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Outside August 2007 Josh Dean |
Powder Keg As you may have heard, they ski in Iran. As you may not have heard, the terrain is pretty sweet, there are dudes bouncing on the chairlifts, and the hills are alive with happy women in flowing robes. Can we make peace with this place immediately?  |
Reason February 2006 Michael Young |
Persian Letters Three personal accounts of modern Iran: Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America and American in Iran, by Azadeh Moaveni... Even After All This Time: A Story of Love, Revolution, and Leaving Iran, by Afschineh Latifi... etc.  |
Reason April 2002 Jesse Walker |
Soundbite: Dissent via Satellite Before the revolution of 1979, Zia Atabay was a successful pop singer in Iran. Now 60, he presides over National Iranian Television, a two-year-old, Los Angeles-based satellite TV station that broadcasts cultural and political programming to Iranians around the world...  |
Reason October 2007 Michael J. Totten |
The Next Iranian Revolution How armed exiles are working to topple Tehran's Islamic Government.  |
Smithsonian March 2005 Afshin Molavi |
Letter From Iran The regime may inflame Washington, but young Iranians say they admire, of all places, America.  |
Reason July 2003 Iraj Isaac Rahmim |
Where the Shah Went Alone Meditations on a life under tyranny  |
Salon.com January 11, 2001 Ben Barber |
Shutting down the Tehran Spring How religious hard-liners sabotaged reforms in Iran and earned the spite of their people...  |
BusinessWeek May 24, 2004 Reed & Pirouz |
Iran: The Mideast's Model Economy? It's one of the strangest paradoxes in the Mideast. One goal of the U.S. invasion of Iraq was to turn Baghdad into a model regional economy. But could it be that Iran will wind up filling that role?  |
Mother Jones May/Jun 2001 Camelia Entekhabi-Fard |
Behind the Veil Westerners see Iran's mandatory veil as a symbol of repression. But under cover of the hejab, Islamic women have gained more freedom than they -- or the fundamentalists -- could have imagined...  |
Reason September 2004 Marc C. Johnson |
Chatroom Revolutionaries Iran's dissidents and exiles discover the Web and are sending encrypted and compressed documents via U.S.-based free e-mail accounts, a tactic also used by organized criminals, terrorists, spies, journalists, and even businessmen.  |