Fariba Amini

1 week ago | juancole.com | Fariba Amini |Juan Cole

Out beyond the ideas of wrongdoing and right doing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there.        –Rumi Like the rest of the world, I got up on Friday morning June 13 to hear the shocking news. It was truly Friday the 13th. When asked sometimes before where I am originally from, I used to tell people jokingly that I come from the country that will be the next to be attacked by Israel; I said it jokingly, yet I always feared what I said.  I was wrong. Many analysts were wrong.

3 weeks ago | juancole.com | Fariba Amini |Juan Cole

“Russia’s role in Iranian history since the nineteenth century is well known, to be sure.

2 months ago | juancole.com | Fariba Amini |Juan Cole

George B. Lambrakis was a State Department Foreign Service officer from 1957 to 1985, after two years with USIS in Vietnam and Laos. He served in Iran during the Islamic Revolution 1978-1979. He was interviewed by Fariba Amini. Fariba Amini: The first Trump administration abandoned the JCPOA.   Why do you think now in his second term, Trump is eager to make a deal?   What has changed? George B. Lambrakis: Trump’s actions can be anybody’s guess.

Feb 21, 2025 | znetwork.org | Miko Peled |Fariba Amini |Interview Palestine

Interview by Fariba Amini with Miko Peled, Israeli peace activist and Director of Palestine Freedom House. F.A. You were raised in a Zionist family.   You also served in the Israeli army. Your father, Matti Peled was a general during the 1967 war. You sister, Nurit who is an educator lost her daughter who was 12 years old in an attack on a street in Jerusalem.  How and why did you change despite all the trauma in your family? I don’t believe I changed. What changed was what I knew.