Jon Snow
Iran: hunting for golf balls on the Caspian coast
Iran blog: thirty-one years on, Jon Snow recalls the hunt for the elusive Caspian sea golf balls and the day he was “in on a moment of modern history”.
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Iran: revolution revisited
Against a backdrop of growing diplomatic tensions, the nuclear question and increasing reports of human rights abuse, Iran marked the 31st anniversary of the 1979 Islamic revolution in February 2010.
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Iran today is a battle of numbers and slogans
As Iran celebrates the 31st anniversary of the revolution, a slogan war is emerging on the streets between competing factions, blogs Lindsey Hilsum.
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Jon Snow
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British woman among protesters on trial in Iran
Channel 4 News’s foreign correspondent Jonathan Miller investigates claims that an Iranian-British woman is facing charges for a capital offence in Iran.
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Jon Snow
If Khamenei falls the Islamic Revolution may unravel
Events are running in Iran, and the revolutionary system is too divided, too much at war with itself to retrieve the initiative.
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Interviewing a former Iranian Basij militia member
Lindsey Hilsum blogs about her interview with an Iranian militiaman of the infamous Basij.
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Hundreds of Iranian students protest
Iran’s universities are in ferment. This is the third day of anti-government protests. On Monday, National Students Day, students and others took to the streets and hundreds, maybe thousands, were arrested and beaten by the basiij militia.
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Are the 'hairy beards' in control of Iran?
Lindsey Hilsum writes on whether the “hairy beards” of Iran are really in control of the country at all?
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Some things change in Iran, but some things stay the same
The Iranian government would have us believe that the opposition is dying, suppressed out of all existence. Since mid July it’s been pretty much impossible for large crowds to gather – every time they do, basiij militia come out to beat people up or arrest them. The opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi said he had evidence…