Photo: Adrian Brune

‘Perseverance is the only way’

Anoosheh Ashoori, who spent more than four years arbitrarily imprisoned in Iran, speaks to Maxine Betteridge-Moes about his experiences in the notorious Evin prison.

Buy this magazine

NI 552 - Disinformation - November, 2024
Virtual Cages

Virtual Cages

As Iran tightens its grip on internet censorship, citizens face growing challenges in accessing the outside world. Rebecca Ruth Gould reports.

Buy this magazine

NI 552 - Disinformation - November, 2024
Photo: Mahshad Jalalian

Southern Exposure: Mahshad Jalalian

Highlighting the work of artists and photographers from the Majority World.

Buy this magazine

NI 545 - Decolonize now - September, 2023
Rapper Hichkas is surrounded by people wearing photos of victims of the regime, as he speaks at a protest to commemorate ‘Bloody November’ in The Hague, the Netherlands, on 19 November 2022.Photo: Sopa Images Limited/Alamy

‘I am not going to stay quiet’

Rap is a genre intertwined with politics, but the political courage of Iran’s rappers takes some beating, Lorraine Mallinder finds.

Buy this magazine

NI 543 - Loneliness - May, 2023
Borderlines

Borderlines

Stuck in limbo, by Amy Hall.

Buy this magazine

NI 541 - The cost of living crisis - January, 2023
Crypto-mining surge

Crypto-mining surge

The summer of 2021 in Iran was marked by frequent, dangerous power outages.

Buy this magazine

NI 535 - Romani lives matter - January, 2022
Sanam Naraghi-Anderlini (bottom, centre, in white top) with women peace-makers from conflict zones from around the world at ICAN's 2018 Annual Forum in Sri LankaPhoto: ICAN

The Interview: Sanam Naraghi-Anderlini

Indefatigable Iranian gender activist Sanam Naraghi-Anderlini on why she will not give up on her life-long mission to get women peace-makers included at the negotiating table.

Buy this magazine

NI 531 - Vaccine equality - May, 2021
Iran's #metoo moment

Iran's #metoo moment

Iranian women are using the hashtag #tajavoz to call out sexual violence.

Buy this magazine

NI 528 - A caring economy - November, 2020
Photo: Jalal Sepehr

Southern Exposure: Jalal Sepehr

Iranian photographer Jalal Sepehr poses a Persian carpet dilemma.

Buy this magazine

NI 526 - The Kurds - betrayed again - 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.

Buy this magazine

NI 526 - The Kurds - betrayed again - July, 2020
Water bankruptcy looms in Iran

Water bankruptcy looms in Iran

Lydia Noon reports on an escalating crisis.

Read this article

NI 499 - African village - January, 2017

Open Window - Fashion

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

Read this article

NI 494 - Smiley-faced monopolists - 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.

Read this article

NI 491 - Last stand - Saving the world's forests - 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.

Buy this magazine

NI 490 - Blood brothers - Saudi Arabia and the West - 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.

Read this article

NI 484 - Capitalism is spinning out of control - 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.

Buy this magazine

NI 470 - Commodities - the pitfalls of resource wealth - March, 2014
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.

Buy this magazine

NI 460 - What has development done for me? - March, 2013

Articles in this category displayed as a table:

Article title From magazine Publication date
Disinformation November, 2024
Disinformation November, 2024
Decolonize now September, 2023
Loneliness May, 2023
The cost of living crisis January, 2023
The cost of living crisis January, 2023
Romani lives matter January, 2022
Vaccine equality May, 2021
A caring economy November, 2020
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
Back