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By MUHAMMAD SAHIMI in Los Angeles | 15 Aug 2009 [TEHRAN BUREAU] Iran’s judiciary is facing a deep crisis. The Stalinesque show trials alone would be comical if not for the serious and grave nature of them. Dungeons in the Interior Ministry, torture to the point...

The inside story of TehranBureau.com. I was a student at Columbia Journalism School in 2005 when David Remnick of The New Yorker visited our class one evening. In response to a question about his magazine's Iran coverage, he unwittingly gave me an idea that led...

Ayatollah calls for emergency Assembly of Experts meeting Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Mohammad Dastgheib, a member of the Assembly of Experts and a senior cleric, issued a statement calling for an emergency meeting of the Assembly. “When Imam Khomeini said ‘support the...

“The instigators of these events, whomever they were, intended to eliminate the rule of the just jurisprudent,” said Mesbah-Yazdi, speaking in Qom. “The enemy wanted to eliminate or weaken this fundamental pillar. In this course, certain parties knowingly and...

In an unprecedented move, Iranian state broadcaster IRIB aired a report in which the Israeli cabinet was used as an example of a government where women hold ministerial positions. Earlier, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had hinted at his decision to include a number of female...

[Deutsche Welle] August 10, 2009 Hossein Karroubi, the son of defeated Reformist candidate Mehdi Karroubi, says his father’s letter to Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani was sent for the purpose of being forwarded to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Karroubi recently...

[TEHRAN BUREAU] Of all the reformist leaders who have been the target of the wrath of Iran’s hardliners, none, with the possible exception of Dr. Saeed Hajjarian, have been like Behzad Nabavi and Sayyed Mostafa Tajzadeh. Both are members of the central committee...

[TEHRAN BUREAU] Everyone in my family who said they would not, went to vote. Unfortunately, I could not vote since I had left my national identification booklet back home in New York. My twenty something year old cousins banded together to find relatives standing...