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Iranian Police, Basij Clash With Pro-Reform Protesters At Tehran University

AP | By ALI AKBAR DAREINI | Posted 12.07.2009 | World


(AP) TEHRAN, Iran - Security forces and militiamen clashed with thousands of protesters shouting "death to the dictator" outside Tehran University on ...

Iran Limits Internet Access Ahead Of Protests

AP | ALI AKBAR DAREINI | Posted 12.07.2009 | World


TEHRAN, Iran — Government opponents shouted "Allahu Akbar" and "Death to the Dictator" from Tehran's rooftops in the pouring rain on the eve of ...

Iran Begins War Games To Protect Nuclear Facilities

AP | NASSER KARIMI | Posted 11.22.2009 | World


TEHRAN, Iran — Iran on Sunday began large-scale air defense war games aimed at protecting its nuclear facilities from attack, state TV reported,...

Ramin Pourandarjani's Death Raises Suspicions

AP | SCHEHEREZADE FARAMARZI | Posted 11.18.2009 | World


BEIRUT — An Iranian doctor who went public with reports of tortured protesters he treated at Tehran's most feared detention facility dies, amid ...

Is a Deal with Iran Finally Taking Shape?

Richard W. Parker | Posted 11.18.2009 | World


Richard W. Parker

Will Iran accept the kind of deal ElBaradai is said to be seeking -- a deal that gives Iran limited enrichment in exchange for a form of nationwide surveillance?

UN: Once-Secret Iran Nuclear Facility To Start In 2011

AP | GEORGE JAHN | Posted 11.17.2009 | World


VIENNA — Iranian construction of a previously secret uranium enrichment site is at an advanced stage, with high-tech equipment already in place ...

"Qum" Buy Ya

Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 11.13.2009 | World


Amb. Marc Ginsberg

While the technical revelations regarding the Qum nuclear enrichment facility filter out as the IAEA prepares its final report to the U.N., the U.S. is at a crossroads regarding Iran's nuclear program.

Iranian Memoir By Freed Prisoner Haleh Esfandiari

The New York Review of Books | Claire Messud | Posted 11.20.2009 | Books


In Emin Prison Claire Messud The New York Review of Books "My Prison, My Home: One Woman's Story of Captivity in Iran" by Haleh Esfandiari. Ecco, ...

3 Journalists Freed By Iran

AP | Posted 11.07.2009 | World


TEHRAN, Iran — Iranian authorities have released three journalists who were among more than 100 people arrested during pro-government and opposi...

Mahmoud Vahidnia, Student, Stuns Iran By Criticizing Supreme Leader

AP | SCHEHEREZADE FARAMARZI | Posted 11.05.2009 | World


BEIRUT — An unassuming college math student has become an unlikely hero to many in Iran for daring to criticize the country's most powerful man ...

Iran Protests: Is Obama Staying on Ahmadinejad's Good Side?

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 11.06.2009 | World


Shirin Sadeghi

The Iranians are still coming. In droves. Despite the intermittent media coverage in the United States, Iranians have not yet stopped protesting the...

Remembering The Iran Hostage Crisis: 444 Days In The Dark

gq.com | Posted 11.03.2009 | World


They were geeks with guns - hundreds of Muslim medical and engineering students who stormed the U.S. embassy in the heart of Tehran on November 4, 197...

Tehran: Embassy Occupation Anniversary May See Fresh Protests

TIME | Robin Wright | Posted 11.02.2009 | World


A new showdown looms in Iran this week, as the regime and its intrepid opposition gear up for what may be their biggest street confrontation since the...

UN Nuclear Inspectors In Iran To Visit Site

AP | ALI AKBAR DAREINI | Posted 10.26.2009 | World


TEHRAN, Iran — U.N. inspectors entered a once-secret uranium enrichment facility with bunker-like construction and heavy military protection tha...

Iran Trying to Install Microsoft Windows 7

Andy Borowitz | Posted 10.24.2009 | Comedy


Andy Borowitz

Spy-satellite photos reveal a shipment of Windows 7 software, as well as a dozen IT professionals from Redmond, Washington, arriving early Saturday morning in Tehran.

New On The NYR Blog

The New York Review of Books | Posted 11.20.2009 | Books


The New York Review blog has two new posts up today, from Haleh Esfandiari, who writes about her tenure in Evin Prison in Tehran, and Ahmed Rashid, wh...

Maziar Bahari Tells Of Ordeal In Tehran Prison

newsweek.com | Posted 10.22.2009 | World


For day after day, month after month, following his imprisonment in Iran on June 21, documentary filmmaker and NEWSWEEK correspondent Maziar Bahari di...

Obama in the Thicket of "Afghaniranistan"

William Bradley | Posted 10.21.2009 | World


William Bradley

Obama is in a multi-faceted complex of geopolitical crises. He is actively using military force in two of the countries, and has threatened, at the least, tough sanctions in the third.

Iran Suicide Bombing Could Be Bad For Obama

TIME | Andrew Lee Butters | Posted 10.19.2009 | Home


Sunday's suicide terrorism attack that killed at least five commanders of Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps could have an impact far beyond the Islami...

MAZIAR BAHARI RELEASED: Iran Frees Newsweek Reporter On Bail

AP | ALI AKBAR DAREINI | Posted 10.17.2009 | World


TEHRAN, Iran — Iran released a foreign Newsweek reporter on bail Saturday almost four months after he was arrested following the country's dispu...

A Soft Power Opportunity for Iran

Kevin Sullivan | Posted 10.14.2009 | World


Kevin Sullivan

In the neighboring country of Yemen, a very real opportunity to make good on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's promise of friendship is rapidly emerging for Iran.

Fatally Flawed UN Goldstone Report Could Come Back to Bite America For Fighting Terrorists

Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics


Rabbi Abraham Cooper

Goldstone's report, in effect, equates Israel with Nazis and other tyrants of history by accusing the Jewish State of deliberately targeting civilians.

Dear President Lula, Again

David Harris | Posted 10.12.2009 | World


David Harris

Why would Brazil, today a towering bastion of democratic values, seek closer ties with Iran, its polar opposite?

Iran Sentences 3 To Death In Post-Election Mass Opposition Trial

AP | ALI AKBAR DAREINI | Posted 10.10.2009 | World


TEHRAN, Iran — Three defendants in Iran's mass trial of opposition figures accused of fueling the country's postelection unrest have been senten...

True Confessions of a Gourmand

Charlotte Safavi | Posted 10.08.2009 | Style


Charlotte Safavi

Gourmet is the latest glossy to fall victim to declines in readership and ad revenue. I can't explain this. I can only explain why Gourmet's circulation stood at 977,000 and not 977,001.