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…and NEWSWEEK. This is the story of his captivity—and of an Iran whose rampant...
ALI AKBAR DAREINI November 22, 2009 - 7:29AM AP Iran will begin large-scale air defence war games on Sunday aimed at protecting its nuclear facilities from possible attack, a senior military commander said on Saturday,...
It's the greatest yearly pilgrimage on Earth. BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | NOVEMBER 20, 2009 This month, hundreds of thousands of Muslim pilgrims from around the globe are converging upon the Saudi Arabian holy cities of Mecca and...
"We want to be like Janus, the Greek god because we wish to combine different values. We want to be able to mourn our own Neda Agha-Sultan and be sad about people dying in Gaza." This is how Mir-Hossein
Names like Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Fethullah Gülen, Abdullah Gül and Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu are ranked near the top of the world’s 500 most influential Muslims, according to a report published by the Amman-based Royal Islamic...
Following the escalation of protests by Iran's senior ayatollahs against the regime, some members of the Qom Seminary Teachers Association (the most important organization of clerics affiliated with the regime) are planning to...
IRAN LOOKING FOR NEW PARTNERS INSTEAD OF RUSSIA? PanARMENIAN.Net 18.11.2009 19:34 GMT+04:00 /PanARMENIAN.Net/ Fawning before Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei could learn from the Turkish leader balancing his...
Separating Iran-US talks from the nuclear issue would drive engagement on other key topics such as Iraq or Afghanistan As Iran continues to play hide and seek in its response to a nuclear deal supposedly agreed in Vienna, the...
A list of the 500 'most influential' Muslims in the world has left me confused, and not just because my name isn't there I was in Cairo International Airport earlier this week, scrolling through Facebook to see what my friends...
Since July 17, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who heads the Expediency Council and the Assembly of Experts, and serves as one of Tehran's Friday prayer leaders, has refused to attend the sermons. His absence as Tehran's Friday...