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How much change can reformist President-elect Masoud Pezeshkian bring to Iran?

July 11, 2024Politics

Masoud Pezeshkian, a reformist, has won Iran’s presidential election. Host Marco Werman speaks with Sina Toossi, a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy, about what this means for politics in Iran, as well as predictions for how the new president will govern alongside Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

US urges restraint and deescalation as Israel and Iran trade attacks

April 19, 2024Israel-Hamas war

19-year-old Amir Darabi at Berklee College of Music in Boston.

An Iranian piano prodigy. A big dream. And an arduous visa process.

September 26, 2017Music

Seven year old Teija's father is stuck in Iran due to the travel ban. She holds a sign during a protest at Los Angeles International Airport.

Two brothers, one in Iran and another in California, say the US travel ban has thrown their family for a loop

January 31, 2017Conflict

Negin Farsad's new book is called "How To Make White People Laugh."

This Iranian American comic is facing down some of her toughest critics: Fellow Muslims

June 2, 2016Books

Women gaze at jewelery displayed at an international fair in Tehran.

Crystal meth, skinny jeans and underground bloggers — it’s the Iran you never see

September 4, 2014Books

Iranian-British author Ramita Navai says Iran’s capital Tehran is full of people who are leading double lives. On the outside, they conform. On the inside, they are true to themselves. She tells their stories in her novel, City of Lies: Love, Sex, Death and the search for Truth in Tehran.

Iranian poet Simin Behbahani speaks at the "Yes to peace, No to war" conference in Tehran on November 19, 2007.

Remembering a fearless poet known as ‘Iran’s Lioness’

August 19, 2014Culture

Simin Behbahani was a beloved Iranian poet who earned the nickname “Lioness” for her powerful verse. US President Barack Obama recited one of her poems in his 2011 message to the Iranian people.

The US and Iran part I – the 1953 coup

January 15, 2014Global Politics

In Part One, The World’s Jeb Sharp has a look at how Washington changed the destiny of another country.

Did he or didn’t he accept the Holocaust? You decide

September 26, 2013Global Politics

Some say Iran’s president took a very symbolic step toward accepting the reality of the holocaust in an interview with CNN. Holocaust researcher Deborah Lipstadt doubts it.

Iranian-Jewish minority Member of Parliament, Siamak Moreh Sedgh, poses for a photograph in front of a banner for the 2012 parliamentary elections.

Why is Iran’s president traveling with his country’s one Jewish lawmaker?

September 25, 2013Global Politics

Iran reserves one seat in its parliament for a representative of its Jewish minority. And Iran’s only Jewish lawmaker has travelled to New York this week with the country’s president, Hassan Rouhani. Anchor Marco Werman talks with reporter Saeed Kamali Dehghan. He covers Iran for The Guardian.