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Profiles | Journalist & Blogger: Two Who Fight for Iranians' Human Rights
The lives, careers, and prison sentences of Mohammad Seddigh Kaboudvand and Hossein Ronaghi Maleki. [ comment ] In the struggle for the fundamental rights of the Iranian people and the establishment of...
View ArticleDispatch | An Instrument Called 'Melody': The Street Musicians of Tehran
'Street music beautifies the city space,' says one performer, but not everyone agrees. [ dispatch ] Prior to the 1979 Revolution that installed the Islamic Republic, Iranian cafés and cabarets...
View ArticleA Tale of Two Oil Shocks | Part 1: 1973-76
When the Shah persuaded OPEC to double the price of oil, with global consequences. Andrew Scott Cooper is the author of The Oil Kings: How the U.S., Iran and Saudi Arabia Changed the Balance of Power...
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News | Ahmadinejad: I'll Exit Politics at Term's End; US Senators Balk at Talks
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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Profiles | These Three Women: Ashton, Schmid, Sherman and the Nuclear Talks
The trio that holds the key to negotiations with Iran. [ comment ] The latest round of negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 group -- the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council...
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Dispatch | Nuclear Talks a Pocketbook Issue for Iranians
[ dispatch ] Debates over Iran's nuclear program have generally consumed politicians, bazaar merchants and the press in Iran. But now ordinary Iranians are increasingly engaged in these issues. The...
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News | Iran: Talks 'Test for the West'; West: No Explicit Right to Enrichment
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News | Iran Demands Relief from Sanctions; West: 'Stop, Shut, Ship'
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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Iran Standard Time | Warning: Neighborhood Watch Program in Force
Safety and security along a middle-class Tehran alley. [ dispatch ] Driving home on a Thursday afternoon around four o'clock earlier this month, I saw a group of people gathering around one of the...
View ArticleVideo | Clinton: Regime Change For Iranians to Decide
[ media ] On June 20, the State Department hosted a conversation on U.S. foreign policy between Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and former Secretary of State James Baker. Following are...
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Media Watch | Report: Iran Oil Exports Plummet; Images from an Execution
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Opinion | Understanding Iranian Defiance
A psyche that doesn't bow to bullying. Parvin Shirzad is a pen name for a journalist who travels frequently to Iran. She was recently based in Tehran for a year. [ opinion ] There is a fundamental...
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Comment | Iran's Nuclear Calculus
Mutual perceptions of weakness yield little progress. Ali Vaez is the International Crisis Group's senior Iran analyst. Before joining ICG, he headed the Iran project at the Federation of American...
View ArticleOpinion | Apple's 'Iran Policy' Shows Why We Can't Shy Away from Politics
U.S.-Iranian relations affect the entire community. Nobar Elmi is the director of community outreach and programming at the National Iranian American Council (NIAC). She previously served as a...
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Analysis | What to Make of Moscow?
Farideh Farhi is an independent scholar and affiliate graduate faculty at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa. [ analysis ] Analyses of the Moscow talk results have been quite varied. For some, the...
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Media Watch | An Insider's View: Iran Ready to Do Business with the West
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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Opinion | New Parliament Set for Faceoff with Ahmadinejad
But could president forge an alliance with Majles Speaker Larijani on nuclear issue? Tina Amini is a pen name for an analyst who specializes in Iranian elections. She divides her time between the...
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Comment | West's Demands, Iran's Unrealistic Goals Sink Nuclear Talks
An analysis of the failure in Moscow, and the framework for a solution. Muhammad Sahimi, a professor at the University of Southern California, is a columnist for Tehran Bureau and contributes regularly...
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News | Iran Agency's Morsi 'Interview' Denied; Death Sentences for Drinking
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News | US Names Iran Intel Officer; 100,000 MKO Followers Rally Near Paris
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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