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Bahram Beyzaie, Legendary Iranian Filmmaker and Playwright, Dies on His 87th Birthday
Bahram Beyzaie died on his 87th birthday in the U.S.; tributes recall his censored career, years of exile at Stanford, and a legacy that…
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Taraneh Alidoosti’s Body as Testimony: Refusing Compulsory Hijab in Iran’s Official Cinema
Pegah Ahangarani’s documentary shows Taraneh Alidoosti’s post-prison body as political testimony, and records her irreversible break with Iran’s official cinema under compulsory hijab. This…
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Radio Zamaneh: Twenty Years of Alternative Journalism
Twenty years on, Radio Zamaneh has endured through transformation, building alternative journalism rooted in culture and social struggle, amplifying marginalized voices beyond state control…
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Twenty Years of Radio Zamaneh: A Home for Unheard Voices
Twenty years on, Radio Zamaneh remains a community-centered, digitally rooted outlet amplifying marginalized voices, sustaining critical journalism beyond state and market pressures amid shifting…
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Workers March in Asaluyeh, the Beating Heart of Iran’s Energy Economy
For 18 weeks, precarious South Pars workers in Asaluyeh have marched against broken promises—exposing how Iran’s “energy heart” runs on exploited labour at the…
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Anxious Neighbours: Are Riyadh and Ankara Warning Tehran – or Shielding Themselves from the Next War?
Saudi and Turkish envoys rush to Tehran as Israel prepares for a new war paradigm, seeking to contain fallout from a possible confrontation with…
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Back to the Bloody Dawn of the 12-Day War: How is Iran Reading Israel Now?
Tehran now reads Israel and the US as preparing an existential war on the regime, abandons de-escalation, and shifts from managing tension to planning…
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Three Weeks of Fire in Hircani Forests: What Burned, What failed, What’s at stake
Wildfire in Elit’s Hircani forests exposes climate-stressed, human-caused fires, delayed and fragmented state response, and systemic lack of prevention that threatens an ancient UNESCO-listed…
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Alarming Rise in Femicide Disguised as “Family Violence” in Iran: Two Shocking Murders in Ajabshir and Urmia
Domestic violence in Iran has reached a crisis point. Within 48 hours, two horrific family murders in Ajabshir and Urmia – from the killing…
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Masoud Pezeshkian’s Rumoured Resignation and Iran’s Fragmented Power System
Repeated rumours of President Pezeshkian’s resignation serve rival power islands, amplified by political bloggers, in a fragmented system where real authority lies beyond the…
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Bread or Missiles? The State’s Official Policy in a Year of Turmoil
Iran’s leadership prioritizes missile power over basic welfare, pouring scarce resources into the military amid inflation, poverty, drought and collapse, leaving governance paralyzed while…
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Isfahan in Crisis: When the Heart of Iran Runs Dry
Isfahan faces converging crises (vanishing water, land subsidence, air pollution, and a dying wetland), showing how unbalanced industrial growth can push Iran’s historic cities…