Science Diplomacy: Trading Frock Coats for Lab Coats
Vaughan Turekian is pushing an unusual suggestion for how to engage Iran, a country America has had no formal relations with since 1980. His idea is suddenly one of many on the topic, as foreign policy...
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Faith-based Language Key to Accessing Fundamentalists’ Compassion
In the ongoing tension between the Islamic and Western worlds, religious fundamentalism is widely viewed as an obstacle to compromise — or even rational discussion. The contentious election in Iran...
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Iran: From Axis to Ally?
Tehran-born Iranian-American scholar Ray Takeyh, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, has testified several times in recent years before various U.S. Senate committees, emerging as one...
View ArticleIran 2009, Meet Ohio 2004
With violence and mass protests dominating media coverage in the aftermath of elections in Iran, relatively little ink addresses whether scientific evidence supports the idea that the election was in...
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Inside the Cyberwar for Iran’s Future
On Friday, June 12, Iran voted. On Monday, June 15, Tehran erupted. In the face of fast ballot counting that credited high levels of electoral support to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the dense urban centers...
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War With Iran? Stuxnet May Be First Cybersalvo
The last time a Middle Eastern government hostile to Israel came close to building a nuclear bomb, the Israelis reacted with a swift, clandestine air raid that destroyed the reactor in question (Saddam...
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Engaging Iran Through Vaccine Diplomacy
To counter Iran’s emerging nuclear threat, we might look back to a little-known but highly effective Cold War collaboration between the U.S. and Soviet Union that defused international tensions and led...
View ArticleIran’s Secret University for Baha’i: Global and Underground
Here’s how classes work: Holakou Rahmanian turns on his computer early in the morning or late at night. He goes to a website whose address is known only to students, faculty and administrators of his...
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The Ayatollah Drops by the Stem Cell Lab UPDATED!
“Ayatollah Khamenei visiting Royan Institute for Reproductive Biomedicine,” Instagram via @Khamenei_ir, the Iranian Supreme Leader’s Twitter feed. The Royan Institute is Iran’s center for stem cell...
View ArticleFirst They Came for the Bahá’í …
For a country trying to swim upstream against a torrent of international approbation, Iran makes some intriguing choices that burnish its reputation. Last month Angilee Shah explained how members of...
View ArticleIs America’s ‘Strategic Pivot’ Towards China Premature?
In the cover story of our inaugural issue back in April, we took note of the Obama administration’s strategic pivot towards Asia and the commensurate shift away from our entanglements in the Middle...
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Why Is Iran Running Out of Medicine?
Earlier this week, an earthquake in southern Iran knocked down at least 800 houses, killed dozens, and injured 900. Lax building codes meant the cement structures crumbled fast, trapping people inside....
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Datebook: What’s Happening in May and June—and Why It Matters
MAY 10 First 2013 Solar Eclipse “For millennia,” according to NASA, “solar eclipses have been interpreted as portents of doom by virtually every known civilization.” Today, hundreds of “eclipse...
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Next Steps in U.S.-Iran Diplomacy: Vaccines
September’s historic dialogue between President Obama and Iran’s President Rouhani together with calls to seek constructive engagement opens the door to a little known but powerful foreign policy...
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A Brief History of Modern Iran, Told Through Soccer
On November 29, 1997, Iran witnessed an unprecedented defiance of the Ayatollah’s diktats. Men and women—some of them without their hijabs—took to the streets of Tehran and reveled in drunken joy,...
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