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News | Official Sources Continue to Downplay Earthquake Devastation
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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Media Watch | Iranian-Saudi Rivalry Simmers In Spite of Smiles
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 | 90 Political Prisoners To Be Freed; Ex-Ministers: Dump Ahmadinejad
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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Business | The Drama of Iran's Erratic Rial
'Short-term solutions to big problems.' [ Q&A] w/ Kevan Harris, a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University. He recently received his Ph.D. in sociology from Johns Hopkins University...
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Sports | Carving Snow, Breaking the Ice: 'Boarders without Borders'
Forthcoming documentary to track U.S. snowboarders on Iranian slopes. [ film ] In the 30 years since the fall of the Shah, we have seen many attempts at "cultural diplomacy" between the United States...
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Comment | Romney's Foreign Policy Team and Iran
"I don't know who all of his [Mitt Romney's] advisers are, but I've seen some of the names and some of them are quite far to the right. And sometimes they might be in a position to make judgments or...
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Region | The Specter of Syria's Alleged Chemical Weapons
Raising the stakes in an increasingly internationalized and deadly conflict. Paul Mutter is a graduate student at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at NYU and a fellow at Truthout, an...
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Interview | Esfandiari on Iran's Decision to Curtail Female Education
[ Q&A ] w/ Haleh Esfandiari, director of the Middle East Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and the author of "Reconstructed Lives: Women and Iran's Islamic...
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Dispatch | An Uncovered Earthquake
When compassionate action is tantamount to political protest. [ news analysis ] What does the Iranian government's delay in covering the August 11 earthquakes in East Azerbaijan indicate to the Iranian...
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News | Grand Ayatollah Sanei: Avoid Acting as 'Warmongers' against Israel
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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Media Watch | Is Israel Truly 'Determined to Attack Iran' Before US Election?
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 | Mehr News Agency: '16,000 Memorials' for Earthquake Victims
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Opinion | Tehran Summit of Nonaligned States an Opportunity for Potent Protest
Visiting leaders must be pressed to address the dire situation of the Iranian people, activists say. Muhammad Sahimi, a professor at the University of Southern California, is a columnist for Tehran...
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News | Quake Volunteers Arrested; Mir Hossein Mousavi Home from Hospital
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Comment | Iran Wins Tug-of-War with United States
Robin Wright, who has visited Iran regularly since 1973, is a joint fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. [ comment ] Iran has jockeyed to...
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Q&A | Jahanshah Javid: From Iranian.com to Iroon.com
"The vast majority of the population inside and outside Iran are becoming more and more frustrated. And what we see online is a reflection of that." [ interview ] After 17 years running Iranian.com,...
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News | Iran's Leaders Challenged on Human Rights, Syria at NAM Summit
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Dispatch | A Cheating State of Mind
The idea of infidelity in a changing society. [ society ] I'm sitting by a swimming pool chatting with a group of women: A., a teenager; M., her mum; and four others in their late 30s and early 40s --...
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Transcript | UN Secretary-General: Free 'Opposition Leaders, Rights Defenders'
[ transcript ] On Thursday, in the middle of a three-day trip to Iran to attend the summit of the Non-Aligned Movement, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon spoke to a gathering of faculty and...
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Comment | IAEA Iran Report: Little New except Reduced Bomb-Making Capacity
Half of 19.75 percent enriched uranium stockpile consumed; no rise in production rate. Muhammad Sahimi, a professor at the University of Southern California, is a columnist for Tehran Bureau and...
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