Iran

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  • Ariel's unlikely ally

    When hard-line Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon got in political trouble on the eve of his trip to Washington, who did he turn to? Yasser Arafat.
  • A wider war?

    Bush rattles his saber at Iraq in his State of the Union speech; Dems applaud the terror war -- for now -- but prepare to brawl over domestic issues.
  • Israel turns up the heat on Iran

    Worried about a possible thaw between Washington and Iran, Sharon warns that the Islamic regime poses an urgent threat to Israel.
  • Who is Osama bin Laden?

    Is he a cog in a vast wheel of state-sponsored terrorism -- or a new breed of freelance evil genius?
  • Preparing for the worst

    As war looms over Afghanistan, relief agencies are racing to stave off mass starvation -- inside and outside the ravaged country.
  • The Iran card?

    The complex nation whose leader once called America "the Great Satan" -- and whose people cheer our soccer teams -- may play an increasingly important role in American strategic planning.
  • "A dangerous step backwards"

    Why has President Bush cut funding to combat nuclear proliferation in Russia, and will Congress be able to bring it back?
  • "The Circle"

    In Tehran, it's frowned upon for women to smoke in public or even walk alone on the street. A beautiful Iranian film tells their story.
  • Sex patrol

    Iranian mountain police are busting up love on the slopes.
  • Shutting down the Tehran Spring

    How religious hard-liners sabotaged reforms in Iran and earned the spite of their people.
  • Let Googoosh sing

    For over two decades, Iran's reigning queen of pop has been strictly forbidden to perform. Now she's got a passport, a string of sold-out U.S. stadiums and an angry government back home.
  • The U.N.'s millennium bash

    President Clinton shakes Fidel Castro's hand and sits in on a speech by Iran's president at the organization's P.R. bonanza.
  • "Flirting" grocer causes riot

    A judge in Iran, thinking a man is flirting with the judge's wife, arrests him and sets off a melee.
  • Iran backs its camels with cash

    The government now offers insurance for the valuable beasts.
  • Iran on the cusp of change

    Salon's coverage of the elections in Iran, the reform movement and the evolution of culture under the mullahs.
  • Persian pop vs. the revolution

    Iran's strict laws have created two cultures: The official and the real.
  • Iran votes for change

    Undaunted by jail, dissident journalists have fueled the nation's hunger for reform.
  • Iran's chess war

    The intellectual pastime is the latest symbol in the struggle between the country's democratic reformers and Islamic clerics.
  • Iran's revolution may be in jeopardy

    Will the overwhelming number of young voters tip the scales in the elections? Or will their apathy prove a greater threat to reformers than the mullahs?
  • "An avalanche is coming!"

    As Iranians surge to the polls, a new generation of liberal reformers is expected to be swept into office. But it's not yet time to declare the mullahs powerless.
  • A conversation with Elie Wiesel

    The author of "And the Sea Is Never Full" discusses his work, the Middle East, Rwanda and his friend Primo Levi.
  • Letters to the Editor

    Make men deal with birth control; race, music and Macy Gray; Lycos should run "Jews for Jesus" ads.
  • Total eclipse

    Encountering Iran on the cusp of change.
  • Rendezvous of the sun and the moon

    Our eclipse correspondent witnesses ancient treasures and a modern miracle in Iran.
  • Disturbing encounters in Iran

    Did that gesture mean he wanted to slit my throat? Or that Iran was slitting its own?
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