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Women & Gender
A traditional Iranian sport has been closed off to women. One activist wants to change that.
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Music
TarantisT bandleader on protests in Iran: ‘This is not protest anymore. This is a revolution’
In this photo taken by an individual not employed by the Associated Press and obtained by the AP outside Iran, Iranians protests the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini after she was detained by the morality police, in Tehran, Oct. 1, 2022. 
Protest
Amid ongoing protests, Iran’s morality police ‘lies in ruins,’ analyst says
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Music
‘For the Sake of’ song becomes anthem for protests in Iran
A gas station is empty because the gas pumps are out of service in Tehran, Iran, after a widespread outage of a system that allows consumers to buy fuel with a government-issued card
Top of The World
Iran faces widespread gas station outage, believed to be a cyberattack.
A family visits across the U.S.-Canada border at the Peace Arch Historical State Park as a cyclist rides past on the Canadian side, in Blaine, Wash.
Top of The World
US to reopen land borders next month to fully vaccinated people
A woman and a boy walk on the dried up riverbed of the Zayandeh Roud river that no longer runs under the 400-year-old Si-o-seh Pol bridge, named for its 33 arches, in Isfahan, Iran
Climate Change
Iran’s ‘system is essentially water bankrupt,’ says environmental expert
Sabha Aminikia immigrated to the US as a refugee and began studying at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. But even as he launched his career in America, his music was often focused on Iran.
Movement
Iranian American composer Sahba Aminikia: Music transforms like raindrops that ‘wash this part of humanity’
A rocket goes off with fire underneath it.
Critical State
The leftovers: What happens to foreign policy in power transitions? Part I
Reporters Shirin Jaafari and Jorge Valencia will talk to The World's senior editor Daisy Contreras about some of the foreign policy issues at stake in the 2020 election.
2020 US presidential election
Discussion: What’s at stake in the 2020 election?
Two Iranian women take a selfie outside a shopping mall in northern Tehran, Iran, on July 2, 2019.
#MeToo
Iranians share stories of sexual harassment, abuse on social media
Iraqi young volunteers spray with disinfectants to combat an outbreak of coronavirus during a curfew imposed by Iraqi authorities, in the old city of Mosul, Iraq, March 15, 2020.
Education
Online learning is a big struggle in formerly ISIS-controlled Mosul
A man kisses a woman wearing blach shorts on a rooftop overlooking a pink skyline
Justice
As Iran arrests Instagram influencers, some seek safety abroad 
Iranians wear protective face masks while riding on the metro crowded together
COVID-19
Coronavirus cases in Iran on the rise after reopening
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Against judge’s order, Iranian student removed from US
Politics with Amy Walter: Iran, Impeachment, and Iowa
Full Episode
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin take questions as they announce new sanctions on Iran in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on Jan. 10, 2020.
Foreign policy
Analysis: Iran-US relationship still precarious with no clear US strategy in sight
S2 Bonus – Our Closet Bunker Broadcast on Iran
Full Episode
A group of people sit around a table with laptops.
Media
Exiled journalists in Germany find ‘hope’ with a magazine that speaks their language
A black and white photo of a cheetah with mountainous terrain behind
They wanted to save endangered cheetahs in Iran. Their work landed them in jail.
Two oil tankers in the ocean.
Military
Tensions rise in Gulf after oil tanker standoff between Iran and the UK
S2 Bonus – Amb. William Burns
Full Episode
S2 E7 (Fallout) – Collateral Damage
Full Episode
Podcast: Tensions Between U.S. and Iran Heighten 2019-06-18
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The U.S. Label Iran’s IRGC a Foreign Terrorist Organization
Full Episode
Ken Kraus receives a medal in front of an airplane
A Marine remembers Tehran
A mother and son embrace in a library.
Immigration
For some Iranian families separated by the travel ban, this border library offers brief moments of reunion
Gina Haspel Faces Tough Confirmation to Head C.I.A.
Full Episode
Iran, Censors, Cinema
Full Episode
Persepolis and Iran
Full Episode
Arts, Culture & Media
Shirin Neshat: Between Iran and America
Arts, Culture & Media
Shirin Neshat: Between Iran and America
Arts, Culture & Media
Special Guest: Azar Nafisi
Arts, Culture & Media
In What Language
Arts, Culture & Media
Masters of Persian Music
Arts, Culture & Media
Politics and Poetry
Arts, Culture & Media
Getting Past the Censors
Arts, Culture & Media
Iranian Cinema
Arts, Culture & Media
Us & Them
Arts, Culture & Media
Mohammed In Denmark
Arts, Culture & Media
Political Poetry
Arts, Culture & Media
Getting Past the Censors
Arts, Culture & Media
Masters of Persian Music
Arts, Culture & Media
Mamak Khadem
Arts, Culture & Media
Artists on Iran
Arts, Culture & Media
Iranian Director in Exile
Arts, Culture & Media
A Garden of Eden without Adam
Arts, Culture & Media
Five Things You Had to See Online This Week
The Top Risks Facing the World in 2018
Full Episode
As Tension Grows With the United States, North Korea Looks South
Full Episode
A building burns during street protests in Dorud, Iran.
Conflict
Unrest is rippling through Iran’s strategic oil heartland
Amir Rashidi, an Internet security researcher who has worked with Telegram users who were victims of hacking, works at the offices of International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, in the Brooklyn borough of New York, U.S., July 27, 2016.
Technology
Amid protests, Iran is blocking social media apps and other web services
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Economics
As US sanctions keep Western businesses out of Iran, China seizes the opportunity
Yassi Ashki teaches a workshop for teachers at a school in Tehran.
Health
These young women are raising awareness about sexual health in Iran
A wounded boy is treated following an earthquake in Sarpol-e Zahab county in Kermanshah, Iran.
Conflict
Sanctions on Iran make it difficult to donate after the devastating earthquake. Here’s how you can help.
19-year-old Amir Darabi at Berklee College of Music in Boston.
Music
An Iranian piano prodigy. A big dream. And an arduous visa process.
Xiyue Wang and Hua Qu with their son. Wang has been in prison in Iran for more than a year.
Justice
The wife of a Princeton scholar imprisoned in Iran worries about the fate of the Iran nuclear deal
Iran rocket launch
Conflict
US, Europeans push UN to react to Iran’s ‘threatening’ rocket launch
People are seen inside Iran's parliament during an attack in central Tehran
Conflict
ISIS has wanted to strike in Iran for a long time
Donald Trump takes his seat before his speech to the Arab Islamic American Summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, May 21, 2017.
Conflict
Trump slams Iran in first foreign speech, delivered from Saudi Arabia