Here is my recollection of the first meeting with Mehrdad: At Iranshahr office, a dinky, dusty outfit at Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, Virginia. Mehrdad and a

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The Durban Review Conference held in Geneva in April was set to examine progress made toward the goals of the previous conference in 2001: to

  A written correspondence between the late Ayatollah Khomeini and the then commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRGC), Mohsen Rezai, has given some insight

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The palace that to Heave'n his pillars threw, And king's forehead on his threshold drew- I saw the solitary ringdove there, And “Coo, coo, coo”

Once upon a time Baghdad and Isfahan were celebrated as citadels of wealth and culture in the East. They were a source of pride; they

Czechoslovakia — now divided into Czech and Slovak republics — is probably one of the rare states that has suffered at least three name changes