Siavash Pendar

Jul 9, 2024 | worldcrunch.com | Jeff Israely |Siavash Pendar

-Essay-PARIS — Nations are a funny thing. Over the past two weeks, France has been gathering around its collective television set every few evenings for two very different kinds of national experiences. For the latest news & views from every corner of the world, Worldcrunch Today is the only truly international newsletter. Sign up here.

Jul 9, 2024 | flipboard.com | Siavash Pendar

The Zarif Card: Why Nobody Is Buying Tehran's Old "Reformist" Trick This TimeIran's electoral circus turned out to be as absurd as expected, doing nothing to boost its frayed legitimacy as hoped. The majority of votes did not …

Jul 9, 2024 | worldcrunch.com | Siavash Pendar |Christian Putsch

Geopolitics Newly elected Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian (C) speaks as former foreign minister Mohammed Javad Zarif (L) stands next to him after the presidential election at the shrine of the Islamic Republic's founder Ayatollah Khomeini in southern Tehran.

May 11, 2024 | worldcrunch.com | Siavash Pendar

-OpEd-Around 60 years ago when the last Shah of Iran, Mohammadreza Pahlavi, warned of a "red and black" alliance of Marxists and Islamists, many in Iran and the West laughed it off. For the latest news & views from every corner of the world, Worldcrunch Today is the only truly international newsletter. Sign up here. They scoffed at the idea of Communists and religious fanatics joining forces as a superficial, contradictory proposition.

May 11, 2024 | flipboard.com | Siavash Pendar

1 hour agoThe Dutch artist Joost Klein has been disqualified from the Eurovision Song Contest after a backstage incident. The performer has been sent home after an allegation of intimidation was made to Swedish police by a female member of the production crew. In a statement, the contest organisers said "it …