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The Name is Not Daryay Khazar
I have seen so many Iranian people wrongly call the Caspian Sea; Daryay Khazar which bothers me very much. Recently I came across to a ... Full story
New Years Old
To the eighty million Iranians living in Iran, January 1st is simply known as yazdeye Dey or the 11th day of Dey. However to the ... Full story
Learning Farsi in Tehran
The school bell rang early one morning at the International Center for Persian Studies, the renowned go-to institution for foreigners wishing to learn Farsi in ... Full story
The US Drone: Iran's Potential Gift to RussiaAn erratic alliance viewed optimistically by an isolated regime
Iran claims to have forced down a sophisticated U.S. spy drone on December 4. Nine days later, President Obama formally asked for its return, a ... Full story
Guard General Killed in Blast Was Testing New Ballistic Missile
12:45 a.m., 29 Aban/November 20 In an interview with the newspaper Iran, which supports Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mohammad Tehrani Moghaddam -- brother of Major General Hassan ... Full story
Hidden Lives:Afghan Girls in Germany
When I was growing up as a teenager in Hamburg's Afghan diaspora, my father received a phone call out of the blue one day. It ... Full story
Who Will Rule the Road? New money, old money, imported values, ubiquitous guns -- the Afghan boulevard.
Stuck in a traffic jam in Kabul one evening this summer, I took a brief survey of the cars around and noticed that they neatly ... Full story
Iran After the Iraq Pullout
The U.S. announcement that virtually all American troops would be out of Iraq by December 31 has led to a wave of recriminations that the ... Full story
The Iran Plot May Be Just That
The bizarre case of Mansour Arbabsiar leaves plenty of room to be skeptical about its true nature. That doesn't mean, however, that analysts and Iran ... Full story
'A Media All on His Own': Ahmadinejad's Twilight Stand
The arrival of Iran's president the last few Septembers in New York has had the feel of the circus coming to town. High-profile correspondents from ... Full story
Learning Farsi in Tehran
The school bell rang early one morning at the International Center for Persian Studies, the renowned go-to institution for foreigners wishing to learn Farsi in ... Full story