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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
Obama's "showdown" with Iran has another agenda. The media have been tasked with preparing the public for endless war
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
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
The Obama administration and the British government should be praised for the restraint they have shown
After the revolution
30 years on from the Islamic revolution, can sensible, sober diplomacy win out?
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.
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
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
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.
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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