Iran still really dislikes that one story Rushdie told last century
The more-or-less abrogated fatwa on author Salman Rushdie has officially been renewed. The twenty-three year old edict was first issued by Ayatollah Khomeini in an effort to punish Rushdie in… Read more »
Under the radar, another long-awaited ebook becomes available …
Mahmoud Dowlatabadi’s sprawling epic Missing Soluch has been described as The Grapes of Wrath of Iran and in many ways it is a comparable book. Both books have at their core… Read more »
Say you’re the Israeli captain of a Dolphin-class nuclear submarine cruising the Red Sea and you learn that Iran (or, to make things more complicated, an agent acting in Iran’s… 5 / Read more »