| Monarchy 1996-2000
OPINION
Consider
the facts
Prognosis for a return of kings
By Manoutchehr M. Eskandari-Qajar
HISTORY
Man
zendaani meeshavam, pas hastam
When idealism turns to perpetual militancy
By Nima Khoshkish
OPINION
Don't
get left behind
The reform process is already happening
By By John Mohammadi
OPINION
Cannot
win
Constitution leaves no room for maneuver
By Shahriar Zangeneh
PEOPLE
Watching
history go by
Trans-Siberian to Vladivostok
By Amir Khosrow Sheibany
OPINION
The
R-word
Youth increasingly opting for radical surgery to cure the intractable
ills of the nation
By Shahriar Zangeneh
OPINION
We
had hope
Khomeini promised clerics would return to theological schools
By Sam Miller
OPINION
Correction
Correcting the mistake of the older generation
By Ahmad Javan
OPINION
Shotormorgh
Dynasty
When they have to fly, they're "shotor"; when they
have to carry loads, they're "morgh"
By Hajmirzakhan
OPINION
Cultural
continuity
To keep a culture one needs to preserve its traditions
By A. R. Begli Beigie
OPINION
President
Pahlavi
Forget the monarchy
By Ghafour Mirzaei
HISTORY
State
of paralysis
Tudeh factionalism and the 1953 coup
By Maziar Behrooz
OPINION
Dream
on
Monarchists and international terrorism
By Mohammad Sahimi
OPINION
I
had a dream
How Harvard failed me
October 26, 2001
OPINION
His
royal lowness
Why should we go from one aqazadeh system to another?
By Naghmeh Sohrabi
PEOPLE
Top
of my lungs
Childhood story
By Yasaman J
OPINION
Freedom,
freedom and freedom
Let's hope domestic American values will be projected in the
Middle East
By Shahriar Zangeneh
OPINION
The
rest is history
When things started to become sacred
By A. R. Begli Beigie
OPINION
Khaaneh
takaaniye fekri
Monarchists and gay rights
By Nassim
RIGHTS
Alive
and kicking
Victim meets torturer
By Fariba Amini
OPINION
No
heroes
Democracy and democratization
By Behrouz Enayati
OPINION
Making
light of pain
Being vicious beyond good and evil
By Amir
OPINION
Glamorous
indeed
What to do with fame and fortune
By Tala Dowlatshahi
SATIRE
Bonapartism
Good or bad for Iran?
By Mohandes
OPINION
Ganji's
Paine
Following Paine's footsteps in the fight for democracy
By Farshid Bakhshi
OPINION
End
of the beginning
Two years after the student revolt
By Shahriar Zangeneh
OPINION
Slowly
but surely
Reform or revolution?
By Mehdi Amini
OPINION
Diana
not
Serious soul-searching about our collective identity crises
By Setareh Sabety
SATIRE
Leila Pahlavi beh zabaan saadeh
Response to critics
By Hadi Khorsandi
SATIRE
Gozaaresh: Leila Pahlavi
Funeral
By Hadi Khorsandi
FUNERAL
Crown
of lilies
I walked up to the open grave and threw my white rose
By Cyrus Kadivar
FUNERAL
Leila's
last ride
Death of a princess
By Mina Pejman
OPINION
A
voice, nevertheless
Voting to say No to Khatami's opponents
By Najmeh Fakhraie
OPINION
Boycott
or perish
There is bad news ahead unless we unite
By Amir Khosrow Sheibany
OPINION
Cheraa
Khatami?
Why vote for Khatami?
By Farhad Behbahani
POP CULTURE
Romanticizing
the past
Googoosh is no feminist heroine
By Ramin Tabib
POP CULTURE
Googoosh,
the myth
Decoding a popular phenomenon
By Setareh Sabety
COMMUNITY
No
solidarity
Iranians in the U.S.
By Mehdi Bozorgmehr
MOSSADEGH
Don't
call me "Sir"
Mossadegh: Humility and integrity in government
SATIRE
Asghar
the liberator
... of ourselves
ByAsghar Shah
SATIRE
Persian
for president
To bring back the glory of the Persian Empire
By Siamack Baniameri
PEOPLE
My
flag
Conquering Mount Kilimanjaro cleared my mind
By Amir-Khosrow Sheibany
HOMELAND
Sense
of guilt
... for abandoning an ancient country
By H. Shamloo
OPINION
Uncivil
society
Boycotting elections teaches intolerance
By Hamid Zangeneh
OPINION
Passion
& tolerance
We must elevate to the higher plains of tolerance in political
debates
By Behrouz Enayati
SATIRE
Quit
whining
God's letter to Iranians
By Siamack Baniameri
APRIL FOOL
Not
without my mom
Reza Pahlavi is in Iran on the most important mission of his
life
OPINION
Organized
corruption
Why the Iranian economy is almost beyond repair
Fereydoun Hoveyda
REZA SHAH
The
Iranian Napoleon
Journey to internment
By C Skrine
SATIRE
Asghar
Shah
I hereby proclaim myself King of Kings
By Asghar Agha
SATIRE
Shah
Hassan at Price Club
Actually, Reza Pahlavi at National Press Club
By Karim Azari
OPINION
Repeating
mistakes
Britain, Iran & the 1919 Treaty
By A. R. Begli Beigie
OPINION
Shah
or president?
We should reject hereditary systems of government
By Fereydoun Hoveyda
YOUTH
Polittical
revolution
Interview with a student activist
By Fariba Amini
OPINION
Bring
back Persia
It is not just about a name
By G. Motamedi
SATIRE
If...
... the revolution had not happened
By Mariam Sorond
PEOPLE
My
friend
Reza Pahlavi's humility and friendliness has never changed
By Mihandoust
OPINION
Surprise
Nobody saw the revolution coming
By Maziar Behrooz
CALENDAR
Memory
lane
Looking back at the road to revolution
Compiled by Payman Arabshahi
RECOLLECTIONS
22
years ago
Ayatollah Khomeini returned from exile
January 31, 200
EDITORIAL
Happy
anniversary
The revolution that went terribly wrong
Editorial
OPINION
Thy
father's sins
The Shah did not make just a few mistakes
By Fariba Amini
PROFILE
The
general's widow
Overnight our lives had turned upside down
By Cyrus Kadivar
OPINION
What
future
... for Iran?
By Manoutchehr M. Eskandari-Qajar
SATIRE
Test
run
Reza Pahlavi should fly to Tehran
By Omid Ashraf
OPINION
Minority
rule
Shiism has a problem with majority rule
By Sohrab Mahdavi
SATIRE
Our
demands
We'll give Mr. Pahlavi a chance, if...
By Kobra Khanom
EDITORIAL
Citizen
Pahlavi
Holding on to the monarchy will not do him any good
Editorial
PRESS CONFERENCE
Democratic
republic or...
Reza Pahlavi says it's up to the people
Audio excerpts
OPINION
Rah-e
sevom
Open letter
By Majid Tehranian
EDITORIAL
What
rule of law?
Editorial
SHAH
Requiem
in Cairo
Marking the 20th anniversary of the Shah's death
By Cyrus Kadivar
SHAH
Free
elections, 1979
My last audience with the Shah
By Fereydoun Hoveyda
DIPLOMAT
Our
best bet
Tea with former British ambassador to Iran
By Cyrus Kadivar
MOSSADEGH
Just
like that
How the Mossadegh government was overthrown
By Mark Gasiorowski
PRIME MINISTER
The
fall guy
Biography of ill-fated Prime Minister Hoveyda
By Abbas Milani
DOCUMENTS
Unedited
CIA history of 53 coup
Cryptome
DOCUMENTS
CIA
history of 1953 coup
Official document published in
The New York Times
LOOKING BACK
Serving
His Majesty
A former prime minister speaks of the Pahlavi era
By Habib Ladjevardi
OBSERVER
The
last great revolution
Early passions have been replaced by a hard-earned pragmatism
By Robin Wright
SURVEY
Iranian
of the century
First choice: Mohammad
Mossadegh
Second: Ayatollah
Khomeini
Third: Reza
Shah
Fourth: Mohammad
Khatami
Fifth: Mohammad
Reza Shah
Thirty-six others: Notables
1999
SHAH
By
the pale-green stone
I blinked at a portrait in a gold frame: a saluting monarch in
white
By Cyrus Kadivar
OPINION
Changing
mindsets
Opening closed societies to democracy
By Fereydoun Hoveyda
BIOGRAPHY
From
Khomein
The life of the Ayatollah
By Baqer Moin
MILITARY
Cool
& confident
Iran's pre-revolution air force
Photos sent by Farhad M. and Pejvak
REZA SHAH
The
self-made king
With a little help from the British
By Cyrus Ghani
BOOK
Cut
from the source
The Shah seeks advice from intellectuals,
but it's too late
By Saideh Pakravan
1998
STATE SECURITY
Lunch
with Khomeini
How a former SAVAK chief saved the ayatollah's life
Edited by Habib Ladjevardi
LOOKING BACK
Too
much, too fast
Memoirs of Abdolmadjid Madjidi
Edited by Habib Ladjevardi
STATE SECURITY
A
sober look at SAVAK
An insider's sobering view of the Shah's secret service
By Manouchehr Hashemi
ARCHIVE
Mosaddegh
and you
Gathering views and data on Iran's "first democratic leader"
LOOKING BACK
Khaterat-e
Amirteymur Kalali
Memoirs of Mohammad Ebrahim Amirteymour Kalali
Edited by Habib Ladjevardi
NUCLEAR
The
Shah & The Bomb
History of Iran's Atomic Energy Program as told by Akbar
Etemad
Edited by Gholam Reza Afkhami
HISTORY
The
King and I
The tradition of Persian kingship
By Sandra Mackey
SURVEY
Looking
back, looking ahead
20th anniversary of the revolution
Letters
LITERATURE
Jamalzadeh
& Revolution
His early and late views on the 1979 revolution (in Persian)
1997
SHAH
Obsessed
& possessed
From Palace to Prison
By Ehsan Naraghi's
PORTRAITS
Our
leaders
Or should we say, our rulers? Mohammad Reza Shah and
Ayatollah Khomeini
SORAYA
Zir
derakht porteghaal (Persian)
The shah was human and she loved him
By Soraya Esfandiyari Bakhtiari
OPINION
Autocratic.
Immature.
Why the Pahlavi monarchy fell
Dr. Ahmad Ashraf
OPINION
It
was all their fault
Conspiracies theories explaining the 1979 revolution.
Daniel Pipes
OPINION
It
was all his fault
Where did the Russian Revolution go wrong.
David Remnick
GOVERNMENT
Democracy
or Theocracy
Ferdowsi's poetry sheds lights on ancient political thinking.
Dr. Mahmoud Sadri
GOVERNMENT
Velayate
Faqih Sassani?
Sassanid government was a political and religious unity.
J.M. Roberts
1996
RIGHTS
Aqa
Ejzaeh?
Going to SAVAK headquarters to get permission to travel
By Jalal Al-e Ahmad
REVOLUTION
Post-Mortem
Headlines from the days of the revolution
REVOLUTION
Clueless
in Tehran
How Americans evaluated the Shah and the revolution
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