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News | EU Sets Severe New Sanctions; Iran Officially Rejects UN Rights Report
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 | Reformist Cleric Ahmad Ghabel in Coma, Reported Brain Dead
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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The Arts | Sanctions' Impact on Cultural Heritage: Iran and the Case of Cuba
Doing damage with a broad brush. Gerardo Contino is a lawyer specializing in intellectual property. He has worked in the arts for over a decade in Cuba and the United States.[ comment ] Since the...
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Business | Iran's Economy: A Ball Rolling Downhill
Businesses endangered by frozen foreign-exchange market, new government rules. [ dispatch ] After the crisis in Iran's currency market two weeks ago and the accompanying street protests, there was a...
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Analysis | Sanctions Bite, Iran Scrambles
Islamic Republic could be moving toward Soviet-style command and control economic management. Q&A with Gary Clyde Hufbauer, the Reginald Jones Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for...
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News | Nasrin Sotoudeh: Hunger Strike, Finalist for Rights Prize with Jafar...
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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Dispatch | Tehran Talks: The US Election as Seen by Iranians
Deep interest and a wide range of opinion about American politics on the Iranian street. [ dispatch ] If there were global statistics regarding which nations have been paying the most attention to the...
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Books | An Iranian Metamorphosis
[ spotlight ] Warscapes, an online magazine, features a conversation with Iranian cartoonist Mana Neyestani, excerpted below: It is unclear whether Neyestani was always painfully shy and anti-social,...
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Comment | A Message to Tehran, Not Tel Aviv
[ comment ] As the Iranian presidential election draws closer and the growing severity of Western sanctions makes life increasingly difficult for ordinary Iranians, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard...
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79/11, Tehran or Tunis | Part 2: The Long Shadow of Iran's Executions
Part 1: The Fork in the Revolutionary Road Out of repression and terror, a system emerges. Dr. Iraj Omidvar teaches English at Southern Polytechnic State University, Marietta, Georgia. Any opinions...
View ArticleVideo | Beautiful Iran
[ video ] H/T to Max Fisher, foreign policy blogger at the Washington Post, for featuring this charming video in his post today. Shot by Chicago filmmaker Cyrus Dowlatshahi, "it shows a side of Iran...
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Media Watch | A Breakthrough toward Bilateral US-Iran Nuclear 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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Q&A | 'I've Only Been To The Cinema Once'
He may defer to the Supreme Leader on all matters of taste, except maybe Bollywood... [ interview ] You would think that a member of the Iranian parliament's cultural commission would have an interest...
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Media Watch | The Iran Plank: Previewing Monday Night's Foreign Policy Debate
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Music | An End to Tehran's Symphony Orchestra?
[ news ] Financial problems may force the Tehran Symphony Orchestra to disband, according to Iran's semi-official news agency. Quoting an anonymous musician, Mehr reports that member contracts, which...
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Analysis | Another Presidential Election
What Ayatollah Khamenei, and the reformists, may be looking for. Gareth Smyth, a frequent Tehran Bureau contributor, has covered Middle Eastern politics since 1992, and was Tehran bureau chief of the...
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News | As EU Delegates Plan Iran Visit, Group Raises Heat on Human Rights
United for Iran issues report on global community's "unsatisfactory, even detrimental" record on Iranians' rights. [ human rights ] A European Union delegation is heading to Iran this week to meet with...
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Dispatch | Iranians Appear to Favor US Nuclear Talks, But Doubt They'll Happen
A case is made that improved relations with the U.S. could benefit the opposition Green Movement. [ dispatch ] According to a story that appeared in the New York Times this past weekend, unnamed...
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Q&A | United for Iran's Dokhi Fassihian on Human Rights & What the World Can Do
"The key for real change is for there to be sustained high-level pressure." [ interview ] Dokhi Fassihian is director of programs and advocacy at United for Iran, which campaigns for Iranian democracy,...
View ArticleMedia Watch | Another Hit Job on Ahmadinejad
[ media ] Earlier this week, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's first vice president, Mohammad Reza Rahimi, was asked whether the government had made any progress in apprehending those in Iran whom the...
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