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Remember the dead candle: Mirza Jahangir Khan Sur-e Esrafil
It was a Wednesday and the beginning of the summer of 1908. A 34-year-old journalist was dragged in chains to the “King’s Garden” in…
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Oil, a Coup d’Etat and the Enduring Legacy of Mohammad Mosaddeq
“Mosaddeq occupies a special place in the Iranian collective memory: he is widely regarded as a man of integrity and courage, a statesman who…