“History in Iran is contested,” writes Ali M. Ansari in “Iran, Islam and Democracy, The Politics of Managing Change”(Second Edition 2006, Royal Institute of International Affairs) – a fascinating evaluation of Iranian political development in...

Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Commander Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari announced here on Monday that the IRGC has broken up an Israeli spy ring. Jafari said that the IRGC intelligence organization recently discovered that a Mossad spy network was...

What surprised me about Hossein Derakhshan when I interviewed him in a cafe on Jerusalem’s Emek Refaim Street two years ago was that the self-exiled Iranian, who was arrested this month during a visit to Tehran on suspicion of being an Israeli...