past year, it also presents an...
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Iran: Electoral Shock
Arseh Sevom — With only a few weeks until the elections, it’s no surprise that our review focuses on recent developments. The disqualifications of former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjan and Mahmoud...
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Hope Concert
Iranian-American journalist and peace activist Roxana Saberi, who will present the HOPE Concert at the Velodrom in Berlin on June 7, announces the concert at a press conference on May 21, 2013. 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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Iran Elections: Celebration Now, A Long and Unpredictable Path Ahead
Arseh Sevom with Global Voices — In the past few days there have been threats against the families of BBC reporters. The Internet in Iran was slowed to a crawl. The Iranian Cyber Army launched botnet...
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House of Cinema Attacked
Arseh Sevom – July 15, 2013, was another in a long list of bad days for Iran’s beleaguered House of Cinema. On the order of the Ministry of Culture, the building that houses the organization was...
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Security Forces Unlawfully Close Iran’s House of Cinema
Arseh Sevom believes that the interference from governmental bodies and security forces is the primary cause for the problems facing one of the biggest NGOs in Iran. What has happened to the members...
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International Civil Society: Need for Global Solidarity
Towards a common idea of international protection for civil society In a new series, Arseh Sevom summarizes reports on civil society throughout the world. This post looks at the 2012 publication of...
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Desperately Seeking Birth Control in #Iran
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 procure many...
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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...
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What is the Green Movement Dreaming About?
The Green Movement four years after the 2009 protests Arseh Sevom: The Hivos report, The Green Movement: Seizing the State or Democratizing Society, was timely released in the wake of Iran’s 2013...
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The Green Movement and Avoiding Violent Opposition
Arseh Sevom–The presence of women in the public demonstrations of the Green Movement before and after Iran’s 2009 presidential elections was undeniable. They were on the front lines, in public,...
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#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 — Fearing the Tyrant Not the Change
The Green Movement:Seizing the State or Democratizing Society? Edited by Shervin Nekuee, published by the Hivos Knowledge Programme Arseh Sevom–The final post of a three-part series summarizingthe...
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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...
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