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Iran's Brave Leading Lady
Shohreh Aghdashloo shows the dark side of life for Iranian women in the explosive film The Stoning of Soraya M., and hopes to inspire a new generation of Muslim women.
Iran's Exiled Queen Speaks
As protesters flood Iran's streets, Farah Pahlavi-the deposed empress-recalls the lessons of the 1979 uprising that led to her husband's painful exile. A conversation with The Daily Beast.
Former Iran Hostage: This Isn't a Revolution
Moorhead Kennedy was taken hostage in Iran in 1979 and watched the government crumble. He tells The Daily Beast's Benjamin Sarlin about why regime change is unlikely this time around.
What I Saw at the Revolution
Thirty years after the Shah left Iran, Tehran-born novelist Porochista Khakpour recalls the Ten Days of Dawn.
Carter's One Regret
In a revealing new interview, The Daily Beast's Reza Aslan talks to Jimmy Carter about what he would have done differently in the bungled hostage rescue of 1980-plus, the "political suicide" of condemning Israel.



















