Challenges in recording race and ethnicity data in biomedical research: the French and Swedish perspectives
Ethnicity is an important variable to investigate in medical research.

Ethnicity is an important variable to investigate in medical research.
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The free world’s severance of diplomatic relations with Iran’s totalitarian regime is crucial to curbing the Islamic regime’s terror and espionage, write Arvin Khoshnood and Ardavan Khoshnood, Iran experts.
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The Iranian embassies around the world conduct serious crimes in the form of espionage and terrorism. Therefore, Sweden should close Iran’s embassy, writes Ardavan Khoshnood.
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Putin’s invasion of Ukraine was – contrary to popular belief – highly anticipated and Putin’s actions are in line with Russia’s security policy strategy. Putin is neither crazy nor unpredictable. It is also too early to say that the Russian invasion has failed because there are many indications that the Russian strategy is to exhaust…

The new president of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ebrahim Raisi, has selected cleric Esmail Khatib as Minister of Intelligence. Khatib is a radical Islamist with close ties to both Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. During his tenure, we can expect a more aggressive approach by the Ministry of Intelligence,…
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The Islamisc regime is outraged by a Swedish trial of a former mass murder official, and an Iranian documentary shows a kidnapped Swedish-Iranian in a propaganda campaign against Sweden, write our guest columnists Arvin and Ardavan Khoshnood.
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Iran’s new president has strong ties to the country’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei, and Iran will continue on the path of dictatorship and oppression, argue debaters Arvin and Ardavan Khoshnood in an analysis of the new president and Iran’s future under him.

The assassination of Iranian top nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh is one of numerous assassinations in Iran conducted by foreign powers ever since 2007. In the past six months, assassins have in addition to Fakhrizadeh also been able to kill Al-Qaida’s no. 2 on Iranian soil. The three most important organizations in the Iranian intelligence community…

The US Office of the Director of National Intelligence recently released its annual threat assessment, in which Iran is mentioned no fewer than 60 times as part of a “diverse array of threats” facing the US. Iran is moving toward its goal of full domination of Iraq and the expulsion of the last remaining US forces from that…