Just last month, the formerly anonymous activist who captured the death of Iranian protester Neda Agha-Soltan won a prestigious Polk journalism award. Of course, Iran, Cuba, and Sudan could simply choose to block the services, as China does.

If there's one thing that last year's election protests in Iran taught the American public, it's that rarely is the conventional narrative the only one, or indeed the most important. Until the riots broke out, there was an implicit assumption that if ...

We'll never know the man who stood in front of those tanks in Tiananmen Square, but we do know Neda Agha-Soltan: we've looked into her eyes. For one gut-wrenching moment, as she lay dying from the bullet in her heart on that Tehran side street last ...

It included videos of the death of Neda Agha-Soltan, which went ... are a big problem and illustrates how stories proliferate, because they are shared rapidly. “It is often very hard to disprove a completely false story,” he laments. *

Last May, Mona Kasra visited Iran for the first time since leaving her native country nine years earlier. She had returned there for family reasons, but a fortuitous set of circumstances landed her back home at a time when Iran was in the final weeks ...

Several weeks ago, I was watching the NBC nightly news when I saw a story about the problems with and possible recall of Toyota vehicles. I was horrified to hear a 911 tape immediately preceding the death of a family of three broadcast for all of ...

He was also briefly arrested after attending a memorial to student Neda Agha Soltan, killed at an opposition rally last June ... It tells the story of a group of female football fans who try to sneak into Iran’s World Cup qualifying match against ...

He was arrested briefly after attending the memorial service of murdered student, Neda Agha Soltan. Panahi is well known for his socially ... His most famous film in the West, ‘Offside’, is the story of a group of women attempting to sneak into ...

Neda Agha-Soltan was shot to death by pro-government militiamen during a protest last June over the results of the presidential election in Iran. Anti-government protesters took to the streets again this week on the occasion of the 31st anniversary ...

A mir is plain-spoken when he talks about the place called Behesht-e Zahra – the Paradise of Zahra – but a quiet awe sets in quickly. “It’s a massive cemetery on the outskirts of Tehran, on the way to the city of Qum,” he says. “It’s ...