By James M. Dorsey A podcast version of this article is available at https://soundcloud.com/user-153425019/attack-in-iran-raises-spectre-of-a-potentially-far-larger-conflagration An attack on a military parade in the southern Iranian city of Ahwaz is likely to prompt Iranian retaliation against opposition...
[author title=”Pejvak Kokabian” image=”https://www.tribunezamaneh.com/archives/author/kokabian”][/author] Introduction The Ayyubid or Ayyoubid Empire (Arabic:الأيوبيون, Kurdish: ئەیوبی) was the Kurdish dynasty of sultans founded by Saladin (Salah al-Din ibn Al-Ayubbi) about 1171 CE. It ruled Egypt, Palestine, Syria, most...
Djene Bajalan The death in September of a 22-year-old Iranian Kurdish woman, Jîna (Mahsa) Amini, whilst in the custody of the Tehran branch of the Gasht-e Ershad—Iran’s “morality police”—served as the catalyst for a wave...
The book explore new multi-dimensional take-over of countries and how near colonizer and far colonizer has taken over the mind, land, institutions and monetary systems of majority of countries.Cocolonialism is the systematic oppression of a...
Behrooz Shojai Presented on Twitter Space, April 4, 2023 As Iran moved from a territorial empire to a modern one, the concept of sovereignty was redefined according to a mix of the Jacobinist notion of...
October 22, 2019 The Vice President Old Executive Office Building Washington, DC 20501 Dear Mr. Vice President, I consider it my duty and my honor to serve my people through my writing as a poet...
oilprice.com Tsvetana Paraskova The semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan in Iraq could see its oil production and exports halved within five years, further depleting the already drained coffers of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG). The investment...
The use of the word “Kurdistan” has once again become a matter of heated discussion in Turkey as the Kurdish people are increasingly targeted by leading Turkish political figures and the Turkish legal system. Most...
The US will withdraw her troops from Syria. Will they really? – Let’s take Trump at his word, just for argument’s sake. Though in the meantime, RT reports that the withdrawal may be slower than...
No other Mideast community (except Israel) has a closer relationship with the United States than the Iraqi Kurds, who have played a critical role in confronting ISIS. With the jihadis on the run, the Kurds.....