A contest of domestic elites with differing interests and strategic visions is a crucial, neglected element pervading Tehran's nuclear diplomacy.
Iranian women have played an active role in social and educational life since the revolution of 1979. There are now signs of a conservative backlash against their presence, says Sanam Vakil.
The women’s movement for gender equality in Iran has for thirty years been at the heart of wider political struggles in the Islamic Republic. Sanam Vakil tracks three major phases in its development and identifies the ingredients of a fourth.
The Iranian state has won a round in the battle against the opposition "green movement". But the war of survival continues, says Sanam Vakil.
The tenth presidential election in the Islamic Republic of Iran, whose first round is held on 12 June 2009, promises to be a decisive event in the country's
These are tense times in Tehran. In the past weeks, the Islamic Republic of Iran has repeatedly made global headlines amid an atmosphere of escalating unsettlement.
Even in the short
We should be careful not to misconstrue the recent snowballing criticisms mounting against Iranian President Mahmood Ahmadinejad. Indeed in the months gone by, such criticism has been escalating. Not only
A week which began with a long-awaited, much-hyped meeting between senior officials from the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States of America is ending with reports of the
Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei issued a particularly forceful nowruz (Persian new year) message on 21 March 2007, stating: "In case they intend to use force,
Washington's new strategy in Iraq is being accompanied by an escalation of its rhetoric against the theocratic regime in Tehran over the latter's role in Iraq.
