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Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini

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4 months ago

King of Kings by Scott Anderson review – how the last shah of Iran sealed his own fate

A clear-eyed account of a difficult, complex man and his self-inflicted fall from grace

The last shah of Iran was a figure from Shakespearean tragedy: outwardly haughty and magnificent, inwardly insec…

5 months ago

Why is Iran’s nuclear programme so essential to its identity?

Why does a country with large oil reserves feel such a need to have home-grown civil nuclear energy?

  • Middle East crisis – live updates

In October 1978, two leaders of the Iranian opposition to the Brit…

9 months ago

‘It shook everyone up’: New York town hosting Salman Rushdie trial recalls knife attack

A liberal arts community finds itself hosting the closely-watched trial of man accused of stabbing novelist in 2022

The author Salman Rushdie will this week come face-to-face with the man accused of t…

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