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  • Election campaign posters in Tehran
    Iran elections

    Why Tehran may announce a fake voter turnout

    Banned from the streets, the protests in Iran continue. This week's elections will reflect just how much – or how little – popular support the Islamic Republic still enjoys

  • 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

  • Calligraphy from the eighth century that reads "Ali is the vicegerent of God"
    Sunnis and Shias in Islam

    How the Sunni-Shia split shaped the Islamic world throughout history

    Toby Matthiesen's new book, "The Caliph and the Imam", explores both the origins of the Sunni-Shia divide, what the two branches of Islam have in common and how the split has shaped the Islamic world

  • Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis demonstrate in Baghdad in what was probably one of the largest pro-Palestinian rallies
    Palestinians in Iraq

    Between sympathy and rejection

    Palestinians living in Saddam Hussein's Iraq were courted until his overthrow in 2003, after which they suffered widespread harassment. Ever since the onset of the Israeli offensive in Gaza, however, Iraqis have been keen to show their solidarity

  • It was an Iraqi with Christian roots – Salwan Momeka – who staged the burning of the Koran in Stockholm last week. In doing so, he aimed to get even with his countrymen.
    Koran-burning in Sweden

    The Iraqi Christian turned radical

    It was an Iraqi with Christian roots – Salwan Momeka – who staged the burning of the Koran in Stockholm last week. In doing so, he wanted to get even with his countrymen. Birgit Svensson reports from Baghdad

  • Social media sensation: Tabatabaei posts regularly – to his more than 80,000 followers – heart-breaking stories of abused and neglected dogs that he has treated in his shelter. The many hundreds of comments from his young fans request rescue updates and send well wishes to the animals

    Iran: Defiant Shia cleric takes in stray dogs

  • Iran: Defiant Shia cleric takes in stray dogs

    It's rare these days for a turbaned cleric in Iran to attract a large following of adoring young fans on Instagram, but Sayed Mahdi Tabatabaei has done it by rescuing street dogs in defiance of a local taboo.

  • Every wearer of a turban in Iran is seen as a representative and symbol of the hated regime.
    Shia clerics in Iran

    "Save Islam" – or just the mullahs?

    Are the Shia clergy disappearing as a pillar of Iranian society, degenerating into a mere power apparatus? Nationwide attacks, vilification and the murder, or attempted murder, of mullahs are becoming more frequent. Every turban wearer is seen as representing and symbolising the hated regime. By Ali Sadrzadeh

  • Challenging one of the Islamic Republic's most identifiable symbols – the hijab – with some breathtaking, iconographic feminist art, Iran's activists have wrested ownership away from the clerics with regard to who represents the nation, defines its present and shapes its future.
    Iran protests

    What the Islamic Republic's propaganda tells us

    Challenging one of the Islamic Republic's most identifiable symbols – the hijab – with some breathtaking, iconographic feminist art, Iran's activists have wrested ownership away from the clerics with regard to who represents the nation, defines its present and shapes its future. Essay by Kevin L. Schwartz & Olmo Goelz

  • '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

  • 20 years after the U.S. invasion, Iraq is only just beginning to recover from the aftermath.
    20 years after the U.S. invasion

    Iraq's wounds are slow to heal

    20 years after the U.S. invasion, the country between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers is only just beginning to recover from the aftermath. But the road is paved with obstacles. Birgit Svensson reports from Iraq

  • As a young prosecutor in Tehran, Ebrahim Raisi sat on a "death committee" overseeing the execution of hundreds of political prisoners in the Iranian capital, rights groups say.
    Ebrahim Raisi

    Iran's 'death committee' president

    Iran's president Ebrahim Raisi is overseeing an unyielding crackdown. The current situation grimly echoes his role in a purge of political prisoners in 1988

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