Iran
Iranian cinema takes on the big social issues
Iranian actress Baran Kosari is one of her country’s best known young actresses. She was active in the Green Movement......
Iranian author tells story of torture and betrayal
Dr Kooshyar Karimi is an Irannian Jew whose life reads like a thriller. Kidnapped by the Iranian intelligence, tortured and......
Will Iran join the Arab Spring?
Iran has a troubled history with elections in modern times, with the 2009 election resulting in a bloody crackdown on......
Political refugees hit home
Since the mid 1980s, Camp Ashraf in Iraq has been home to a group of Iranian political exiles. Known as......
Is Iran producing nuclear weapons?
There’s urgent talk today of financial sanctions against Iran after a weapons inspectors’ report found strong evidence of a clandestine......
Iranian actress gets the lash
90 lashes and a year in jail – that’s the sentence that was handed down to Iranian actress Marzeih Vafa......
Environmental activism in a repressive state: Iranians try to save a lake
Environmentalists in Iran are coming up against fierce government clampdowns as they fight to raise the profile of a shrinking......
The First Iranian Film Festival in Australia
Iranian films have been winning internationally acclaimed awards for more than a decade, but in Australia little is known about......
Iranian protestors inspired by Egypt
While US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton praised the protesters on the streets of Iran, and claim that they have......
World outrage can’t stop death by stoning
Any day now Iranian woman Sakineh Ashtiani will be taken from her gaol cell, wrapped in a white shroud, buried......