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The Iranian revolution

January 2024

  • Rt Rev Dr Guli Francis-Dehqani in the Desert Island Discs studio

    Bishop of Chelmsford recalls fleeing Iran in 1980 after brother’s murder

    Rt Rev Dr Guli Francis-Dehqani tells Desert Island Discs how she came to UK at 14 after deadly ambush of elder brother

August 2023

  • Lord David Owen

    UK should finally acknowledge role in 1953 Iran coup, says David Owen

  • The Iranian coup in 1953

    ‘Written out of the history books’: the British spy who planned Iranian coup

July 2023

  • Khosrow Hassanzadeh with his work Haft Khan: The Seven Labours of Rostam, mixed media on ceramic tiles, at the Nathalie Obadia gallery, Brussels, in 2010, the year of its creation. Persian folk wrestlers embodied the courage and chivalry of Rostam, the Iranian Hercules.

    Khosrow Hassanzadeh obituary

  • Students protest outside the gates of the Faculty of Psychology at the University of Tehran, Iran

    Rights and freedom
    Students barred from Iranian universities for refusing to wear a hijab

March 2023

  • Head shot of Parastou Forhouar, an Iranian artist living in Germany, and Shiva Amini, an Iranian futsal coach living in Italy

    The women forced out of Iran: ‘Every act of resistance is a spark of hope’

    As Iranian girls rise up against the iron rule of the Islamic Republic, seven women – from a boxer to a politician – talk about why they had to flee their homeland

February 2023

  • Reza Pahlavi

    Iran protests are at do-or-die moment, says son of former shah

    Reza Pahlavi, whose father was deposed in 1979, urges west to give active support and proscribe Revolutionary Guards

October 2022

  • ‘We shall rise again’ … Shirin Neshat’s Rebellious Silence, with a poem as a veil.

    The great women's art bulletin
    Guns, veils, unflinching stares: the banned work about Iran’s female rebels

    Three decades ago, Shirin Neshat infuriated Iran’s government with her photographs of the heroic women who had lived through its revolution. Their defiance echoes today’s brave Mahsa Amini protesters

September 2022

  • Crowds clash with police in Tehran on 21 September.

    Protests spread in Iran as President Raisi vows to crack down

    Demonstrations that began with death of Mahsa Amini while detained by morality police pose biggest threat to regime in 13 years

May 2021

  • A detail from Shirin Aliabadi’s Miss Hybrid #3, 2008.

    ‘Iranian culture has huge depths and continues to be relevant today’

    Five thousand years of Iranian art goes on show at the V&A this month. A private collector who lent many of the treasures reveals what light they cast on the country

March 2020

  • Emamzadeh Saleh in Tehran, Iran

    Aria by Nazanine Hozar review – coming of age in divided Tehran

    This powerfully crafted debut explores the darkness and hope of a city on the brink of revolution

November 2019

  • The occupation of the US embassy in Tehran, Iran, 1979.

    From the Guardian archive
    Iranian students take over US embassy in Tehran - archive, 1979

    5 November 1979: Up to 100 hostages taken and captors say they will be held until the US government agrees to return the deposed Shah

July 2019

  • Filmfarsi megastars Nasser Malek Motie (left) and Fardin, who often portrayed working-class tough guys.

    How Iran's 'filmfarsi' remains the biggest secret in cinema history

    For many Iranians, the oft-forgotten films are a souvenir of a lost past, painting a picture of life before the 1979 revolution

February 2019

  • Official portrait of President Jimmy Carter. Ca. 1977-1980.<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Everett/REX Shutterstock (1898407a) Official portrait of President Jimmy Carter. Ca. 1977-1980. Official portrait of President Jimmy Carter. Ca. 1977-1980.

    The week in radio and podcasts: Fall of the Shah; How to Burn a Million Quid

    The BBC revisits the Iranian revolution in gloriously hammy style, while the KLF’s antics strike a surreal note still

September 2018

  • Simon Tisdall

    Trump is risking more than a war of words with Iran

    Simon Tisdall
    The president could incite a conflict much bigger than any crisis manufactured for the midterms, says the foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall

August 2018

  • President Hassan Rouhani and President Donald Trump as the US reinstates economic sanctions on Iran

    The Guardian view on Iran and sanctions: the EU stands firm

    Editorial: The nuclear deal was never perfect. But the Trump administration’s determination to derail it could have terrible consequences

January 2018

  • Pro-government demonstration

    Iran is not near a precipice, but vast changes are afoot

    Masoud Golsorkhi
    Street protests in Iran are about public anger with the economy but do not signal a downfall of the reformist government

October 2017

  • Nesrine Malik

    The House of Saud is still in denial

    Nesrine Malik
    Despite crown prince Mohammed’s pledge of reform there is no honest acknowledgement yet of what lies behind Saudi Arabia’s malaise, says writer Nesrine Malik, who lived and worked in Saudi Arabia

July 2017

  • Senator Sam Dastyari

    Sam Dastyari: The day my mother wasn't executed

    Is there such thing as a western view of death? The Labor senator reflects on his family history in an effort to understand the random nature of life

March 2017

  • An Iranian woman looks at the lefthand panel of Francis Bacon’s triptych, Two Figures Lying on a Bed with Attendant” (1968).

    Francis Bacon and gay Iranian artist Bahman Mohasses shown in Tehran

    Exhibits include works by Francis Bacon and gay Iranian painter Bahman Mohasses – bought before the Islamic revolution of 1979
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