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Welcome to Nakhchivan, the San Francisco of the Caucasus Mountains

As my plane touched down in Azerbaijan’s Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, I half expected to step out into a crumbling landscape ripped from a still of 'Enemy at the Gates.' Admittedly, I’d formed this image based on scant and stale stories, but the modern history of this massive exclave—a 2,000 square mile chunk of Azerbaijan cut off from the main body of the country by hostile Armenia—doesn’t lend itself to hope and happy thoughts. Full story

Looking at Modern-Day Iran Through the Eyes of an Exile

At 21 years old, instead of shotgunning beers and flirting with the idea of a career in bedroom production, Hesam Misaghi was riding a horse through a mountain pass with a bunch of smugglers who were trying to help him escape Iran. Full story

How Many Ways Did the Oscars Offend Everyone?

Like all major events where anyone talks for more than half an hour, the Academy Awards were a chance for people to get extremely angry about what others were saying and doing. Here is an incomplete list of the events that happened during the Oscars that people took offense to. Full story

Global Fear League 2013

It's time yet again for our annual Global Fear League, your guide to which countries will be held up by our media as bastions of terror this year—the year the world finally gives in and surrenders itself to the delicious prospect of all-out war. Full story

Fresh Off the Boat

Los Angeles

In the first part of the LA episode, Eddie rolls through Tehrangeles and shops for Persian rugs that cost as much as cars, eats brain and tongue sandwiches, and tests out magical saffron ice cream before ending the night at Little Tehran's most famed hookah spot. Full story

Tehran's Eagle Eye

Iran is saying it captured another American spy drone. Didn't this just happen? Full story

These Iranian World of Warcraft Fans Are Sad Their Game Got Banned

And it's not like they can get over it by going out and getting laid. Full story

The Arab Spring's Forgotten Uprising

Never heard of Ahwaz? That's because, officially, it's called Khuzestan and is home to one of Iran's longest running independence movements—a movement that Iran has been fighting and brutalizing to keep quiet. Full story

World Peace Update

World Peace Update

Last week, Satan and his evil minions just barely managed to quench their thirst on a limited supply of human slaughter. Lucky for them, this week is a veritable bloodbath of failed peace attempts from an eclectic band of stooges including California police, suicide bombers, squa… Full story

SeaFox: Wargames, Meet Watersports

U.S. sends a submersible SeaFox drones to pacify subsurface Iranian mine threats. Full story