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Maziar Bahari released on bail

Newsweek reporter released after being held in Iran since June

Iran’s nuclear threat is a lie

Iran’s nuclear threat is a lie

Obama's "showdown" with Iran has another agenda. The media have been tasked with preparing the public for endless war

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Iran and lazy journalism

Muddled Metro gets it wrong on nukes

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Meet the ayatollahs

Meet the ayatollahs

As Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is sworn in again as president amid further protests, Juan Cole, one of the world’s leading experts on Shia Islam, introduces the senior clerics whose conflicting views are influencing events in Iran

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New Statesman writer arrested in Iran

New Statesman writer arrested in Iran

Journalist and broadcaster Maziar Bahari detained following the regime's crackdown in Tehran.

We must allow the people of Iran to bring about the change they want to see

We must allow the people of Iran to bring about the change they want to see

The Obama administration and the British government should be praised for the restraint they have shown

After the revolution

After the revolution

30 years on from the Islamic revolution, can sensible, sober diplomacy win out?

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A bleak future for Baha'is

A bleak future for Baha'is

International pressure may have set Roxana Saberi free, but the plight of seven Iranian Baha'is, imprisoned in Tehran a year ago, has gone largely unnoticed.

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More in Iran

Ayatollah Khomeini's funeral

The funeral of Ayatollah Khomeini was not a tragedy, writes James Buchan, but a gruesome farce: idolatrous, makeshift, deadly and utterly lacking in self-control

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Children of the revolution

David Patrikarakos on Iran’s Revolutionary Guard

''The shah's plan was to build bombs''

Akbar Etemad, the shah's chief atomic energy adviser, tells Maziar Bahari about the unlikely birth of Iran's nuclear programme

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Iran: The war begins

As opposition grows in America to the failed Iraq adventure, the Bush administration is preparing public opinion for an attack on Iran, its latest target, by the spring.

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How Iran went nuclear

David Patrikarakos tells the remarkable story of the Islamic Republic’s nuclear programme, which began as an expression of western modernity but has now hardened into a statement of reaction, isolation and rage

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Fidel Castro

The last revolutionary

The last revolutionary

Steve Richards

On Tory policy

Our future in their hands

Science

Religion and Darwin

Since the dawn  of time

James Macintyre

Miliband's dilemma

Brussels is back with a vengeance

Will Self

On Oscar Wilde

Where the Wilde things are

Film review

Bright Star

Bright Star (PG)

Books

Paul Auster

Invisible

Interview

Alain de Botton

The Books Interview: Alain de Botton

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