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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.
By Aluf Benn
February 7, 2002
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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.
By Anthony York
January 30, 2002
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Worried about a possible thaw between Washington and Iran, Sharon warns that the Islamic regime poses an urgent threat to Israel.
By Aluf Benn
January 28, 2002
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Is he a cog in a vast wheel of state-sponsored terrorism -- or a new breed of freelance evil genius?
By Laura Miller
November 1, 2001
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As war looms over Afghanistan, relief agencies are racing to stave off mass starvation -- inside and outside the ravaged country.
By Anthony York
October 5, 2001
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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.
By Max Garrone and Anthony York
October 1, 2001
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Why has President Bush cut funding to combat nuclear proliferation in Russia, and will Congress be able to bring it back?
By Fiona Morgan
May 16, 2001
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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.
By Stephanie Zacharek
April 20, 2001
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Iranian mountain police are busting up love on the slopes.
By Jack Boulware
March 9, 2001
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How religious hard-liners sabotaged reforms in Iran and earned the spite of their people.
By Ben Barber
January 11, 2001
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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.
By Hadani Ditmars
September 18, 2000
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President Clinton shakes Fidel Castro's hand and sits in on a speech by Iran's president at the organization's P.R. bonanza.
By Ian Williams
September 8, 2000
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A judge in Iran, thinking a man is flirting with the judge's wife, arrests him and sets off a melee.
By Jack Boulware
August 4, 2000
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The government now offers insurance for the valuable beasts.
By J.A. Getzlaff
May 15, 2000
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Salon's coverage of the elections in Iran, the reform movement and the evolution of culture under the mullahs.
February 24, 2000
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Iran's strict laws have created two cultures: The official and the real.
By Vivienne Walt
February 24, 2000
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Undaunted by jail, dissident journalists have fueled the nation's hunger for reform.
By Flore de Preneuf
February 22, 2000
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The intellectual pastime is the latest symbol in the struggle between the country's democratic reformers and Islamic clerics.
By Flore de Preneuf
February 18, 2000
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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?
By Vivienne Walt
February 18, 2000
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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.
By Vivienne Walt
February 18, 2000
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The author of "And the Sea Is Never Full" discusses his work, the Middle East, Rwanda and his friend Primo Levi.
By Jill Priluck
January 5, 2000
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Make men deal with birth control; race, music and Macy Gray; Lycos should run "Jews for Jesus" ads.
Letters to the Editor
August 18, 1999
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Encountering Iran on the cusp of change.
By Jeff Greenwald
August 11, 1999
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Our eclipse correspondent witnesses ancient treasures and a modern miracle in Iran.
By Jeff Greenwald
August 11, 1999
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Did that gesture mean he wanted to slit my throat? Or that Iran was slitting its own?
By Mark Mordue
July 24, 1999