Tehran Bureau

An eyewitness recalls the 1999 events that made clear the regime would “use any level of violence to preserve itself,” including Ahmadinejad’s role.

The Kooy-e Daneshgah protests of 1999 were among the largest instances of Iranian student activism since the 1979 Revolution and are widely regarded as a turning point, the first in what built i...

The southern coast provides oil, gas, ports, and strategic depth, while remaining poor. Tehran pledged to transform it with a new maritime economy.

Nearly half a century ago, just a year after the Revolution, a young Iranian engineer arrived in the port city of Chabahar to work on what was supposed to be one of the country’s great strategic ...

Ali Khamenei’s profligate six-day funeral spotlights both new rifts in the IRI base and the seeming rise of the pro-regime “bihejab” girl.

The young woman cradles a framed photograph of Ali Khamenei against her heart as she raises her right hand, daubed blood-red. She stands on Enghelab Street just outside the University of Tehran campus, pe...