Maziar Bahari

The shah jailed my father. Khomeini jailed my sister. Then came my turn to scream.

No one knows how many Iranians have joined the electronic underground. But the Revolutionary Guards aren't having much success shutting it down.

Former Iranian intelligence officials and diplomats claim that the three Americans arrested last year by Iran are the victims of cultural misunderstanding, a factional struggle within the Iranian government, and a combination of geopolitical rivalry and tacit cooperation between Iran and the U.S.

Attacks on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad are coming from unexpected corners. As he arrives in New York to attend the United Nations' General Assembly opening this week, hardliners back home—including some who were once his close allies—are undercutting their former standard-bearer every chance they get.

The hours Sarah Shourd spent between leaving Tehran's notorious Evin Prison, where she was in solitary confinement for more than a year, and crossing Iranian airspace must have been the most excruciating and longest hours of her life. I know that because I have been there.

Human-rights activists have won a partial victory in Iran. In the face of a worldwide outcry, Tehran confirmed late last week that it had suspended a sentence of death by stoning against a woman accused of adultery.

The mothers of two American hikers jailed in Iran's Evin Prison visited London to petition the Islamic Republic's ambassador there. Instead, they got an emotional conversation with NEWSWEEK's Tehran expert—himself a former prisoner in Evin.

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may have hoped to close his yawning deficit—and advance other goals—with a big tax increase on the merchants and shopkeepers in the country's bazaars. But the bazaaris declared a strike for only the second time since they helped bring down the shah in 1979. (The first time was in 2008, when Ahmadinejad made another attempt to raise their taxes.)

The Green Movement's bloody street protests may not have toppled Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei—but they will.

The former presidential candidate on reforming Iran.

I didn't attend my sentencing. In June last year, I was thrown into prison in Iran for 118 days, then finally released and allowed to leave the country in October.

This week, many Iranians will mark the 31st anniversary of the overthrow of the shah with street demonstrations against a regime seen by some as illegitimate.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has finally managed one major accomplishment: forging a consensus among protesters, reformers, and conservatives alike that it's time for him to go.

Montazeri never claimed to be a saint, but the Iranian opposition may well turn him into one.

On June 21, reporter Maziar Bahari was rousted out of bed and taken to Tehran's notorious Evin prison—accused of being a spy for the CIA, MI6, Mossad … and NEWSWEEK. This is the story of his captivity—and of an Iran whose rampant paranoia underpins an ever more fractured regime.

Opposition supporters worry about their movement being hijacked.

Tens of thousands march peacefully in Iran. But in the end, at least one man died a violent death.

Supporters of Mir Hossein Mousavi say their candidate was the victim of electoral fraud.

In a tight election, the country's citizens find their voice.

Disgruntled Iranians say Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has destroyed the country's image and dragged down its economy. Sound familiar?

Iran's very Islamic embrace of science

The unlikely candidacy of Mir Hossein Mousavi.

Iran's ex-president on why change is on the way.

America's old Iran hands on how—and whether—to start the conversation.

Less than six months after the next American president takes office, Iran will hold its own Election Day. To win that race takes not only popular acclaim but the approval of one man—Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei—and so far, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has the edge.

Mehdi Karrubi is the Al Gore of Iran. According to him, but for vote-rigging he would have been the president and not Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The cleric is leader of the National Trust Party, founded after his 2005 defeat, and was a speaker of Iran's Parliament, or Majlis.

President Mohammed Khatami allowed radicalism to tank the reform movement, argues cleric Mehdi Karrubi.

Iran's reformists are fighting an uphill battle just to compete in Iran's upcoming parliamentary ballot. How they hope to defeat Ahmadinejad—eventually.

A former Iranian diplomat discusses nukes, the Holocaust and how Washington can win Tehran's trust.

Why America is losing the 'sticks and stones' battle.