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Analysis | Newfound Status for Iran's Regular Armed Forces
Supreme Leader puts them on near-equal footing with Revolutionary Guards in apparent bid to build unity, loyalty. [ analysis ] To fully appreciate the political standing of Iran's regular armed forces,...
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Dispatch | The Water Pipe Wars
Confusing rules, conflicting agendas. Sometimes a pipe is not just a pipe. [ dispatch ] "Who cares about the election? Will there even be one? I doubt that," the rough, edgy voice of a middle-aged man...
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News | Oil Prices Heat Up as Sanctions Strike Iran Energy, Bank Sectors
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News | Details Emerge on 'Iran' Daily Raid; IRI Bigs Slam Oil Sanctions
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Opinion | Humanitarian Intervention or Naked Military Aggression?
In the view of this columnist, there is no doubt that the Tehran regime has lost all legitimacy in the eyes of the vast majority of the Iranian people. There is no question that the ruling elite has...
View ArticleBlog | Manoto TV
[ spotlight ] Manoto ('Me & You'), part of the London-based Marjan TV network, is a Persian-language variety entertainment channel launched in October 2010 and targeted primarily at young adults...
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Dispatch | Iran and Qaddafi: Questions over the 'Chemical Warfare' Connection
Claims that IRI sold Libyan dictator mustard-gas shells require more scrutiny. [ news analysis ] On November 20, iwatchnews.org, the online publication of the Center for Public Integrity, carried a...
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Opinion | Breaking the Stalemate
Editor's note: Earlier this month, a group of Iranian activists in the diaspora issued a statement calling on the Islamic Republic to "temporarily and conditionally suspend its uranium enrichment" and...
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Protesters Storm UK Embassy in Tehran
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Region | Hidden Lives: Afghan Girls in Germany
A culture clash experienced in everyday battles and lasting repercussions. [ personal history ] When I was growing up as a teenager in Hamburg's Afghan diaspora, my father received a phone call out of...
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Opinion | Islamist Fictions, Leftist Fashions, and the Embassy Invasion
A restaging full of sound and fury, signifying only worn-out ideological posturing. [ opinion ] Many like me were struck by an image from the pro-regime attack on the British Embassy yesterday. It was...
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Dispatch | The Man to Watch in Iran?
Ali Akbar Salehi: Iran's foreign minister...and future president? [ profiles ] After the 1979 Iranian Revolution, the Islamic Republic's new leaders confronted the dilemma of what to do with the...
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News | Last Iran Diplomats Depart UK; Ambassador Describes Invasion
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Q&A | Poet, Activist Remembers Life in Iran Pre-Revolution
"At that time, nobody paid attention to what girls did when they got together." [ lifestyle ] Saghi Ghahraman is an Iranian lesbian poet and gay rights activist who lives in Toronto. Born in 1957 in...
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Media Watch | The Mysterious Blast in Isfahan
Air Force maneuvers or explosion? Accident or sabotage? Was uranium conversion facility the target? And was it struck? [ media watch ] One week ago, around 2:40 p.m. local time Monday, November 28, the...
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Preview | Majles Elections 2012
[ Q&A ] w/ Yasmin Alem, an independent Iran analyst, and the author of Duality by Design: The Iranian Electoral System, published by the International Foundation of Electoral Systems. What is...
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Spotlight | 'One Arrives and One Departs': The Poetry of Bijan Jalali
Elegance in concision, eloquence in simplicity. [ spotlight ] Bijan Jalali was born in 1928 in Tehran, where he received his elementary and secondary education. For several years he studied physics at...
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Background | Fierce Debate over Diaspora Activists' Statement
Are signatories 'Fifth Columnists' or representatives of the new face of Iranian patriotism? [ background ] Last month, a group of 185 Iranians in the diaspora released a statement that called on the...
View ArticleMedia Watch | IRGC Displays Downed American Drone
[ media watch ] On Sunday, Iran said that it had shot down a U.S. stealth drone near the country's eastern border. American officials disputed the story. "[T]here is absolutely no indication up to...
View ArticleVideo | Missing Ex-FBI Agent: 'Help Me'
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