Iran
We Spoke to Some Iranians About Why They Voted for Rouhani
We spoke to a bunch of Iranians, some in Australia and some in Iran, to find out why so many people are ecstatically celebrating Rouhani’s election victory.
I Spoke to a Rejected Iranian Presidential Candidate
In a couple of weeks, Iranians will go to the polls to choose a replacement for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. There’s no reason to think this election will be transparent. To get an insider’s view, I called Hooshang Amirahmadi, one of the candidates...
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...
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.
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...
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.
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.
The Bedouin News – A Rise from the Saudi People Means a Rise in the Cost of, Well, Everything
The Arab Spring is heating up in Saudi Arabia, and that might make everything in the entire world much, much more expensive.
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.
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...
SeaFox: Wargames, Meet Watersports
U.S. sends a submersible SeaFox drones to pacify subsurface Iranian mine threats.