The Iranian revolution
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From institution to Iranian revolution: Unedited History 1960-2014A new exhibition in Rome charts the enduring artistic life of Iran over the turbulence of its past fifty years. -
Sex, violence and lots of dancing - the soundtrack to Iran pre 1979Street thugs were often the dominant characters in commercial Iranian cinema - especially in the decade before the revolution. The love interest was either pure and veiled, or unveiled and up to no good. ShahreFarang has this collection of art gracing the record sleeves of FilmFarsi music
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Ayatollah Khamenei frees Iran bloggerIran leader releases Hossein Derakhshan, suspected of spying for Israel and given prison term of 19 years for ‘insulting Islam’
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Navid Khonsari, immigrant entrepreneur, revisits his roots in video game about the 1979 Iranian Revolution
US small business Navid Khonsari, immigrant entrepreneur, revisits his roots in video game about the 1979 Iranian Revolution
Navid Khonsari is going back to his Iranian roots to produce a new video game, 1979 Revolution -
Documenting the 1979 Iranian revolution … in a video game – video
Navid Khonsari immigrated from Iran to the US and created the production company, Ink Stories in Brooklyn. Now they're building a video game documentary about the seminal 1979 Iranian revolution
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The lucrative business of mourning in IranSinging eulogies has become a profitable career path in the Islamic republic, with performer demands increasingly reading like a rock star rider
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How political tensions play out in Iran's universitiesReformist students have welcomed the initial steps taken by President Hassan Rouhani and morale is relatively high. But is unrest brewing?
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From the archives: Iran in the 1960s - in picturesThe march toward modernity coincided with Ayatollah Khomeini’s exile to Najaf in 1964, and the assassination of the secular prime minister Hassan Ali Mansour just a few months later. Meanwhile foreign firms, especially American ones, poured into the country. And for a period until the beginning of the revolution in 1978, old and new coexisted in seeming harmony
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Iran-Iraq conflict remembered through the lives of widowsA commemorative literary series pays tribute to fallen soldiers and the war wives who grappled with loss and grief long after the conflict came to an end
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Alone again, naturally: women singing in IranMusic and theatre directors are in a tug of war with hardliners who find women singing solo too provocative
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Iran in the 80s – a glimpse of a forbidden placeGerman photographer Casey Hugelfink had access to the Islamic republic in the dark decade after the 1979 revolution, throughout the Iran-Iraq war, when the country was sealed off to reporters and most of the world
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Holiday memories of Iran's Caspian SeaA trip to the coast after the revolution felt like an escape to freedom, but a few things got in the way
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Hitting the beach in hijab in IranWomen are prohibited from swimming in the sea unless it’s in designated areas hidden from view. Or they can watch the men and children have fun
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Many Iranians want military to intervene against IsisIsis violence in Iraq, and its vicious hatred of Shia Muslims, have alarmed Iranians and encouraged many to call for military intervention
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Iran's complex Khuzestan region through the eyes of its childrenA schoolteacher provides a window on the lives of Arabs and other ethnic minorities in region known as the 'birthplace of the nation'
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The birth of Iranian football – in picturesBritish employees of the Anglo Persian Oil Company first introduced Iranians to football, the Shah invested heavily in the sport as part of his modernization drive and in 1979 the revolution put a stop to things for a while
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Scheherazade lives on in TehranCurator Ali Ettehad explains the popularity of Performance Art in Iran and why he was inspired by the narrator of One Thousand and One Nights to launch his own series
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Iran's rock stars and their underground scenePhotographer Jai Brodie meets some of the capital's biggest stars, in a country where rock music is illegal and brandishing an electric guitar could land you in trouble with the police
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Young Iranians 'claustrophobic' as culture is forced online but accessed in privateIran's youth talk of social isolation as they're forced to navigate a dual existence – in a closed society and the seemingly more open space on the web
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Ahmad Nasrollahi and the quest for Iranian identitySubtle renderings of Persian legends, archetypes, and ancient visual motifs into contemporary life, Nasrollahi's work is often concerned with profound psychological questions
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Iran's Bahá'í leaders mark six years in jail, imprisoned for their religionThe fate of the Baha’i minority is not theirs alone, they represent all Iranians who do not conform in one way or another, says Ramin Ahmadi
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Could Iran's high profile executions change capital punishment laws?From Reyhaneh Jabbari, to Balal, famous cases are shifting the discourse on human rights in the Islamic republic
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Iranian state TV interrupts live coverage of film festivalSpeeches referencing the Green Movement and valuing ‘young filmmakers’ repeatedly censored at this year’s Fajr film festival
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Iran's revolution at 35: a view from the streetPaying homage to the revolution is a complicated affair for many in Tehran, where the political and economic flux of the past year has left even the most ardent regime supporters confused about their allegiances
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Old guard v new blood at Iran’s Fajr film festival‘Fajr isn’t about discovering new talent, but showcasing the old. That’s how organizers have always sold tickets and gathered crowds’
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Persia in Crisis by Rudi Matthee – reviewAre there lessons for the Islamic republic in the fall of the Safavid empire?
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Iran's leaders need to forgive the 'Great Satan' to move forward – analysisThe prospect of improved relations with the US is a litmus test of just how far the Islamic republic is prepared to go to transform itself
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Iran Snapshots: Baba’s lost photoA nation forced to erase its personal history is condemned to a broader historical amnesia and doomed to repeat its mistakes
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Frag-counter revolutionaries: Iran 1979 revolution-based video game to launchThe new project is directed by Grand Theft Auto creative Navid Khonsari and voiced by Argo and Homeland cast members
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Iranian hardliners mark 1979 hostage crisis anniversary with huge protestsThousands rally in front of US embassy in Tehran in show of defiance against Hassan Rouhani's bid to ease tensions
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Iran's foreign minister expected to meet Kerry in diplomatic breakthroughMohammad Javad Zarif due to meet US secretary of state at UN in highest-level meeting since Iran's 1979 revolution
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Egypt would do well to heed lessons from Iran's 1979 revolutionWhen Ayatollah Khomeini rode an Islamist wave to create a new republic, mass executions and war with Iraq followed
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Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century by Christian Caryl – reviewJonathan Derbyshire on convulsions that created today's multipolar world
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Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century by Christian Caryl – reviewA compelling study argues that the rise of four ideologues to the world stage in 1979 had far-reaching consequences, writes Ian Thomson
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Sahar Delijani: 'I had to tell my family's story of the Iranian executions'Sahar Delijani's parents were jailed and her uncle was killed by Iran's Islamic Republic in the 1980s. She tells Laura Barnett how the painful episode became her first novel, Children of the Jacaranda Tree
