News | Deaths and Divisions in the Revolutionary Guards
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View ArticleNews | 'Head Off This Brakeless Train': Haj Seyyed Javadi's Letter to Khamenei
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View ArticleComment | Will Israel Really Attack Iran?
The real answer is no, they will not. But you would never figure that out by reading the New York Times. [ analysis ] The sensationalist article in the Sunday New York Times Magazine (January 29) adds...
View ArticleDispatch | At Low Point, Leader's Popularity Ebbs
"Agha" subject of Iranians' humor and scorn. [ news analysis ] Despite appearing to be solidly in control of the Islamic Republic, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is now faced with the acerbic...
View ArticleNews | US Intelligence Chief: Iran Growing Threat to America
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View ArticleComment | Iran Then and 33 Years After the Revoltion
[ Q&A ] w/ Karim Sadjadpour, an associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the author of "Reading Khamenei: The Worldview of Iran's Most Powerful Leader." How has Iranian...
View ArticleNews | 'The People Themselves': Group Urges Silent Protests on Feb 14
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View ArticleSpotlight | Before the Revolution
[ video ] In this short ski clip, you get not only a glimpse of Iran shortly before the revolution, but what looks like the revolutionaries themselves, in Azadi Square, then called Shahyad. The look...
View ArticleNews | Israeli Military Head: Must 'Continue to Disrupt' Iran Nuke Program
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View ArticleComment | No Laughing Matter
Iran's revolutionary images inspire unintended questions. [ comment ] Last year while I was in Iran, I spent weeks trying to find someone to digitize my family's old photographs. I am still obsessed...
View ArticleNews | Ahmadinejad Camp Attacks Khamenei, Revolutionary Guards
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View ArticleOpinion | Iranophobia and the Hysteria over Tehran's Nuclear Program
Western media and political distortions wind up serving the interests of the Islamic Republic's dictatorial regime in brief The promotion of "Iranophobia," based on the notion that the Islamic Republic...
View ArticleNews | Khamenei Lashes Out at Israel, the West, and Domestic Opponents
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...
View ArticleNews | Divisions in Leader's Camp Deepen as Elections Loom
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View ArticleDispatch | Mounting Economic Challenges Force New Monetary Moves
"The economy is finished," says one south Tehrani. [ business ] To stabilize the reeling Iranian economy, the government is creating parallel markets, promoting new market instruments, and forcing...
View ArticleBriefs | Human Rights in the Balance: Heshmatollah Tabarzadi v. IRI
Iranian regime mocks international rights norms, legal processes. [ comment ] After a semester spent studying the intricacies of international human rights law and institutions, cynical law students...
View ArticleNews | Mousavi's Daughters Threatened; Israel's Role in Assassinations
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...
View ArticleNews | Calls for Silent Protests Tuesday Put Regime on High Alert
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View ArticleLive Blog | Iran Protests Called For ... But Will They Happen?
Iran Standard Time (IRST), GMT+3:30 6:30 a.m. Dawn is breaking in Tehran. The sun will crest the horizon in about 20 minutes. For background on the calls that have been made for silent anti-repression...
View ArticleNews | Iran's Nuclear Program Advances on Three Fronts
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