Heather Robinson

This week tens of thousands of green-clad Iranian protestors resumed their struggle for freedom on the streets of Teheran.

An argument can be made that in remaining silent during the initial days of June’s protests, President Obama was denying the mullahs ammunition to delegitimize the protestors. But the demonstrators disagree: just this week they shouted, …

Last week brought the revelation that Iran has an additional secret nuclear enrichment facility inside a mountain near the city of Qum in addition to its much larger enrichment complex at Natanz.

There is now zero doubt that Iran, a country that has pledged genocidal threat against Israel, is on the fast track towards attaining …

Tomorrow (Thursday September 24), thousands of Iranian-Americans will gather at noon outside the United Nations, in Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, Second Avenue and 47th Street, to protest the human rights abuses and fraudulent Presidential election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Thousands of Jewish-Americans will join them.

We will also be standing up to condemn …

Congratulations to the people of Lebanon who this week cast their votes against extremism and brutality.

The dynamic of extremists and elites who refuse compromise, and are inclined to seize power, imposing their will on a pliant, intimidated majority, has been repeated countless times throughout history. The extremists, the hyper-aggressive types, the …

Saturday’s provincial elections in Iraq were a great triumph for democracy worldwide and especially for the Iraqi people. William Shawcross in The Guardian has written an excellent column on the subject.

For the first time in Iraq’s democratic history, Iraqis handled security themselves - a remarkable accomplishment.

When considering the courage …