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An Iranian Icon on Today's Protests
A decade before the massive demonstrations of the last month, a young Iranian became a symbol of student protests-and spent years in prison for it. Ahmad Batebi, now 32 and living in Washington, talks to The Daily Beast's Reza Aslan on the 10th anniversary of the uprising known as 18 Tir.
Portrait of Farah Dibah, who is now exiled queen of Iran, as the fiance of the Shah.
Inside Kissinger's Brain
In his masterly new book, Kissinger 1973, distinguished historian Sir Alistair Horne spotlights the man at the epicenter of the events that shook the decade.










