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Abandoned by the world and their own government, my family and the Iranian people relied on their strength to get through ...
Some parts of it were what you might call “visibly invisible”: Everyone in Tehran knows about Evin Prison, perched on the edge of the Alborz foothills, its name spoken with dread and resignation. But ...
T he enormous roundabout at Azadi Square was full of cars, yet still felt somehow deserted. Then it dawned on me: Humans—they ...
One Tehran is filled with apartments and parks, evening picnics and bus rides, laughter and prayer and disappointment—the “city of man,” in Augustine’s sense, full of contradictions and grace.
For 12 days, Tehran fell dark and silent, except for the sound of explosions. In their houses and apartments, Iranians tried ...
Yesterday Iranian media published new CCTV footage purporting to show an attack on Tehran during the war which was widely ...
[From the October 1906 issue: New York after Paris] That visible city was more modern, more vibrant than I had expected. Parks and flower gardens, legacies of Persian landscaping genius, were ...
NEW YORK (AP) — The streets of Tehran are empty, businesses closed, communications patchy at best. With no bona fide bomb shelters open to the public, panicked masses spend restless nights on ...
Residents of Iran’s capital were seen leaving the city and shops and the historic Grand Bazaar were closed Tuesday — the fifth day of the intensifying conflict started by Israel — hours after… ...