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Briefing | Obama: Will 'Make a Push for Dialogue' with Iran on Nuclear Program
Says negotiations won't be "constrained by diplomatic niceties or protocols," but talks not imminent. [ transcript ] In President Barack Obama's Wednesday afternoon press conference, his first in eight...
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News | UN Officials Urge Probe of Blogger Sattar Beheshti's Death in Prison
"There should be zero tolerance for torture." [ in focus ] The director-general of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and a group of four U.N. special human...
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Video | '10 Centimeters Too High': A Clerical Take on Sex Ed
"Do you want your man to say sweet things to you?" [ close-up ] Family planning is out in the Islamic Republic of Iran, and procreation is officially in. Perhaps this is why the cleric in the video...
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News | Report: Coroner Asserts Beheshti 'Died from Natural Causes'
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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Briefing | Satellite Wars: Why Iran Keeps Jamming
From conspiracy theory to political reality, the IRI has multiple motivations to sever signals from the world outside. [ briefing ] All television broadcasting in Iran is officially under state...
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Arts | Poetry in Translation: History and Romance in the Verse of H. E. Sayeh
A seasoned traveler on the road to love's door. [ poetry ] A poem in translation is a linguistic-cultural unit uprooted from its land of origin and replanted in unaccustomed terrain. The most drastic...
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Profile | Maryam's Temporary Matrimonies: A Story of Sigheh
Marital bonds designed to melt into air. [ dispatch ] Along the western edge of Tehran, skyscrapers and slums stand side by side. Here, in the district of Punak, Maryam lives with her younger sister,...
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Dispatch | Gaza and the Israeli-Hamas Conflict as Seen from Iran
"It is not possible to drive away Israelis from there and not possible to tell Palestinians that they can't have a homeland." [ dispatch ] The recent fighting between Israel and Hamas in Gaza has been...
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Society | A King Alone
[ Bīstoon ] The painting is titled The Hall of Mirrors. It was painted in Iran in 1896. The man sitting on the chair, in the lower third of the frame, is King Naser al-Din, who ruled Iran for nearly...
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Q&A | Iran's Post-U.S. Influence in Iraq
Jim Jeffrey was U.S. Ambassador to Iraq from 2010-2012. He was also ambassador to Turkey, and deputy national security advisor under the George W. Bush administration. He is now a visiting fellow at...
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Death of a Blogger | Call for Top E-Cop to Resign; Police Admit 'Negligence'
[ in focus ] The legislator heading the investigation by the Majles's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission into the prison death of blogger Sattar Beheshti has called for the resignation of...
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Analysis | Iran's Nuclear Program: A Shift in the Winds?
Shaul Bakhash is the Clarence Robinson Professor of History at George Mason University. [ comment ] In the wake of President Obama's re-election, Iran has been signaling its readiness for direct talks...
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Elections | Senior Ayatollah: No Free Vote in Sight, Iran Ruled with 'Lies'
"They want to rob us of everything in order to be able to participate in the election." [ media watch ] Ayatollah Seyyed Mohammad Mousavi Khoeiniha, one of Iran's most prominent leftist clerics, has...
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Dispatch | Government in a Fog as Recession Looms ... or Has It Arrived?
"The recession is here! Are they kidding?" [ business analysis ] On Monday, November 26, the Iranian Customs Administration announced that it would not permit the release of cargo with imported goods...
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News | US Sets March Deadline for Nuke Cooperation; Iran Girds for Assad's Fall
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 | Sotoudeh in Critical Condition; 'Maturity' Test for Women's Passports?
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Dispatch | A Faith of Their Own: Islam and Iranian Youth
"To claim that we should live exactly the way it was so many years ago is inconceivable." After the victory of the Iranian Revolution in 1979, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini oversaw the creation of a new...
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In Focus | Nasrin Sotoudeh Ends Hunger Strike after Daughter's Travel Ban Lifted
Human rights champion halts perilous seven-week protest after primary demand is met. [ in focus ] Jailed human rights lawyer and journalist Nasrin Sotoudeh ended a hunger strike of 49 days after...
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Debate | A Democratic and Unified Opposition Is a Strategic Imperative
'A frank dialogue to address contentious issues and break longstanding taboos.' Loghman H. Ahmedi is the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan's head of foreign relations. All opinions are his own. [...
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Media Watch | Conservative Bloggers in Iran: Beheshti and Citing Ahmadinejad
Despite the impression often given by the Western media, conservative opinion in Iran is far from monolithic. There is, in fact, an immense diversity of opinion among pro-government Iranians. This is...
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