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Tehran Bureau

The Tehran Bureau is an independent news organisation, formerly hosted by the Guardian, offering original reporting, comment and analysis on one of the world's most important stories. Follow @Tehran Bureau on Twitter and Facebook.

29 September 2016

  • An Iranian man sits in front of holy scroll.

    Removal of the heart: how Islam became a matter of state in Iran

    Some academics argue the Safavid Shahs gave Iranian Shiism a rule-fixation and abandonment of spirituality it has never lost

23 September 2016

  • A man swims in Lake Urmia, northwestern Iran.

    ‘I am Lake Urmia’: a social media campaign takes on the environment in Iran

    Shirin Hakim and Kaveh Madani for Tehran Bureau
    Lake Urmia’s grim destiny reflects a wider trend of enviromental problems in Iran, including an over-reliance on dams, extreme weather patterns, climatic changes, poor irrigation practices and unregulated use of water

13 July 2016

  • Iranian women leave after the Eid al-Fitr prayers in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, July 6, 2016. Eid al-Fitr marks the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

    Polling gives a dark forecast for Iranian president Hassan Rouhani

    Rouhani is losing ground as his fundamentalists opponents push slogans oddly similar to those of Donald Trump and the Brexiteers

1 July 2016

  • Tehran, Iran: Portrait Of Ayatollah Khomeini, Iranian Spiritual Leader. Photograph: Denis Cameron/Rex Features

    The lure of conspiracy theories in Iranian politics

    Roham Alvandi and Christian Emery for Tehran Bureau
    Do documents support the claim from BBC Persian that the United States helped Ayatollah Khomeini gain power in 1979?

25 May 2016

  • The US Treasury building in Washington DC.

    'A kind of death': life on the US Treasury blacklist

    The United States in 2009 listed Kassim Tajideen as a financier of Hezbollah, the Iran-allied Lebanese party, leaving him shut out from banks with no legal redress

10 May 2016

  • Hoda Zarbaf, Vaginal Rapture, 2014. Old furniture, recycled clothes, found objects, fiber stuffing (machine and hand-stitched), 222x116x118 cm. Photograph: Courtesy of the artist

    In from the cold: Iran x Cuba – review

    Playful seriousness abounds in this exhibition at New York’s Rogue Space gallery

9 May 2016

  • The swirling landscape of Iran’s salt desert, Dasht-e Kavir.

    A grand but faulty vision for Iran's water problems

    Ali Mirchi and Kaveh Madani for Tehran Bureau
    Massive water transfer schemes are no solution to Iran’s growing problems with drought

3 May 2016

  • Head scans at a surgery ward in Tehran, Iran.

    Desperate remedies: inside a neurosurgery ward in Iran

    For the very sick, it doesn’t matter whether sanctions or government mismanagement is more to blame for the state of its health service. A doctor-in-training gives us an inside look

28 April 2016

  • An Iranian woman adjusts her head scarf while crossing a street in downtown Tehran, Iran.

    Why so many Iranians have come to hate the hijab

    Denise Hassanzade Ajiri for Tehran Bureau
    Over the years the state crackdown on women’s dress has become more of a show to placate the country’s hardline base. Our correspondent shares stories from her personal repertoire illustrating the point

27 April 2016

  • Omid Kokabee, left, is an Iranian physicist jailed for more than five years on political grounds, and Hossein Ronaghi, right, an imprisoned blogger who is on a hunger strike in the country.

    North American professors' plea to President Rouhani: the full letter

    Cancer and other chronic diseases are reportedly sweeping Iran’s prisons and inmates are routinely denied access to proper medical care. A group of prominent professors urge the President to intervene quickly

25 April 2016

  • Russian President Putin Meets Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu at the Kremlin on 21 April 2016.

    The tricky triangle of Iran, Russia and Israel

    On the complex regional chess board, Iran wants better relations with Moscow even as the Russians have extended their intelligence co-operation with Israel in Syria

22 April 2016

  • Lightshow, Tehran, Iran.

    Discount ticket on the bus to reform: Iran's runoff elections

    Mahmoud Sadri and Emad Goli for Tehran Bureau
    The reformists used to give up when their candidates were disqualified or defeated in the first round - now they ask voters to go tactical. The remaining parliamentary seats are up for grab next week

19 April 2016

  • Talks of ‘economic jihad’ go back to the 1979 Revolution and the heroism of the 1980-88 war with Iraq. Ali Khamenei, then president, speaking on the anniversary of the Iranian Revolution, in 1986.

    Deciphering the Iranian leader's call for a 'resistance economy'

    As with the nuclear agreement, supreme leader Ali Khamenei and President Rouhani may have more in common than in dispute over the economy and foreign investment

13 April 2016

  • A branch of Iran’s Bank Mellat in Seoul, South Korea.

    Untangling Iran's web of sanctions after the nuclear deal

    A former US negotiator doesn’t want European companies to be afraid of doing business with the Islamic Republic. Just do your due diligence and keep records, says Richard Nephew

11 April 2016

  • Persian spices on display at a market.

    Herbal life: traditional medicine gets a modern twist in Iran

    Iranians have long used traditional remedies to cure all kinds of ailments - pennyroyal to soothe, chicory to purify, marjoram to lift the spirits. But a rapid recent growth in traditional medicine has led to problems with regulation

8 April 2016

  • Dezful

    On the shoulder of giants in southwest Iran – in pictures

    Photographer Sabyl Ghoussoub always wanted to take pictures of the country, but he was’t interested in veiled women, clerics or the underground scene in Tehran. The road less traveled led to Dezful

6 April 2016

  • Irib signal

    Hard talk or tunnel vision? Iranian TV needs to wise up

    Rohollah Faghihi for Tehran Bureau
    Irib’s monopoly has gone, but burying its head in the sand only harms state broadcasting as a whole, argues Rohollah Faghihi. Even conservatives agree

31 March 2016

  • An Iranian worshipper prays.

    Iranian group gets help from Islam to save juveniles from execution

    As 160 under-18s wait on death row in the Islamic Republic, an NGO is raising blood money and public awareness to halt executions of juvenile offenders

30 March 2016

  • Iran Trail Image New

    Sanctions, western misunderstanding and religion: 100 Iranians share their views

    How does it feel to live in the Islamic Republic, long-maligned by the world? Are its people misrepresented, and if so how do we remedy that? Here 100 people living in the country and across the diaspora share their views

29 March 2016

  • A dog is cared for at the Maryam Sanei hospice

    A sanctuary for stray dogs grows in Iran thanks to social media

    Animal lover Maryam Sanei has set up a hospice for unwanted pooches. A draft law penalising those who harass stray animals was referred to the President’s office last month
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