Whatever policy the United States adopts toward Iran, it will need to communicate it to the Iranian people. This will not be easy. Iranians are

In the very cold winter of 1979, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, returned to Qom, the spiritual capital of

Arguably the most important reason for the international interest in Iran is its strategically pivotal geography. Like some of its Muslim neighbours, it has tremendous

Nearly six months after the demonstrations that followed June’s disputed presidential election, Iran’s pro-democracy “green movement” is as strong as ever. Rallies took place in

By Mehdi Khalaji and Patrick Clawson While the United States is concentrating on the G-20 summit and the October 1 meeting with the secretary of

Sadeq Larijani, a young and inexperienced cleric with close ties to Iran’s military and intelligence agencies, has replaced Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi as head of the

Large-scale manipulation of Friday’s presidential election in Iran was to be expected, but few could have predicted that Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, had

On June 3, Iran marked the twentieth anniversary of Ali Khamenei’s appointment as the leader of Iran. While international attention is focused on the June

The decision of former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami not to seek the presidency again has revealed how muddled Iranian presidential politics now is. In trying

During a February trip to Iran, Hamas leader Khaled Mashal praised Iranian leaders for their support during the conflict in the Gaza Strip, a further

Iranian hardliners are using the Gaza Strip crisis as an opportunity to restate their claim as the true Muslim leaders by denouncing Arab governments as

In late May, an official close to Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad publicly accused more than forty high-ranking government officials — including some of the country’s

On May 14, the Iranian government arrested six prominent Bahai leaders and accused them of “endangering national security.” The timing of the arrests has led

On April 25, a second round of voting will determine the remaining eighty-eight seats of the Iranian Majlis. The first round, held on March 14,

As Iran’s March 14 parliamentary elections approach, the prospects for the reformist/technocratic coalition are predictably bleak. Yet, President Mahmoud Ahmadinezhad is expected to lose ground

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