Media in the Post-revolutionary Iran: A Timeline

Pressure on the media in Iran intensified shortly after the 1979 revolution, beginning with the shutdown of the “Ayandegan” newspaper, the seizure of major newspapers “Kayhan” and “Ettela’at”, and the persecution of numerous journalists through imprisonment and execution. In the aftermath of the revolution, Khomeini’s

Review of Books

Dancing with Death

Gareth Smyth talks to Yossi Alpher about his latest book, Death Tango, focused on the 2002 Arab Summit

Bad Grads: Educated in America

Bad Grads: Educated in America

Many Iranian officials who’ve studied in the United States have done anything but live up to the human rights–respecting reputation of a Western education.