Brad Pitt and the Girl Guerrillas
The green and brown scrub brush in the Qandil Mountains acquires a thick layer of snow by late fall. In happier times, these peaks at the border between Iraq and Iran would offer tourists spectacular...
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Interviews with Iranian Opposition Leaders
During March and April 2007, Mother Jones released interviews with Iranian opposition leaders. The interviews were conducted by journalist Reese Erlich, author of “The Iran Agenda: The Real Story of...
View ArticleInterview: Akbar Ganji
Journalist Akbar Ganji spent six years imprisoned in Iran for revealing that Iranian intelligence officials murdered dissident intellectuals. He was tortured in jail but was released in 2006. Now...
View ArticleInterview: Bashar al-Assad
Syria has long been in Washington’s sites as a state sponsor of terrorism, a friend of Iran and an enemy of Israel. But the reality is more complicated. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad cooperated...
View ArticleInterview: Shirin Ebadi
Shirin Ebadi is a former Iranian judge who was forced to resign after the conservative clerics took power in 1979. She became a major human rights campaigner, and was awarded the Nobel peace prize in...
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