Regions / Middle East / Iran
Articles about Iran, ordered by date. 
Water bankruptcy looms in Iran
Lydia Noon reports on an escalating crisis.
Open Window - Fashion
This month's guest cartoonist is Payam Boromand from Iran.
New app could help Iranians avoid morality police
Hazel Healy reports on an innovation that could help women in Iran.
A volley of protest in Iran
Human Rights Watch has thrown its weight behind a challenge to Iran’s ban on women watching volleyball matches. Kelsi Farrington reports.
Making waves: Masih Alinejad
Exiled Iranian journalist Masih Alinejad is using social media to challenge Iran’s compulsory hijab law. Lucinda Homa Gray meets her.
Where are they now? Noushin Ahmadi Khorasani
The Iranian women's rights activist on what she has been doing since she was featured in our March 2007 issue.
The silver screen behind the Spring
Feature films can tell us much about the cultural background to recent events in North Africa and the Middle East. Malcolm Lewis has been watching some of them.
New book by Noam Chomsky
Beware Americans talking ‘stability’, warns Noam Chomsky.
Interview with Parvin Ardalan
Interview with Parvin Ardalan who is at the heart of the struggle for women's rights in Iran.
From the edge
A gay Iraqi, a Jewish Iranian and a Saudi feminist tell their stories
Articles in this category displayed as a table:
| Article title | From magazine | Publication date |
|---|---|---|
| Water bankruptcy looms in Iran | African village | January, 2017 |
| Open Window - Fashion | Smiley-faced monopolists | July, 2016 |
| New app could help Iranians avoid morality police | Last stand - Saving the world's forests | April, 2016 |
| A volley of protest in Iran | Blood brothers - Saudi Arabia and the West | March, 2016 |
| Making waves: Masih Alinejad | Capitalism is spinning out of control | July, 2015 |
| Country Profile: Iran | Commodities - the pitfalls of resource wealth | March, 2014 |
| Introducing Hassan Rouhani | How the war on pirates became big business | September, 2013 |
| Where are they now? Noushin Ahmadi Khorasani | What has development done for me? | March, 2013 |
| The silver screen behind the Spring | Nature's defenders | October, 2011 |
| New book by Noam Chomsky | China - makers of the miracle | April, 2011 |
| Interview with Parvin Ardalan | Up in arms | March, 2011 |
| From the edge | Islam in power | October, 2009 |