As US troops go home, Baghdad bookstore mirrors Iraq’s fortunes 7 years after invasion

How goes Iraq? view from a bookstore is revealing

Iran clerics to enter classrooms to combat Western ‘arrogance’ and opposition influence

Iran clerics to fight West influence in classrooms

Anniversary of disputed Iranian election that triggered calls for change passes quietly

Anniversary of disputed Iran vote passes quietly

Report: Attacker at Iranian university stabs faculty member who was in reformist ex-government

Reformist ex-official stabbed at Iran university

In a conservative Turkish city, Iranian gays find an uneasy refuge from persecution at home

Iranian homosexuals carve out a refuge in Turkey

Who succeeds Iraq’s top Shiite cleric is as much about foreign meddling, money as about piety

Who succeeds top Iraqi cleric not just about piety

Clinton: Iran becoming a military dictatorship with the Guard Corps supplanting government

Clinton: Iran is becoming a military dictatorship

Text of President Obama’s first State of the Union address

Tehran blames US, Israel after bomb blast kills Iranian physicist who backed opposition leader

Iran blames US, Israel after bomb kills physicist

Bomb kills Iranian physicist who backed opposition leader; Tehran blames US, Israel

Bomb kills Iran physicist; US, Israel blamed

Report: Tehran professors denounce crackdown on opposition in letter to Iran’s supreme leader

Iran university professors denounce crackdown