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Hezbollah supporters hold images of the late founder of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (L) and Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenai, during celebrations marking the 40th anniversary of the Iranian revolution in Beirut on February 6, 2019. (ANWAR AMRO / AFP)
February 10, 2019, 8:26 pm
Iran’s revolution: Political quake still shaking Middle East
Ousting the shah in 1979 upended regional order, and continues to shape events today in Yemen, Syria and Lebanon
By Kay Armin Serjoie and Marc Jourdier
Still from the Iranian film No Date, No Signature (YouTube)
September 19, 2018, 11:21 pm
Iran film for Oscars stirs debate on home front
Conservatives propose an alternative nomination to ‘No Date, No Signature’ — of movie funded by Revolutionary Guards on ‘battle against jihadists in Syria’
By Marc Jourdier
(COMBO) This combination of pictures created on September 6, 2018 shows (L to R): Iran's President Hassan Rouhani speaking on September 22, 2016 in New York; Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during a press conference on May 15, 2018 in London; and Russian President Vladimir Putin during a televised phone-in on June 7, 2018 in Moscow. The presidents of Iran, Russia and Turkey meet on September 7 in Tehran for a summit set to decide the future of Idlib province amid fears of a humanitarian disaster in Syria's last major rebel bastion. / AFP PHOTO / AFP PHOTO AND SPUTNIK
September 7, 2018, 2:04 pm
Fate of Syria’s Idlib in balance as Putin, Erdogan land in Iran for summit
Leaders discuss fate of province, the last rebel holdout in the civil war, with regime offensive — and possible humanitarian disaster — looming
By Marc Jourdier
Destroyed houses in Khorramshahr, Iran during the Iran-Iraq War (YouTube screenshot)
August 18, 2018, 9:26 pm
Tehran museum lionizes 1980s war in which Iran took on ‘whole world’
State-of-the-art facility glorifies nation’s steadfastness in face of adversity during Iran-Iraq War, makes no mention of Israel’s military support against Saddam
By Marc Jourdier
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani listens during a joint press conference with Austrian President following talks on July 4, 2018 at the Hofburg Palace in Vienna. (AFP PHOTO / APA / GEORG HOCHMUTH)
July 5, 2018, 10:13 pm
Surge of hardliner support for Rouhani after his anti-Israel words
Revolutionary Guards’ head thanks president for ‘wise and appropriate’ words while his hawkish comments imply he may block the Strait of Hormuz
By Marc Jourdier
A man reading Al-Hayat newspaper at a cafe in the Saudi capital Riyadh, November 5, 2017. (AFP / FAYEZ NURELDINE)
November 12, 2017, 8:58 pm
Old rivalries give way to new threats, as Iran-Saudi ‘Cold War’ heats up
The Sunni kingdom and Shiite Islamic Republic have long sparred over religion and regional control
By Marc Jourdier and Anuj Chopra
A handout picture provided by the Iranian Presidency shows Iran's President Hassan Rouhani, right, with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during a welcome ceremony in Tehran on October 4, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / Iranian Presidency / HO)
October 4, 2017, 2:09 pm
Erdogan visits Iran amid warming ties, shared worries
Two countries support rival camps in Syrian war but united in opposing Kurdish independence moves
By Marc Jourdier
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