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Review of Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet, Heroes to Hostages America and Iran, 1800–1988 (Cambridge U.P., 2023) When the subject of Iran and …

  Since 1980, Reza Pahlavi, the son of the former ousted dictator of Iran, who has been enjoying a luxurious life in the United States with the wealth his

What's happening in Iran right now is unprecedented. But the Iranian people's struggle for gender equality began generations before the death of 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian woman Mahsa Amini, also known by her Kurdish name, Jina Amini. The successes of this struggle, as well as its setbacks and horrors, are well-documented, but often misunderstood. Scholar Arzoo Osanloo argues that women have been at the center of Iran's century-long fight for freedom and self-determination. It's a historical thread that goes all the way back to Iran's Constitutional Revolution in the early 20th century: A com...

As Iran enters a new century, many old challenges remain A student visiting the Museum of Historical Cars on a field trip looks at a carriage (R) used by Qajar dynasty King Nasser al-Din Shah and the coronation carriage of King Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, in Tehran March 10, 2011. The carriages were both built in Austria and are housed at the museum which opened in 2001 and has a collection of rare antique cars belonging to the former royal families of Iran and private collections. REUTERS/Caren Firouz For Iranians, the upcoming spring solstice marks not just a new year, Nowruz, but also the be...

Book World: America and Iran, from fascination to antagonism Ray Takeyh, The Washington Post Feb. 26, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail "America and Iran: A History, 1720 to the Present" By John Ghazvinian - - - The story of America's relations with Iran needs a re-examination. Why have these two nations nurtured such obsessive antagonism toward each other? Former journalist John Ghazvinian steps into the charged arena with a doorstop of a book that promises to answer the question. But after some brassy assertions in the preface, Ghazvinian's uneven and often tendentious account only compounds the c...