Being better off in the impoverished country means more deadly attacks by attention-seeking Taliban.
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Being better off in the impoverished country means more deadly attacks by attention-seeking Taliban.
Simin Behbahani, whose poetry was quoted by Barack Obama, has died aged 87. But her work lives on.
A year after Iran’s president first introduced himself to the world, his UN speech this time had greater urgency.
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Meet Ebrahim Asgharzadeh, a key player in the US hostage crisis which shook international relations for decades.
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A different foreign policy approach will be a welcome relief to many Iranians, tired of being an international pariah.