Search Results for: Iran
The Point of No Return
For The Obama Administration, The Prospect Of A Nuclearized Iran Is Dismal To Contemplate: It Would Create Major New National-Security Challenges And Crush The President’S Dream Of Ending Nuclear Proliferation.
After the Crackdown
Talking to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad — and the opposition — about Iran today.
Obama’s Bad Cops
Clinton’s played the heavy with Iran, Russia, and even Israel—and her sometimes hawkish views are finding favor with the president.
The Professor of War
At 57, General David Petraeus has revolutionized the way America fights its wars, starting with the surge in Iraq and continuing into his current command, with responsibility for Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, and Yemen.
Watching Shrek In Tehran
The Seen And The Unseen In Iranian Cinema
118 Days, 12 Hours, 54 Minutes
On June 21, reporter Maziar Bahari was rousted out of bed and taken to Tehran’s notorious Evin prison—accused of being a spy for the CIA, MI6, Mossad. This is the story of his captivity—and of an Iran whose rampant paranoia underpins an ever more fractured regime.
Persian Puzzlement
Iran: What our spies don’t know
Scheme of Rivals
Egypt versus Iran.
Dispatch from Tehran: Blood and defiance in Azadi Square
On Monday, huge crowds braved violence to protest the Iranian election results.
The Hidden Censors of the Internet
Journey with us to a state where an unaccountable panel of censors vets 95 per cent of citizens’ domestic internet connections. The content coming into each home is checked against a mysterious blacklist by a group overseen by nobody, which keeps secret the list of censored URLs not just from citizens, but from internet service providers themselves. And until recently, few in that country even knew the body existed. Are we in China? Iran? Saudi Arabia? No – the United Kingdom, in 2009.