Jame'eye Baaz | The Flexibility of Khamenei's So-Called 'Nuclear Fatwa'
Some things are certain and lasting...and then there are Supreme Leaders' "fatwas." Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi is a doctoral student in modern Middle East studies at Queens College, University of...
View ArticleBriefs | Court Mandates U.S. Decision on MEK
[ in focus ] On June 1, a U.S. District Appeals Court ruled that the Obama administration must finally decide within four months whether or not to remove the Mujahedeen-e Khalq (MEK) from the State...
View ArticleOpinion | Sounding the Wrong School Alarm in Iran
The real issue isn't access, it's the questionable benefits of formal schooling for the average Iranian child. [ education ] In an item posted on his blog Monday, Prof. Djavad Salehi-Isfahani rebuts...
View ArticleNews | Iran Moves to Bolster Iraq's Beleaguered Premier Maliki
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...
View ArticleSlideshow | Nurieh Mozaffari's 'Unforgettable' Women of Iran
They stone the licentious, ignorant that the city teems with intellectual whores; knowing not that perverse minds devastate more greatly than perverse flesh. --Forough Farrokhzad [ spotlight ] "As an...
View ArticleEconomy | Nuclear 'Crisis,' Goldsmiths' War
How the political and economic elites benefit from a trumped-up conflict. [ view from the ground ] There are few quicker ways of making money than knowing what the negotiators for Iran's nuclear...
View ArticleIran Standard Time | Friday Kind of Crimes
Morality plays under Tehran's famous (dying) sycamore trees. [ vignette ] I like Friday mornings in Tehran. The streets are quiet. The sky, finally free from the weekday pollution, tends toward blue....
View ArticleQ&A | Artist or 'Apostate': Talking with Musician Shahin Najafi
"Being an artist in Iran is like running barefoot on sharp nails." [ interview ] After two grand ayatollahs declared him an apostate for a song that supposedly insults a Shia Imam, there is now a...
View ArticleComment | Khamenei Consolidates Control amid Other Power Shifts
Iran's Supreme Leader is back firmly in control. Mehrzad Boroujerdi is a professor of political science at Syracuse University. He has compiled a database with detailed information on nearly 2,000...
View ArticleNews | India Slashes Iran Oil Buy; New UAE Pipeline to Skirt Strait of Hormuz
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...
View ArticleRegion | Hezbollah: Explaining the Past and Promising the Future
Does Hassan Nasrallah really want a "strong state" in Lebanon? Gareth Smyth, a frequent Tehran Bureau contributor, started reporting from Lebanon in 1996. He was formerly based in Tehran as bureau...
View ArticleNews | Iran-IAEA Negotiations Fail, Moscow Talks in Doubt
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...
View ArticleAudio | Kadri on Sharia Law, Its History, and Its Place in the Modern World
"Human-rights-compatible interpretations of the sharia are not only possible, but desirable." [ books ] Sharia law has been at the forefront of considerable controversy in the West of late -- U.S....
View ArticlePhoto Essay | Paris: Iran's Political Hub
Seeking a New Home Refugees whose asylum applications have been accepted start lining up outside the Préfecture de Police in the 19th arrondissement at three in the morning. They repeat the process...
View ArticleComment | Tehran's Views on U.S. Politics and Nuclear Talks
Iran will probably stall on nuclear talks until after the U.S. Presidential election in November. Mehdi Khaliji, a senior fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, studied Shia theology...
View ArticleBehind the Curtain | Iranian Graphic Designer Wins Prestigious Award
"Hamzad (Twin)," by Mehdi Mahdian: solo and in exhibition. Arash Karami is a frequent Tehran Bureau contributor. Negar Mortazavi is an Iranian journalist based in Washington, D.C. [ blog ] Iranian...
View ArticleAnalysis | America's Catch-22: The Iran Question in Afghanistan
Beijing and Moscow may increasingly undercut America's stance on Iran. Christina Lin is a visiting fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International...
View ArticleNews Flash | U.S. Waivers Seven Countries for Reducing Iran Oil
On June 11, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton issued the following statement on "Significant Reductions of Iranian Crude Oil Purchases": Today I have made the determination that seven economies --...
View ArticleSports | The Lions of Persia
Politics on the pitch. [ comment ] FIFA administers six continental football confederations. One of them, the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), in turn, directs each Asian football federation, such...
View ArticleNews | Report: Iran Plans Nuclear Sub; First VP Said to Have Embezzled $1.5M
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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