BY JENNIFER KELTZ In September, a drone attack crippled vital chokepoints in Saudi Arabia’s oil infrastructure. This attack, which the United States and Saudi Arabia blamed on Iran, is not an isolated incident: it occurred amidst rising tensions in a…
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Iranian Students Mobilize in the US to Change Single-Entry Visa Law
BY MICHELE MOGHTADER Nasim Sabounchi, a 21year-old Iranian was ecstatic when she received her acceptance letter to Virginia Tech’s PhD program in 2002. Nasim’s excitement soon turned to worry as she thought of how she had to be away from…
Exiled From Iran
BY JEFFREY BERMAN Behzad Yaghmaian, an Iranian author and economist living in New York City, last visited Iran in 1998. Unlike previous trips home, this time Yaghmaian knew this time that returning to Iran again would be difficult, perhaps impossible.…