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News | Obama Administration, Romney Court Israel on Iran Showdown
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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News | Health Group: Sanctions Put Tens of Thousands of Iranian Children at Risk
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News | 4 Death Sentences in $2.6B Bank Fraud; Case Opened on Larijani Brother
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The IRGC Strategic Brain Trust | Part 1: Ghasem Soleimani and Ahmad Vahidi
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' two paramount strategists. Muhammad Sahimi, a professor at the University of Southern California, is a columnist for Tehran Bureau and contributes regularly to...
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Media Watch | Israeli Paper Reports Major Military Opposition to Iran Strike
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News | Professor Nima Arkani-Hamed Wins Prestigious Physics Prize
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Dispatch | A Surprising Rehabilitation: The Shah in the Eyes of Young Iranians
Many perceive a loss of "respect" in society since the monarchy's fall. [ dispatch ] More than three decades after Mohammad Reza Shah Phalavi's death and despite relentless official demonization of the...
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The State Blog | Nukes and Pipelines
The State is a weekly column about Iranian security and diplomatic issues. Alex Vatanka is a scholar at the Middle East Institute in Washington, D.C. Previously he was the managing editor of Jane's...
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Behind the Curtain | Iranian Social Media Users Challenge Boxer's...
Images from the bout between Ali Mazaheri (in blue) and José Larduet Gómez (in red). Arash Karami is a frequent Tehran Bureau contributor. Negar Mortazavi is an Iranian journalist based in Washington,...
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Dispatch | The Open Secrets of Ramadan
"I don't like to go outside anymore. It's not my country." [ essay ] I arrived in Iran during Ramadan, when it falls on the hottest month of the year. Today the temperature in the city has already...
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News | Barak: Iran Has No Nuclear Arms Program; Panetta Angry with Israel
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Media Watch | Iranians Abducted in Syria Accused of Revolutionary Guard Ties
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Media Watch | 'Terror Club': Iranian TV's Prime-Time Assassination 'Confessions'
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View ArticleCinema | 'Zendegi-ye Khosoosi': The 'Private Life' of an Iranian Reformist
A tale of a fatal attraction bears a host of ideological implications. Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi is a doctoral student in modern Middle East studies at Queens College, University of Oxford.[ society...
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Comment | Iran Bullies Its Own Scholars into Avoiding Istanbul Conference
State media claims academic assembly a plot by "Baha'is and royalists." Dr. Eden Naby is the author of The Assyrian Experience (with Michael E. Hopper) and Afghanistan: Mullah, Marx, and Mujahid (with...
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News | Tajzadeh to Foreign Sec'y Salehi: Tell Ayatollah Khamenei the Reality
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The IRGC Strategic Brain Trust | Part 2: Ahmadian, Hejazi, and Jafari
Muhammad Sahimi, a professor at the University of Southern California, is a columnist for Tehran Bureau and contributes regularly to other Internet and print media. Part 1: Ghasem Soleimani and Ahmad...
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News | Death Toll at 250, Over 2,000 Injured in East Azerbaijan Earthquakes
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Behind the Curtain | Social Media Fills In for Muted State Media after...
Many residents of Ahar spent Saturday night outside in tents (Fars News Agency). A visual appeal for aid (Stands with Fist). Arash Karami, a frequent Tehran Bureau contributor, tweets as @thekarami....
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Analysis | Israeli Media Abuzz over Looming 'Iran Decision'
A game of leaks with potentially historic consequences. Paul Mutter is a graduate student at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at NYU and a fellow at Truthout, an independent online magazine. [...
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