February 18, 2011
As dusk fell and the tear gas swirled through Enghelab Street, a dozen demonstrators huddled in a dark apartment-block basement...
February 18, 2011
The Green Movement is back, reinvigorated, and revived hopes dampened when the 2009 protests failed and the regime claimed total victory.
February 18, 2011
Rare footage of thousands of demonstrators as they took to the streets of the Iranian capital Tehran this week for their own “Day of Rage” in support of the Egyptian pro-democracy movement.
February 17, 2011
Setting aside the dissimilarities in the kind of regimes the Iranian and Arab protesters are taking on, the ways they behave reveal some major cultural differences.
February 12, 2011
Tehran says it is becoming self-sufficient in petrol, in the hope of warding off the pain of sanctions. But detractors say the method chosen is uneconomic and environmentally unfriendly.
February 7, 2011
Afghan officials say Iran was opposed to the building of the dam because it would divert water from the Farah river, which would particularly affect the Iranian province of Sistan and Baluchestan.
February 4, 2011
Undergoing surgery and then obtaining a certificate of virginity is viewed as deceit, but the practice is so prevalent that Iran’s ayatollahs, have been urged to issue definitive rulings.
February 2, 2011
Any democratic change in Arab states is likely to produce leaderships that are less hostile to Iran than the current ones and this will offer new avenues for Tehran to build influence in those countries.
January 31, 2011
Tochal is conveniently close to the city and is a hangout not just for hardened skiers, but for young men and women who want to escape the social constraints of daily life.
January 30, 2011
If public executions are so frequent that they numb the senses of those who witness them, they are also part of a wider culture in which the spectacle of death is accepted as normal.
