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In Focus | Nasrin Sotoudeh Ends Hunger Strike after Daughter's Travel Ban Lifted
Human rights champion halts perilous seven-week protest after primary demand is met. [ in focus ] Jailed human rights lawyer and journalist Nasrin Sotoudeh ended a hunger strike of 49 days after...
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Debate | A Democratic and Unified Opposition Is a Strategic Imperative
'A frank dialogue to address contentious issues and break longstanding taboos.' Loghman H. Ahmedi is the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan's head of foreign relations. All opinions are his own. [...
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Media Watch | Conservative Bloggers in Iran: Beheshti and Citing Ahmadinejad
Despite the impression often given by the Western media, conservative opinion in Iran is far from monolithic. There is, in fact, an immense diversity of opinion among pro-government Iranians. This is...
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Diaspora | Community (Re)Defined: Hailing Successes, Recognizing Failures
Reflections on ten years working for the Iranian American community. Ramin Bajoghli is the President of the Board of Advisors of Iranian Alliances Across Borders (IAAB), a non-profit organization that...
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Elections | Defining Democracy Down: Iran's New Presidential Election Law
A lesson in the utility of an unpopular chief executive. [ news analysis ] Two major events recently took place within the recondite realm of Iranian power politics that on initial view may appear to...
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News | Majles Backflips in Election Law Folly; What's New Is Old in Nuke Policy
Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. Tehran Bureau has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their...
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Passport | A Gulf, a Strait, and a Sea
Images of Bandar-e Abbas, Chah Bahar, Hormuz, and Qeshm. Riccardo Zipoli was born in Prato, Italy, in 1952. He teaches Persian Language and Literature and Conceiving and Producing Photography at Ca'...
View ArticleMedia Watch | How Well Do Iranian Officials Speak English?
Answer: not as well as its citizens. [ video ] Young Iranians start learning English in school in the sixth grade. Many still younger. "Iranians are obsessed with having their kids speak English," one...
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History | On Iranians, Drinking Wine, and Cultural Stereotyping
Foreign fantasies of excess versus a tradition of moderation. [ idē ] From archaeological excavations that suggest northwest Iran was one of the earliest places where wine was produced -- more than...
View ArticleComment | Against a Shattered Justice System, the Power of YouTube
How viral video can make a difference for Iranians. [ opinion ] Despite the Iranian government's well-documented lack of respect for its citizens' civil and political rights, it readily bemoans and...
View ArticleAnalysis | Drones and the US-Iran Shadow War
A look at the likely next theater in an unceasing conflict. [ overview ] The Islamic Republic of Iran learned the importance of unmanned aerial vehicle, or drone, technology in its defense against...
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2013 | Tehran Bureau
Starting in January, Tehran Bureau will no longer appear at this address. Please bookmark TehranBureau.com. If you'd like to see our reporting on Iran continue at this critical juncture --...
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Dispatch | Yalda: The Evolution of an Iranian Tradition
A winter festival that predates the Prophet becomes an occasion to reassert national identity. [ dispatch ] The sun has set on Tehran. It is Yalda now. It is Thursday, December 20, the last day of the...
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Comment | The Complex Mechanics of Removing US Sanctions on Iran
Even a nuclear pact may not be enough to make it happen. Navid Hassibi is a doctoral student at the University of Antwerp, focusing his research on the nuclear weapons policy of the United States under...
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2013 | A Rough Year for Iran
Alireza Nader is a senior policy analyst at the RAND Corporation and a lecturer on Iranian politics at the George Washington University. [ comment ] For Iran, 2013 could be one of the most challenging...
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