Saffron
A highly prized spice native to Iran, historically used in ancient Persia to medicate, dye, weave, and beautify. Today it gives Iranian cuisine its distinctive yellow pigment. ‘Saffron’ blog flavors the discussion of all things Iranian.
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Friday, 17 May, 2013
On June 14, Iran will hold its long-awaited presidential elections. The vast majority of the 686 individuals who have registered to contest the elections will not appear on the ballot. The Guardian Council—Iran’s unelected 12-man vetting agency that determines who can run for any political office in the country—is likely to reject all but a very small number of the aspirants. The list of those cleared to run will be made available by the Council on May 18. In the last Iranian presidential ...
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Friday, 10 May, 2013
The five-day registration process for candidates in next month’s Iranian presidential elections officially opened this Tuesday, marking the beginning of what is likely to be a very important few weeks in Iran. In a live TV broadcast, Iranian interior minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar urged presidential hopefuls to register promptly and not wait until the last moment—a clear dig at the more famous candidates, who usually wait until the last days of the registration period, which ends Saturday ...
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Wednesday, 8 May, 2013
The next presidential election in Iran is less than six weeks away, but there seems to be much less excitement about this election among observers and policy circles in the US than...
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Friday, 26 Apr, 2013
Freedom never comes free. Long before this concept was dissected by existentialists, Iranians have been catching glimpses of it in the mirror of their history. So when Ayatollah Kh...
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Friday, 19 Apr, 2013
I participated in the Janadriyah festival recently. Janadriyah, located twenty-six miles northeast of Riyadh, is the venue for Saudi Arabia's national festival of heritage and cult...
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Friday, 12 Apr, 2013
It seems that time may not be on Iran’s side. Following the breakdown of negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 (the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany...
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International sanctions against the regime in Tehran have not been perfect, but they have worked. The government is starved for cash, and based on recent statements made by high-ra...
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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his faction are preparing for their biggest political fight ever. This time, Ahmadinejad will not face off against the Green reformist opposition ...
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Monday, 18 Mar, 2013
In Iran, when we want to stress someone’s absolute strangeness and unpredictability, we use the word padideh. Padideh means “phenomenon,” but in our oral culture it has anoth...
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Monday, 11 Mar, 2013
As the jewel in a rather unpleasant dictatorship’s crown, Almaty was perhaps a strange choice of venue for the latest round of nuclear talks between the P5+1 and Iran two wee...
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