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From the archives: Iran in the 1960s - in pictures
10 Sep 2014, 6:24 EDT: The 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 -
The price of an education for Afghan refugees in Iran
5 Sep 2014, 8:45 EDT: Families brave xenophobia and economic woes to give their children the chance of a better future -
Iranian women's magazine editor accused of promoting feminist views
5 Sep 2014, 2:00 EDT: Shahla Sherkat , prominent journalist who launched the monthly title Zanan-e Emruz in May, has been called to appear before Iran’s press court. RFE/RL reports -
Alone again, naturally: women singing in Iran
29 Aug 2014, 7:07 EDT: Music 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 place
26 Aug 2014, 10:36 EDT: German 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 -
Iranian artist remembers Iraq, in another war
20 Aug 2014, 10:20 EDT: The advance of ISIS has rekindled memories of the bloody Iraq-Iran conflict in the late 1980s. The Tehran Bureau speaks to the visual artist who is reconstructing its fragmented narrative one object at a time -
A tour of Tehran by Neighbourhood: Ekbatan - in pictures
18 Aug 2014, 9:40 EDT: Photographer Khashayar Sharifaee captures scenes from everyday life at one of the capital’s first highrise communities -
Holiday memories of Iran's Caspian Sea
12 Aug 2014, 8:34 EDT: A 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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Jane Kinninmont: Military responses as a quick fix won't defeat the terrorists. Their ideology and influence need to be undermined
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Sam Howison: Almost half of maths undergraduates are now women, but winning recognition at the very top of the profession has been a battle
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Trevor Timm: James Risen is out of chances. It’s time for the government to stop harassing a journalist for doing his job
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Azriel Bermant: The missile defence shield, currently blocking Hamas rockets, limits the need for pre-emptive strikes by any country that has it
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Editorial: Arrests in Tehran, including the Washington Post correspondent, test the promise of a more liberal era
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Michael Axworthy: Despite suggestions that the deadline for negotiations may be extended, the benefits of a settlement for all parties are now in plain view
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Norman Lamont: Both sides must forget their historical grievances if there is to be a successful outcome to the ongoing negotiations
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Saeed Kamali Dehghan: It campaigned for al-Jazeera journalists imprisoned in Egypt and defended BBC Persian staff, so why not defend this journalist?
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State media says no cause for concern as 75-year-old undergoes 'routine' operation in Tehran
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IAEA inspectors gained rare access to plant where centrifuges for enriching uranium are developed as part of transparency deal, reports say
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Expulsions believed to be linked to government fears that Iranian officials were promoting Shia Islam in majority-Sunni country
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Greenslade 6hr 49min ago
Fears for jailed journalists on hunger strike in Iranian jails
12 Sep 2014:News website workers denied medical help
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Manuscripts Don't Burn 17hr 29min ago
Manuscripts Don’t Burn review – Iranian hitmen on a mission to silence
11 Sep 2014: Based on real events, this thriller bravely explores Iran’s attempt to suppress knowledge of its assassination of intellectuals, writes Leslie Felperin -
Rosewater 2 days ago
Rosewater review – Jon Stewart's Iran-interrogation drama creaks at the edges
9 Sep 2014: Paul MacInnes: Master TV satirist Jon Stewart’s directorial debut, about a journalist jailed in Iran, is well-meaning but there aren’t quite enough laughs to prevent it from being dreary on the eye -
Iran 5 days ago
Iran told jet carrying Americans to land because of expenses and paperwork
6 Sep 2014: Chartered jet from Afghanistan was allowed to proceed to Dubai after several hours with warning that ‘Iran strongly defends its territory’ -
US military 6 days ago
US military contractors on plane forced to make abrupt landing in Iran
5 Sep 2014: American officials say ‘bureaucratic’ issue caused plane full of contractors to land, before resuming journey to Dubai -
The big energy debate 7 days ago
Why Middle East conflict is a bigger threat to UK energy security than Putin
5 Sep 2014: Energy economics expert Laura El-Katiri finds world oil markets have responded with surprising resilience in the face of uncertainty. But are prices set to rocket? -
Iraq 10 days ago
UN to send investigators to Iraq over Islamic State 'atrocities'
1 Sep 2014: Jihadis and Iraqi government forces both carried out 'acts of inhumanity', says human rights commissioner -
Iran 11 days ago
Iran-Iraq conflict remembered through the lives of widows
1 Sep 2014: A 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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Iran's prisoners of conscience – an interactive guide
As Iran gears up for a presidential election in June, the conditions in which prisoners of conscience are held in some of the country's most notorious prisons have worsened. Here are some of the activists, students, journalists, women's rights campaigners, lawyers, artists, former politicians and members of Iran's religious and ethnic minorities who have been jailed or convicted in recent years
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