Iran Confiscates Jackson Pollock Painting ... From Itself
It’s not your average art heist: One of Iran’s most valuable pieces of art, a painting by U.S. artist Jackson Pollock worth $250 million, has been...
It’s not your average art heist: One of Iran’s most valuable pieces of art, a painting by U.S. artist Jackson Pollock worth $250 million, has been...
Reuters | Posted 05.25.2012
By Andrew Quinn and Justyna Pawlak BAGHDAD, May 24 (Reuters) - Iran accused world powers on Thursday of creating "a difficult atmosphe...
Reuters | Posted 05.24.2012
DUBAI, May 23 (Reuters) - Iran has proposed a "new and comprehensive" package of proposals to six world powers during talks on Wednesday in Baghdad ...
Dora Levy Mossanen | Posted 05.23.2012
Was theirs an arranged marriage? It certainly was. Were they different in every imaginable way? You bet. Yet they managed to build a relationship based on love and trust. I wonder whether that was possible only because divorce was not an option at the time.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty | Golnaz Esfandiari | Posted 05.21.2012
On May 17, the International Day Against Homophobia, a small group of Iranians publicly displayed support for gay rights despite the Islamic republic'...
Huffington Post | Lucas Kavner | Posted 05.02.2012
If you saw the members of Iranian indie rock band, The Yellow Dogs, on the streets of Brooklyn, you wouldn't bat an eyelash. They could easily pass fo...
Michael Brenner | Posted 04.19.2012
North Korea's military capabilities and intentions get scant attention in the American media, among politicians, and in Congress, in contrast to the all-consuming obsession with Iran. Why?
Jamal Abdi | Posted 04.18.2012
If Iran and the U.S. are unable to build positive sum political space and the mutual spin becomes a vicious cycle, the negotiations could easily spin into failure.
AP | ALI AKBAR DAREINI and BRIAN MURPHY | Posted 04.16.2012
TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran calls it the "soft war" with the West: Battles to control, defend and monitor the Internet and other high-level telecommunication...
Daniel J. Graeber | Posted 05.22.2012
With Kuwait allied with the United States and working more closely with Iran's long-time rivals in Riyadh, it's unlikely there will be any brotherly love in the Persian Gulf anytime soon.
ARTINFO | Posted 05.12.2012
Street art is a growing phenomenon in cities around the world, but it still comes as a surprise to see images of Icy and Sot's work on the streets of ...
Daniel J. Graeber | Posted 05.11.2012
Planned oil embargoes by the European Union could be seen as largely symbolic moves by opponents of the Islamic republic, though it's the pressure on Tehran's finances that appear to be striking the biggest blow.
Reuters | Posted 05.11.2012
By Marcus George DUBAI, March 11 (Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has launched a fresh tirade against the West, sayin...
BootsnAll | Posted 05.09.2012
Sometimes massive murals cover entire buildings and artists use their medium to create beauty in an otherwise gritty landscape.
Jayshree Bajoria | Posted 04.23.2012
A failure to reach a diplomatic solution carries huge costs: tensions between Iran and the West continue to rise in what some have called a shadow war.
Haggai Carmon | Posted 04.18.2012
Did the three suspected Iranians terrorists in Bangkok reenact a scene from the early 1920s silent film comedies -- the Keystone Kops featuring clumsy...
Reuters | Posted 04.15.2012
TEHRAN, Feb 13 (Reuters) - Young Iranians abandoned thoughts of sanctions, nuclear power and economic hardship on Tuesday in favour of shopping for ...
AP | By NASSER KARIMI | Posted 01.31.2012
TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran's president on Tuesday lauded his country's newly launched Spanish-language satellite TV channel, saying it would deal a blow to ...
Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 03.07.2012
In the game of high stakes international chicken with Tehran, the better diplomacy is to turn the chairs and force the ayatollahs to blink first.
Reuters | Posted 02.29.2012
TEHRAN, Dec 31 (Reuters) - Iran test-fired long range missiles on Saturday during a naval exercise in the Gulf, the semi-official Fars news agency rep...
Roshanak Taghavi | Posted 02.25.2012
Headlines around the world have been abuzz since Tuesday about the precarious state of Iran's economy, after the market rate for the Islamic Republic's currency, the rial, dropped over 10 percent in less than a day to its lowest level ever against the dollar.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jon Ward | Posted 12.20.2011
SIOUX CITY, Iowa -- After Thursday night's GOP presidential primary debate, an influential Iowa Republican leaned over to a reporter for The Huffingto...
Abbas Rezai | Posted 02.11.2012
The disputable meeting between Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki and President Obama will be held today in the White House. Mr. Maliki will be accompanied by Hadi Ameri, a government minister who has been the Commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards 9th Badr corps.
AP | DONNA CASSATA | Posted 02.08.2012
WASHINGTON — Republicans and Democrats determined to look tough on Iran and avoid any election-year challenges to their pro-Israel bona fides ar...
Camelia Entekhabi-Fard | Posted 02.06.2012
These questions are not only being raised by the international community but by ordinary Iranians as well.
The Huffington Post | Sasha von Oldershausen | Posted 05.24.2012