Inside Iran
In Inside Iran
Inside Iran
- By Maziar Bahari
- 11 September 2008
It is the country the west fears most - and knows least about. In our exclusive reports, Iranian writers describe the extraordinary contradictions of life under Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's "Loving Government" - and reveal how Iran sees the west. Maziar Bahari, a leading journalist, begins with a drive across downtown Tehran
“Economics is for donkeys”
- By Robert Tait
- 11 September 2008
While oil prices remain high, Iran can afford its contempt for economic orthodoxy
Living with a revolution
- 11 September 2008
Iranian photographers capture the sharp disparity between public and private life in the Islamic Republic
''The shah's plan was to build bombs''
- By Maziar Bahari
- 11 September 2008
Akbar Etemad, the shah's chief atomic energy adviser, tells Maziar Bahari about the unlikely birth of Iran's nuclear programme
Battle of the blogs
- By Asieh Amini
- 11 September 2008
Internet campaigners for civil liberties and women's rights pay a high price for their "online crimes"
Power games
- By Dominic Byrne
- 11 September 2008
In Iran, wrestling is more than just a sport. Dominic Byrne visits a Tehran "house of strength" to find out why
Another Afghanistan
- By Salil Tripathi
- 11 September 2008
The Wasted Vigil
Nadeem Aslam Faber & Faber, 384pp, £17.99
Iran’s foreign policy: what the west should know
- 11 September 2008
The Islamic Republic's international agenda can baffle westerners. Sadegh Kharazi, a former Iranian ambassador to France, describes the principles that underpin it
