s husband, Abbas Yazdanpanah Yazdi, disappeared in UAE just before 'he was due to start legal action against SFO' The wife of a UK businessman who went missing in Dubai has accused the Serious Fraud Office of providing Iranian prosecutors with detailed personal information about her husband, including the address from which she believes he was abducted. Atena Yazdi, the wife of Abbas Yazdanpanah Yazdi,...
Taxis in Iran afford passengers a degree of anonymity, paving the way for uninhibited conversations...and the unlikely stage for a new play ...
Barack Obama conducts his final press conference of 2013 at the White House on Friday ...
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Audra J Wolfe: Outer space is getting more and more crowded. Should the US and Europe be worried? Audra J Wolfe ...
Iranian experts increasingly concerned about Congress as draft of new sanctions bill, backed by Senate Democrats, leaks Paul Lewis ...
At nine, Iranian schoolgirls are handed a chador and ushered into public life... and its paradoxes ...
s landmark nuclear deal was tempered by continued bloodshed in Syria and the further unravelling of the Arab spring It is always hard to predict how historians will judge current events. But the rough draft for any future tally of the Middle East in 2013 must include the Geneva agreement on Iran's nuclear programme , the bloody and escalating war in Syria – and fading hopes for a happy end to the other...
t the Obama we'd watched during his first term being battered by the vagaries of a collapsing economy and an intransigent Republican opposition. This was Obama as we had known him in 2008: the young man with a spring in his step and unbounded confidence, the Obama of "Yes We Can!" He set out a robust agenda for his second term that would seal his legacy as a transformative president. He would...
s prisons at the beginning of this month, meaning that 2013 had the second highest total since the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) began its annual census 17 years ago. It is close to the record high of 232 the previous year. According to a special report by Elana Beiser, CPJ's editorial director, Turkey was the world's leading jailer of journalists for the second year running, followed closely...
Amir Reza Koohestani tackles issues of love and intimacy on stage in Tehran ...