Monarchy 2003
REPLY
Weight
of history
... would seem to reflect that any good from Qajar rule
was in spite of them, not because of them
By James M. Nugent
HISTORY
Baazgoshaaee-ye
parvandeye 28 Mordaad
Interview with Mahmoud Kashani
From ISNA
QAJAR
Villa
Danesh
Mystery solved: Prince Arfa's house in Monte Carlo
By Manoutcher Eskandari-Qajar
COUNTER-REVOLUTION
Villa
Dupont
How royalists seized an Iranian gunboat off Spain
By Cyrus Kadivar
IDEAS
From
Islam to the West
Interview with Dariush Homayoun
By Reza Bayegan
IDEAS
Why
I'm not a monarchist
We cannot turn back history
By Amil Imani
QAJARS
Persia's
honor
Remembering Soltan Ahmad Shah
By Manoutchehr Eskandari-Qajar
COMMENT
Leave
us alone
'Noble' and 'dignity' do not apply to the behavior of the
Qajar rulers
By Mahan Esfahani
FOREIGN
AID
Beaming
in Senegal
One of many attempts by Iran to be on the
world scene during the oil boom, and why not?
Written
and photographed by Farhad Sepahbody
JAB
Liaaghat
nadaashtim
Those "good-for-nothing" Qajars
By Manoutchehr Eskandari-Qajar
POINT
Iruni-baazi
Settle the Mossadegh issue & forget about the A-bomb
By Alidad Vassigh
REQUIEM
Burial
of an aristocrat
Houshang Vaziri, 1931-2003
By Reza Bayegan
BOOK
Familiar
fantasy
Similarities in Hergé's "Land of the Black
Pelican" and the "Land of the Peacock Throne"
By Darius Kadivar
POINTS
Replies
in earnest
On the complete idiot's guide to the CIA
REVIEW
Notable
success!
A complete idiot's guide to the CIA
By Moe
OPINION
Mossadegh
saved the Shah
The prime minister's inaction paved the way for the Shah's
return to power in 1953
By Fereydoun Hoveyda
OPINION
Forgotten
fighters
We must recognize the huge sacrifices made by thousands
of "Tudehies" for a better Iran
By Babak Khosravi
POLITICS
We
need a break, for good
Khalil Maleki's letter to Mohammad Mossadegh and
the godless road ahead
By Jahanshah Javid
1953
COUP
Let
it rest
It's
been
50 years
already!
Move
on, as
other
countries
have
By An Iranian
MOSSADEGH
The
day democracy died
August 19, 1953
By Fariba Amini
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INTERVIEW
Khodaavand
ham qaader neest...
Interview on the 1953 coup
Ramin Kamran
POLITICS
16
months
Possible directions Iran may be heading
By Afshar Koorosh
PAHLAVI
Waiting
Rome
Once upon a time the lobby was crowded with members
of the paparazzi waiting to snap a photo of the royal couple
By Cyrus Kadivar
APPEAL
Million
Iranian march
How about 13 days after Norooz (April 3, 2004)?
By Amil Imani
OPINION
People
want the world
... NOT leftist, idealist, Islamic-reformist, intellectual
concoctions
By Amir
STATE
XYZ
Government
Readers offer their vision for Iran's future
By Naghmeh Sohrabi
STATESMAN
Man
in the middle
Hoveyda sacrificed by opposing camps, one to save the crown
the other to trash it
By Mahmoud Ghaffari
OPINION
This
chap aint no champion
I am angry that Iranians are so naïve as to fall
fo Reza Pahlavi
By Ali Ezzatyar
REFERENDUM
You
the people
We the Rulers
By Naghmeh Sohrabi
REFERENDUM
Are
we worthy?
... enough to have Reza Pahlavi back? Yes we are.
By Amir-Khosrow Sheibany
IRAN-US
Change
will come from within
Interview with a former American diplomat in Tehran
By Fariba Amini
REVOLUTION
A
raw deal
The Shah and the Ayatollah six months before the revolution
By Bahram Bahramian
OPINION
The
last thing Iran needs
Do people of Iran really need a foreigner to bring democracy?
By Laleh Larijani
OPINION
Shah
of State
Serving no more than eight years
By Baraitna Irani
REPUBLIC
Baraaye
ettehaad-e jomhourikhaahaan-e Iran
Republicans unite for democracy
INTERVIEW
Comedy
dar vaashangton
Bourgeois Iranian opposition meeting in Washington
Interview with Ali Javadi
DIPLOMATIC
DIARY
Cats & dogs
The Shah's visit to France, with a few untold accounts
By Farhad Sepahbody
Part 1
Een
gozashteh beh cheh dard aayandeh meekhorad?
What good is our past?
By Ramin Kamran
Part 2
Gorooh-haaye
do-rageh
Hybrid political groups
By Ramin Kamran
IRANIANS
Battle
of symbols
Human rights alone need to be our goal
By Nema Milaninia
IRAN
Children
of a lesser God
Setting the record straight on my own generation's childhood
By Reza Bayegan
DIPLOMATIC DIARY
Will
anyone miss us?
Accompanying the Shah on a visit to communist Russia
By Farhad Sepahbody
BOOK
Monarchy
and theocracy
The Impact of Iranian mythology on the Islamic revolution
By Fereydoun Hoveyda
IRANIANS
Battle
of symbols
Human rights alone need to be our goal
By Nema Milaninia
IRAN
Children
of a lesser God
Setting the record straight on my own generation's childhood
By Reza Bayegan
DIPLOMATIC DIARY
Will
anyone miss us?
Accompanying the Shah on a visit to communist Russia
By Farhad Sepahbody
BOOK
Monarchy
and theocracy
The Impact of Iranian mythology on the Islamic revolution
By Fereydoun Hoveyda
IRAN
Beating
Reza about the Bush
Is Pahlavi an Ahamad Chalabi in the making?
By Kasra Ardavan
SURVEY
No
surprise?
Iranian of the year
By Jahanshah Javid
SHAHANSHAHI
Reform
or rebirth for Iran?
After the death of Khomeini's republic
By Amir-Khosrow Sheibany and Mihandoust
OPINION
A
bridge from winter to spring
Reza Pahlavi's Misagh
By Reza Bayegan
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