Iran articles

Southern Exposure: Mahshad Jalalian

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

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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.

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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.

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Southern Exposure: Jalal Sepehr

Iranian photographer Jalal Sepehr poses a Persian carpet dilemma.

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Smuggling is necessary but dangerous work for these Kurdish boys. Many are killed every year by Iranian border patrols.Photo: Rahman Hassani/Alamy

Water bankruptcy looms in Iran

Lydia Noon reports on an escalating crisis.

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New app could help Iranians avoid morality police

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

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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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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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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

Article title	From magazine	Publication date
Southern Exposure: Mahshad Jalalian	Decolonize now	September, 2023
‘I am not going to stay quiet’	Loneliness	May, 2023
Borderlines	The cost of living crisis	January, 2023
Revolution song	The cost of living crisis	January, 2023
Crypto-mining surge	Romani lives matter	January, 2022
The Interview: Sanam Naraghi-Anderlini	Vaccine equality	May, 2021
Iran's #metoo moment	A caring economy	November, 2020
Southern Exposure: Jalal Sepehr	The Kurds - betrayed again	July, 2020
Shoot first	The Kurds - betrayed again	July, 2020
The girls of Enghelab Street	Humanitarianism under attack	April, 2018
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

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Regions / Middle East / Iran

Articles about Iran, ordered by date.

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

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

Stuck in limbo, by Amy Hall.

Report from Iran.

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

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.

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

Iranian photographer Jalal Sepehr poses a Persian carpet dilemma.

No mercy for Iran’s mountain smugglers.

Update from Iran by Lydia Noon.

Lydia Noon reports on an escalating crisis.

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

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

Human Rights Watch has thrown its weight behind a challenge to Iran’s ban on women watching volleyball matches. Kelsi Farrington reports.

Exiled Iranian journalist Masih Alinejad is using social media to challenge Iran’s compulsory hijab law. Lucinda Homa Gray meets her.

The facts, figures and images of Iran.

The Iranian women's rights activist on what she has been doing since she was featured in our March 2007 issue.

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.

Beware Americans talking ‘stability’, warns Noam Chomsky.

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