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Iran has once again shocked the world by its decision to imprison and ban renowned film director Jafar Panahi for making films which project political, religious realities and gender divides existing in Iran. Jafar Panahi has been sentenced to six years of imprisonment and has been banned for 20 years from working on any projects and making movies. [...]

When Barack Obama was still a senator from Illinois, he declared that should he become the president of the United States, ‘he would be willing to hold direct talks, without preconditions, with the president of Iran.’ He will now get the chance to do just that this week when he meets the bombastic and re-elected president of the Islamic republic [...]

It took a national election process gone bad to reveal the many dimensions of Iran’s political strata. Given that there are personae in conservative, centrist, and liberal categories make the country’s political scene more combustible than dynamic. Because Iran is a secretive regime, not even all the facilities of Twitter can ever discern and fathom [...]

It was a ‘day of mourning’ in Iran to mourn the death of 8 protesters who lost their lives in the post election result widespread protest and violence. The election results which declared Ahmadinejad as re-elected President of Iran have led to countrywide unprecedented protests. In fact thousands of protesters are out on the streets demanding re [...]

It’s been less than a week since the general elections came to a conclusion amid increasing controversies and allegations of a rigged poll. Iranian hardliner President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad got re-elected and has become even more firm on his decision to make Iran a nuclear state. Many experts believe that Iran simply wishes to use their ‘nuclear [...]

In a top security trilateral summit in Tehran that Iran hosted for the presidents of Afghanistan and Pakistan, Hamid Karzai and Asif Zardari, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that while foreign troops are present in their region under the pretext of security, they have not been able to secure or assist the region’s economic and political development. What [...]

Aware of the Iranian determination to enrich enough uranium to produce the country’s own atomic bomb, Barack Obama’s Nowruz video is an unprecedented move to offer dialogue with a nation that the US has been having difficult relations with. Taking advantage of the celebrations of the traditional Persian New Year, the US president made a display [...]

President Ahmadinejad of Iran has demanded an apology from US president Barack Obama for the “crimes” committed by George W. Bush against the Iranian people. Obama seems to be caught between two controversial names that noisily figured in the international political scene in 2008. Must Obama be expected to clean up the tracks of his swaggering [...]