EghtesadOnline: Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani has hailed the victory of democracy and national will over "a desperate bid" in Turkey to topple the country’s government through an military coup.

EghtesadOnline: Facebook Inc. acknowledged today that social media can have a negative impact on democracies, and that the company has more work to do in order to ensure that the good outweighs the bad.

EghtesadOnline: China’s state media used Donald Trump’s inauguration as U.S. president to warn about the perils of democracy , touting the relative stability of the Communist system as President Xi Jinping heads toward a twice-a-decade reshuffle of senior leadership posts.