Archive Sections: letters | music | index | features | photos | arts/lit | satire Find Iranian singles today!

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
>>> Magazine clips

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

>>> Monarchy: Past features

ARCHIVE
Monarchy
Past features

 

OPINION

Latest
Opinions

Archive
Opinions

September 11
Reaction

Mosaddegh
Archive

Revolution
What happened?

FIND IT
Search tips

* Key word
* All sections
* Author's name
* Feature writers

© Copyright 1995-2013, Iranian LLC.   |    User Agreement and Privacy Policy   |    Rights and Permissions