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Outside August 2007 Josh Dean |
Powder Keg As you may have heard, they ski in Iran. As you may not have heard, the terrain is pretty sweet, there are dudes bouncing on the chairlifts, and the hills are alive with happy women in flowing robes. Can we make peace with this place immediately? |
Outside May 2010 Joshua Hammer |
A Mountain of Trouble When three young Americans were arrested by Iranian border guards last July after straying too far down a waterfall trail in Iraqi's Kurdistan peaks, the costs of their adventure travel got a lot higher. |
Reason October 2007 Michael J. Totten |
The Next Iranian Revolution How armed exiles are working to topple Tehran's Islamic Government. |
Reason February 2006 Michael Young |
Persian Letters Three personal accounts of modern Iran: Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America and American in Iran, by Azadeh Moaveni... Even After All This Time: A Story of Love, Revolution, and Leaving Iran, by Afschineh Latifi... etc. |
Salon.com January 11, 2001 Ben Barber |
Shutting down the Tehran Spring How religious hard-liners sabotaged reforms in Iran and earned the spite of their people... |
Parameters Summer 2007 Gawdat Bahgat |
Iran and the United States: The Emerging Security Paradigm in the Middle East It is time that those responsible for crafting the policies and strategies for the region understand that US and Iranian interests are not by definition mutually exclusive. |
Mother Jones May/Jun 2001 Camelia Entekhabi-Fard |
Behind the Veil Westerners see Iran's mandatory veil as a symbol of repression. But under cover of the hejab, Islamic women have gained more freedom than they -- or the fundamentalists -- could have imagined... |
Parameters Autumn 2004 Richard L. Russell |
Iran in Iraq's Shadow: Dealing with Tehran's Nuclear Weapons Bid The Iraq war is the backdrop for the evolving policy debate on Iran. Tehran might be tempted to harness the threat of nuclear weapons for leverage in the political-military struggle against the United States for power and influence in the Persian Gulf. |
Parameters Autumn 2007 Christopher Hemmer |
Responding to a Nuclear Iran What should American foreign policy be if current efforts to discourage Iran from developing nuclear weapons fail? |
Reason September 2004 Marc C. Johnson |
Chatroom Revolutionaries Iran's dissidents and exiles discover the Web and are sending encrypted and compressed documents via U.S.-based free e-mail accounts, a tactic also used by organized criminals, terrorists, spies, journalists, and even businessmen. |
BusinessWeek January 10, 2005 Stanley Reed |
Rule By Rigor Mortis "In the Rose Garden of Martyrs: A Memoir of Iran," Christopher de Bellaigue theorizes about an Iranian culture that places an unhealthy emphasis on death and martyrdom and defiance of outsiders. |
BusinessWeek May 24, 2004 Reed & Pirouz |
Iran: The Mideast's Model Economy? It's one of the strangest paradoxes in the Mideast. One goal of the U.S. invasion of Iraq was to turn Baghdad into a model regional economy. But could it be that Iran will wind up filling that role? |
Salon.com October 1, 2002 Charles Taylor |
"Not with anger ..." An international director stands up for Abbas Kiarostami, the Iranian master denied a visa for the New York Film Festival. |