March 2010
Challenging Iran's Leaders at Their Own Game
The U.S. needs to act like a diplomatic superpower too. [ opinion ] Though the threat of more economic sanctions have eased for now and the threat of military strikes...
An Administration Plagued by Fraud and Corruption
Ahmadinejad and His Men: Embodiments of Fraud and Corruption. [ comment ] There is no doubt in the minds of many Iranians, including the author, that Tehran's hardliners committed fraud...
Tehran's Annus Mirabilis
[ comment ] The stunning birth and flowering of Iran's democratic movement this past year has largely been the work of Tehran's courageous residents. These battle-weary street fighters are now...
Ferdowsi's Shahkar
How does one begin an article about the greatest poet in Iranian history? One stumbles along, sadly, helplessly, pathetically, attempting to sound profound and insightful, giving the poet his due...
'Not by Street Demonstrations Alone'
An interview with Saeed Rahnema Saeed Rahnema was active in the labor and left movement during the 1979 revolution in Iran. He was a founder and a member of the...
Selected Headlines
Press Roundup will resume in early April. Photos courtesy of Pictures of Persia....
Iran-US advisory group recommends technology-based policy
An advisory task force comprising U.S., EU, and Iranian members was convened by The Century Foundation's Inside Iran project in collaboration with the National Security Network -- two policy research...
A Step Too Far
[ opinion ] "This trip to Israel was a New Year's gift to the Iranian regime," read one reaction from an internet user who, like many, was enraged by Caspian...
Hope for Iranians in the French Torture Game
[ comment ] A group of French psychologists recently recruited 80 volunteers for what they claimed was a pilot for a new TV show. The game involved posing questions to...
Selected Headlines
Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Iranian press, and excerpts where the source is in English. The link to the news organization or blog is...
Biden, Israel, and Tehran's Hardliners
[ opinion ] In the depth of their worries about the deep crisis into which they have brought Iran over the past nine months; amid all the problems that they...
A Haus for the Islamic Republic
[ opinion ] On March 14, a week before Nowrouz, the Iranian New Year, a conference was held in Hamburg, Germany, to commemorate a new cultural project, Iran Haus. Rahim...
Nowruz 1389
nowruz timetable Tehran Saturday 09:02:00 p.m. 20 March 10 New York Saturday 1:32:00 p.m. 20 Mar 2010 Chicago Saturday 12:32:00 p.m. 20 Mar 2010 Denver Saturday 11:32:00 a.m. 20...
What's next--the 'Arabian' Gulf?
[ comment ] Whenever officials of the Islamic Republic start paying too much attention to something it usually means that there is cause for concern, that a new fault has...
Videos: Chaharshanbeh Souri
Iran Tehran 16 March 2010 Protest Chahar shanabe soori P1 16 March حملهٔ پلیس ضد شورش با موتور و سپر- شب چارشنبه سوری Iran - Exclusive Isfahan 16 March 2010...
Conference of the Birds
In my youth I envisioned beautiful magical birds and avidly frequented and lost myself in the woods and flower gardens of my childhood dwellings. I was entranced by fairy...
Selected Headlines
Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Iranian press, and excerpts where the source is in English. The link to the news organization or blog is provided...
'Temporary Marriage' and the Economy of Pleasure
Feminist Political Scientist Condemns "Temporary Marriage" as Exploitation This article was first published on the Alborz website on January 9, 2010. In Iran, "temporary marriage," which was originally called sigheh...
Sharpen the Peaceful Weapon
Smarter slogans can boost the opposition's strength on and off the street. [ opinion ] The next major occasion slated for street protests in Iran is unclear. Will it...
Weekend Headlines
Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Iranian press, and excerpts where the source is in English. The link to the news organization or blog is provided...
Mojtaba Vahedi: Ahmadinejad-Khamenei Rift Widening
A senior aide to opposition cleric Mehdi Karroubi said today that Iran's supreme leader has cooled his support for president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Mojtaba Vahedi, chief of staff to Mehdi Karroubi...
Iran's Uranium Enrichment Program (Part I)
Amid the deep crisis faced by Iran since the June 2009 rigged presidential election and its aftermath, tension between the Islamic Republic and the United States and its allies has...
Selected Headlines
Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Iranian press, and excerpts where the source is in English. The link to the news organization or blog is provided...
Breaking the Stereotypes of Persia and Iran
[ comment ] The West has constructed the dual identities of Persia and Iran as alter egos, the former the ancient civilization, the latter the modern one. Persia is...
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Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Iranian press, and excerpts where the source is in English. The link to the news organization or blog is provided...
A Well-Lighted Place
Tehran is a city inhabited by millions dashing, driving, and edging past one another every day. Those from smaller towns live to get to Tehran. Residents of Tehran would die...
Selected Headlines
Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Iranian press, and excerpts where the source is in English. The link to the news organization or blog is provided...
Selected Headlines
Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Iranian press, and excerpts where the source is in English. The link to the news organization or blog is provided...
Early Feminist Cartoons
Cartoons depicting Iranian women from 1900 to 1917 On the way to the public bath: "You cannot trust women or horses." "Wow, look Karbalaie Hassan! A foreign woman!" Reprinted by...
Spotlight: Golbarg Bashi + Iranian Women
golbarg bashi From One Third World Woman to Another | read Picturing Ourselves: 1953, 1979 and 2009 | read Iranian Feminism after June 2009 | read Feminist waves in...
Selected Headlines
Basij to be in charge of neighborhood watch Fararu | March 7, 2010 After meetings with IRGC officials it was decided that Basij patrols would be assigned to neighborhood watches...
On Fire
Suicides plague a town grappling with modernization. May 2009 Ilam, a city near Kermanshah in western Iran, is surrounded by oak-covered mountains. It has very narrow streets and just a...
'I'll Huff and I'll Puff'
Ramin Haerizadeh's exhibition "I'll Huff and I'll Puff" on Sunday March 14 in Dubai features new collages that stage an assault on the imagery he has grown up with...
Selected Headlines
Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Iranian press, and excerpts where the source is in English. The link to the news organization or blog is provided...
Habitats
Home and Album NYT | March 6, 2010 Mr. Yomtobian, 26, was born in Tehran to Jewish parents, the youngest of four children. In 1987, after years of tumult that...
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Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Iranian press, and excerpts where the source is in English. The link to the news organization or blog is provided...
A Winning Strategy
A Winning Strategy: Principles for Effective Civil Disobedience in Iran. [ opinion ] In the nine remarkable months since the fraudulent June 12 election, more and more people in Iran...
Different Shades of Green
[ opinion ] The debate over the future direction of the Green Movement has taken on new urgency since the events in Tehran on February 11, the 31st anniversary of...
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Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Iranian press, and excerpts where the source is in English. The link to the news organization or blog is provided...
The 50/50 Club: Author Saïd Sayrafiezadeh
[ Q & A ] Saïd Sayrafiezadeh is a member of what I like to call the 50/50 club, the offspring of one Iranian and one non-Iranian parent. When I...
Iranian DNA or Fear of Déjà vu?
Is the Green opposition beset by the inability of Iranians to work together, or is it simply trying to avoid repeating the mistakes of 1979? [ analysis ] The one...
Selected Headlines
Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Iranian press, and excerpts where the source is in English. The link to the news organization or blog is provided...
Selected Headlines
Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Iranian press, and excerpts where the source is in English. The link to the news organization or blog is provided...
Spotlight: Muhammad Sahimi
Dr. Muhammad Sahimi is a political columnist for Tehran Bureau. He is a professor of chemical engineering and materials science, and the NIOC Chair in petroleum engineering at the...
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