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Iran: Blacklisted Stars Make a Comeback

Iran: Blacklisted Stars Make a Comeback

For more than 30 years the Iranian press has had to observe a black list of names that should never be mentioned in print in the Islamic Republic. A good many of those “forbidden” names belong to pre-revolution film stars who were admired, criticized, loved and hated...
Iranian Press: Reading between the Lines

Iranian Press: Reading between the Lines

Shortly after the “liberation” of Iraq in 2003, the CIA set up a “listening post” in Dubai with the mission to monitor radio and TV broadcasts from the Islamic Republic and read newspapers published in Iran. To that end they hired a number of young journalists from...