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  • The portrait of a nurse in a protective suit is projected onto the Azadi monument in Tehran.
    Nurses on strike in Iran

    "Strikers feel they have nothing left to lose"

    In Iran, nurses are on strike to protest miserable living standards and stressful working conditions. Desperation is driving many abroad, and some to suicide.

  • An Iranian pro-government supporter woman holds an anti-Israel poster on Palestine Street in downtown Tehran on 14 April 2024
    Israel, the USA and the Islamic Republic

    Understanding Iran's "offensive-defensive" strategy

    April 2024 not only saw Iran's unprecedented direct assault on Israel but also a violent crackdown on women in Iran refusing to wear the hijab. So what is behind Tehran's conflicting sense of hubris and insecurity?

  • Dancing dervishes from the Mevlana Order
    750th anniversary of Rumi's death – Part 6

    Academic research and spiritual exploration

    No Islamic mystic in the past two centuries has touched literary figures and academics in both East and West as much as Rumi. A look at the history of research into this hugely influential spiritual teacher

  • A Baloch man points to where the Iranian army carried out an airstrike against alleged separatists in Pakistan
    Iran-Pakistan tensions

    What was behind the Balochistan strikes?

    Tit-for-tat attacks between neighbours Iran and Pakistan are linked to separatists fighting for independence of the mineral-rich Balochistan region that spans their borders

  • One year after Mahsa Amini died in police custody, sparking nationwide protests, the Iranian regime has quashed all displays of public discontent. But the 2022 protest movement was not a lost cause and its impact on Iranian history cannot be undermined
    Mahsa Amini: one year on

    Tehran has lost the battle for credibility

    One year after Mahsa Amini died in police custody, sparking nationwide protests, the Iranian regime has quashed all displays of public discontent. But the 2022 protest movement was not a lost cause and its impact on Iranian history cannot be undermined, writes Leela Jacinto

  • 'Maximum pressure' gears up

    Protests drive Iran's Saudi deal

    On 10 March 2023, the world woke up to the breaking news that Middle East rivals Iran and Saudi Arabia had forged a deal to restore diplomatic relations within two months and refrain from interfering in each other's domestic affairs. Ali Fathollah-Nejad and Amin Naeni examine Iran's motivations

  • World-famous Iranian film director Jafar Panahi has been incarcerated for several months, even though Iran's Supreme Court overturned the verdict against him. Now, he has gone on hunger strike in protest.
    Iran protests

    Iranian film director Jafar Panahi released following hunger strike

    World-famous Iranian film director Jafar Panahi has been released from Tehran's notorious Evin prison after a hunger strike. By Stuart Braun

  • "Public discontent has been piling up for a long time," says Kaviani. "But now something new is taking place. We used to dismiss the younger generation as 'apolitical' and a bit 'superficial', concerned more about the virtual reality of chat platforms, Instagram, Tik Tok, or music on Spotify. We failed to realise that this generation, too, wants the chance to live a better life."
    Iran protests

    "Change that goes beyond the moment"

    The protests in Iran have entered their third week with no indication that Tehran is prepared to address the demands that are echoing through the streets. Radio Farda’s Hannah Kaviani spoke to Erik Siegl for Qantara.de

  • Mahsa’s violent death has achieved something no-one has been able to do for 43 years: it has united almost the entire Iranian people in mourning  – and against the inhumane regime.
    Mahsa Amini's death

    Iranians unite in rage and mourning

    The violent death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini has achieved something the entire opposition has failed to do during the 43-year rule of the ayatollahs in Iran: almost the entire Iranian people are united on one issue, only the regime supporters are divided. By Parvin Irani

  • Almost all of the contributions in the first two editions of dort feature strong, surreal elements, immediately classifiable as weird fiction, a genre thriving in the U.S. today.
    Young Persian fiction

    "Dort": weird fiction fresh from Iran

    Literature by young Iranian authors is rare in German. Publisher and translator Arash Alborz aims to change this with his literary magazine, 'dort'. Do the first two editions live up to that promise? Gerrit Wustmann took a look for Qantara.de

  • Working together against Western sanctions, not being rivals on the world oil market and shaping long-term military cooperation: this is how Russia envisions their joint strategy, and Iran's most powerful man, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is in agreement.
    Iran and Russia

    The Islamic Republic surrenders to Putin

    Russia is leaving no stone unturned in its attempts to make the Islamic Republic an ally in the war against Ukraine. Fortunately for Vladimir Putin, the mullahs in Tehran are ready to subjugate themselves to shore up their own position at home. By Ali Sadrzadeh

  • Iranian economy

    The causes of Iran's economic woes

    Talks to salvage the 2015 Iranian nuclear deal have entered their eighth round in Vienna. Even if a deal is struck and some of the sanctions are lifted, the state of the Iranian economy is such that there can be little hope that any relief provided by a revived agreement will trickle down to the general population. By Ali Fathollah-Nejad

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