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Articles about Iran, ordered by date. Open 'Iran' in the New Internationalist magazine app for Android or iOS mobile devices.

Photo: Jalal Sepehr

Southern Exposure: Jalal Sepehr

Iranian photographer Jalal Sepehr poses a Persian carpet dilemma.

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NI 526 - The Kurds - betrayed again - July, 2020
526 - July, 2020
Smuggling is necessary but dangerous work for these Kurdish boys. Many are killed every year by Iranian border patrols.Photo: Rahman Hassani/Alamy

Shoot first

No mercy for Iran’s mountain smugglers.

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NI 526 - The Kurds - betrayed again - July, 2020
526 - July, 2020
The girls of Enghelab Street

The girls of Enghelab Street

Update from Iran by Lydia Noon.

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NI 511 - Humanitarianism under attack - April, 2018
511 - April, 2018
Water bankruptcy looms in Iran

Water bankruptcy looms in Iran

Lydia Noon reports on an escalating crisis.

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NI 499 - African village - January, 2017
499 - January, 2017

Open Window - Fashion

This month's guest cartoonist is Payam Boromand from Iran.

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NI 494 - Smiley-faced monopolists - July, 2016
494 - July, 2016
New app could help Iranians avoid morality police

New app could help Iranians avoid morality police

Hazel Healy reports on an innovation that could help women in Iran.

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NI 491 - Last stand - Saving the world's forests - April, 2016
491 - April, 2016
A volley of protest 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.

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NI 490 - Blood brothers - Saudi Arabia and the West - March, 2016
490 - March, 2016
Photo: Monir Tag

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.

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NI 484 - Capitalism is spinning out of control - July, 2015
484 - July, 2015
A traditional teahouse in Isfahan; jeans sellers in Isfahan; a street scene in Jolfa, East Azerbaijan province; women picnicking by the roadside in Shiraz (see main text); selling fish in Kermanshah.Photos (top): Patricia White / Alamy; (bottom left to right): HL Tam; Misha Kally; cordelia_persen; Ensie & Matthias; all under a CC licence.

Country Profile: Iran

The facts, figures and images of Iran.

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NI 470 - Commodities - the pitfalls of resource wealth - March, 2014
470 - March, 2014
Introducing Hassan Rouhani

Introducing Hassan Rouhani

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NI 465 - How the war on pirates became big business - September, 2013
465 - September, 2013
Where are they now? Noushin Ahmadi Khorasani Arash Ashoorinia

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.

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NI 460 - What has development done for me? - March, 2013
460 - March, 2013
Like-minded souls in Salt of This Sea.

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.

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NI 446 - Nature's defenders - October, 2011
446 - October, 2011
When the US is involved in, say, Iraq or Afghanistan, that's called ‘stabilization’. If Iran tries to increase its influence, that's destabilization.Mohammed Ameen/Reuters

New book by Noam Chomsky

Beware Americans talking ‘stability’, warns Noam Chomsky.

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NI 441 - China - makers of the miracle - April, 2011
441 - April, 2011
Interview with Parvin Ardalan Jenny Cleveson

Interview with Parvin Ardalan

Interview with Parvin Ardalan who is at the heart of the struggle for women's rights in Iran.

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NI 440 - Up in arms - March, 2011
440 - March, 2011
Left: 1920s Iraqi trans singer Masoud al Amaratly. Right: When Ali’s friend sent him this photo of them at a Baghdad disco in the late 1980s, he scratched out Ali’s face to protect him.

From the edge

A gay Iraqi, a Jewish Iranian and a Saudi feminist tell their stories

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NI 426 - Islam in power - October, 2009
426 - October, 2009

Articles in this category displayed as a table:

Article title From magazine Publication date
The Kurds - betrayed again July, 2020
The Kurds - betrayed again July, 2020
Humanitarianism under attack April, 2018
African village January, 2017
Smiley-faced monopolists July, 2016
Last stand - Saving the world's forests April, 2016
Blood brothers - Saudi Arabia and the West March, 2016
Capitalism is spinning out of control July, 2015
Commodities - the pitfalls of resource wealth March, 2014
How the war on pirates became big business September, 2013
What has development done for me? March, 2013
Nature's defenders October, 2011
China - makers of the miracle April, 2011
Up in arms March, 2011
Islam in power October, 2009
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