Iran Liberalism

Political rivalry among Irans various factions is nothing new. Ever since the 1979 revolution and particularly after former President Mohammad Khatamis unexpected electoral victory in 1997, moderate officialsincluding reformists and centrists now associated w…

Make Believe, in the adjoining gallery, invites reality into the picture. The contemporary photography exhibition plays with viewers frequent and increasingly wrong-headed tendency to assume photographs represent the real world. In this show, elaborately stag…

Iran Press TV Wed Aug 7, 2019 01:42PM The chief commander of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has warned that any act of aggression against the country's territory will be met with a firm response, stressing that the security of borders is a re…

For 1999 week, our film writers carefully compiled and voted on a list of the 25 best films of the year. But even a list of 25 isnt long enough to capture everyones favorite film from such a seminal year. So we asked our staff and contributors: What film sho…

Reuters In the short run, at least, President Donald Trumps beef with Iran has more to do with its aggressive, destabilizing foreign policy in the Middle East than with its nuclear program, which, experts agree, is years away from producing even a single nuc…

Black banners on the streets, crying men in dark clothing beating their bodies, somber parades, orators exhorting crowds to wail at the horrors the Prophet Muhammad's grandson suffered before being killed some 1,400 years ago. Iranian Health Minister Saeed N…

Phil Penman for The New York Review of BooksKian Tajbakhsh, New York City, July 25, 2019 More than a decade ago in Evin Prison, one of the darkest corners of the Islamic Republic of Iran, there came a moment when Kian Tajbakhsh had to decide whether to place…

The two most pressing issues on newly appointed UK Prime Minister Boris Johnsons plate right now are Brexit and Iran. Will the UK leave the EU on October 31st regardless of whether they have a new deal, as he has stated previously? Will he choose diplomacy wi…

by Matt Zoller Seitz July 26, 2019   |   Print PageTweet Like a lot of American movie fans, my first exposure to the work of the great Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami came through the writings of my friend Godfrey Cheshire, a veteran critic and film p…

Award-winning Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof has been sentenced to one year in prison after being convicted of "spreading propaganda" against the Islamic republic, a charge that is often brought against intellectuals and critics of the Iranian establishm…