Publishers Weekly on The Shah a biography by Abbas Milani: Over the course of almost 40 years, Mohammad Reza Shah was a colossus in Iran,

A couple of days after June’s stolen election in Iran, Flynt Leverett and I were both guests on “The Charlie Rose Show.” Mr. Leverett was

Eminent Persians The Men and Women Who Made Modern Iran, 1941-1979 Volumes One and Two by Abbas Milani (Author)  Syracuse University Press , 2008 As

I teach courses on modern Iranian politics and culture at Stanford University. A couple of years ago iranian.com agreed to publish some of the best

Introduction “Israel must be wiped off the face of the map,” proclaimed Iran’s newly elected president, Muhmoud Ahmadinejad, a mere five months into his term. 

In early January of this year, a prominent American journalist published a strangely inaccurate attack on Iran, making the country complicit in the crimes of

Paper submitted in a class taught by Abbas Milani last quarter at Stanford University called “Tradition and Modernity in Iranian literature.” Dr. Milani is Director

Paper submitted in a class taught by Abbas Milani last quarter at Stanford University called “Tradition and Modernity in Iranian literature.” Dr. Milani is Director

I have chosen “Modern and Progressive Social and Cultural Norms” as the topic of my speech as I think these phenomena have become an area

I grew up around a kerosene heater, the kind that caused the fire in Tehran's Arg Mosque last Tuesday. They are damn messy. Owning one

There was a time I was obsessed with all the voices coming out of the now defunct Soviet Empire. The samizdat was great — and

<!– Put alternate code here for browsers not supporting IFRAME –> Identity May 7, 2004 iranian.com After my recent piece on an imaginary coffee with

I am lucky. I am able to regularly see my best friend Fardad, someone I have known and grown up with since we first met

The Foreign Affairs Committee of UK's House of Commons has issued a report on Iran [Complete TEXT]. I glanced at it and thought it's pretty

In her article ” Gay geography”, the author perceptively highlights certain narrowness of perspective evident in my ” Disgruntled impressions”, raising a number of provocative

I wanted to reply to Ms. Fahimi's article “What if I wore the hejab?”. Let me identify myself first by acknowledging that I am neither Persian/Iranian

I watch all these happy gay people getting married on national television and it makes me wonder what Tony must be saying to all this.

Scene one INT. PRESIDENT'S KHATAMI'S RESIDENCE. TEHRAN PRESIDENT: So my dear Prince Charles. CHARLES: My dear president. PRESIDENT: What brings you to Iran, twenty-five years

I always saw the Iranian.com's “nothing is sacred” moto and never paid too much attention to it, well, that is up until a few days

Did you hear the tale of the mermaid that left the ocean to live as a human, paying the small price of her voice in