Regions / Middle East / Iran
Articles about Iran, ordered by date. 
Crypto-mining surge
The summer of 2021 in Iran was marked by frequent, dangerous power outages.
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.
Iran's #metoo moment
Iranian women are using the hashtag #tajavoz to call out sexual violence.
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
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