The South That Iran Promised But Never Builds
The southern coast provides oil, gas, ports, and strategic depth, while remaining poor. Tehran pledged to transform it with a new maritime economy.
The southern coast provides oil, gas, ports, and strategic depth, while remaining poor. Tehran pledged to transform it with a new maritime economy.
Ali Khamenei’s profligate six-day funeral spotlights both new rifts in the IRI base and the seeming rise of the pro-regime “bihejab” girl.
Housing construction stalls, purchase prices climb out of reach for many amid Iran’s war-struck economy.
Team Melli, once a rare source of Iranian unity, is now yet another fault line.
A scion of Qom’s elite Salarieh quarter turns poverty into a human resource for the Islamic Republic.
Cash-strapped Tehranis are skipping meals, selling assets, and buying basic goods on credit as prices soar and jobs vanish.
A war of choice to devastate the Iranian military has instead empowered its most hardline forces.
As millions sink into poverty and precarity rises for millions more, anger deepens.
An Iranian economist speaks with Tehran Bureau about the country’s postwar outlook and the Guards’ growing sway.
Gareth Smyth talks to Yossi Alpher about his latest book, Death Tango, focused on the 2002 Arab Summit
Photography helped propel the Iranian Revolution, and the Revolution helped push the boundaries of documentary photography in the country.
What Revolution photos tell us and what they don’t.