The Risky Drive to Ratify the Caspian Convention
Nearly a decade since Hassan Rouhani signed the treaty, the Majles is being pushed to formally approve it, even as major issues remain unresolved.
Nearly a decade since Hassan Rouhani signed the treaty, the Majles is being pushed to formally approve it, even as major issues remain unresolved.
The country has no shortage of laws against financial wrongdoing. But it repeatedly fails to enforce them, while precious savings disappear.
One Tehrani’s account of the battle over Sanai Street and the capital’s public spaces.
An eyewitness recalls the 1999 events that made clear the regime would “use any level of violence to preserve itself,” including Ahmadinejad’s role.
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.
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.