You don’t get to act like a victim any more. “Poor little Israel” just sounds silly when you’re the dominant power in the Middle East.

Like all the Islamic Republic’s first ladies, the wife of Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad has been something of a phantom, with very occasional public appearances

Not quite three years ago, Arsham Parsi was an Iranian refugee in Turkey. Today, he is executive director of the Iranian Queer Railroad, trying to

“Please make sure the children know that I was guilty of nothing. With those words, Colonel Mohammad Bagher Latifi bid his wife a final farewell

سردار رادان: “قرار گرفتن چکمه بر روی شلوار به دلیل نشان دادن بخشی از برجستگی بدن از مصادیق شرع است و تبرج به حساب می

January 21, 2009 Arab Comment: I lost my gloves one day in a coffee shop in Geneva, and I tell you, it’s difficult to ride

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Last week, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said the special relationship between the UK and US – with Barack Obama in place – would go on

I was just reading this: So if we can’t stop Iran from going nuclear, and we don’t have the power to change the regime, and

Here is the shortlist for the 81st Academy Awards, which are being held at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles on 22 February. Iran’s Majid

The Young Crown Prince Reza sips his first Champagne during the Coronation After Party at Golestan Palace. Tehran, October 26th 1967 Recommended Website: Tehran Coronation

The Buyin-Zara earthquake of 1 September 1962.The earthquake killed 12,225 and injured 2,776 persons. It damaged beyond repair 21,310 houses and killed 35% of the

The men were hanged on Wednesday morning at a jail in the capital, Tehran, the Iran newspaper reported. The BBC’s correspondent in Iran says the

A Dutch court has ordered prosecutors to put a right-wing politician on trial for making anti-Islamic statements. Freedom Party leader Geert Wilders made a controversial

Two prominent Iranian Aids doctors have been jailed for a total of nine years for their part in an alleged coup plot. Brothers Arash Alaei

More British passengers died on the Titanic because they queued politely for lifeboats, researchers believe. A behavioural economist says data suggests Britons in that era

The Israeli assault on Gaza has drawn to an end, now that its Great Enabler (W.) is no longer in the cockpit of the Calamity

“The UAE’s approach to development of civil nuclear energy stands in direct contrast to Iran’s pursuit of nuclear capabilities incompatible with IAEA and UN Security

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The original can be read on www.readingtehran.com Five-thousand homes destroyed,more than 1300 killed, and thousands of injured – yet,Hamas is still in charge of the

The Simone de Beauvoir award ceremony in honour of campaign for one million signatures took place in Café Les Deux-Magots in Paris where most meetings

Universal human rights are being trampled underfoot in the Islamic “Republic” of Iran. In particular, the Baha’is in Iran are regarded as people with no

Israeli troops have withdrawn from Gaza following the military campaign designed to degrade Hamas’s ability to continue firing rockets at Israeli civilians. The tenuous ceasefire

Second Deputy Chairman of the Foreign Policy and National Security Parliamentary Commission in Iran said the Security Ministry arrested several BBC Persian Service reporters who

BRUSSELS, Jan 22 (Reuters) – European states have reached a preliminary agreement to remove exiled Iranian opposition group the People’s Mujahideen Organisation of Iran (PMOI)