Iran: a decade in 300 articles

The following 300 articles are selected out of 1200 pieces published on Iran while working as the Guardian’s Iran correspondent between 2009 and 2019. A selection of 70 articles mainly on cultural and social affairs (not included below) are listed in a separate page, titled “Learn about Iran in 70 articles”. To read on the topics I write about these days in the Guardian, follow my profile page. 

• ‘People are despairing’: Iranians brace for sanctions to bite – November 2018
• Iran braces for fresh US sanctions including oil embargo – November 2018
• Concern over UK-based Iranian TV channel’s links to Saudi Arabia – October 2018
• ‘Iran was like hell’: the young refugees starting new lives in Serbia – September 2018
• Terrorists kill Iranian children and soldiers in military parade attack – September 2018
• Jailed dual nationals may be victims of Iranian agents’ rivalry – September 2018
• Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe collapses in prison after panic attack – August 2018
• Iranian activist jailed over hijab protests goes on hunger strike – August 2018
• ‘A matter of life and death’: Iranians despair as US sanctions bite – August 2018
• EU concerned over detention of human rights lawyer in Iran – August 2018
• ‘Desperate to find a way out’: Iran edges towards precipice – July 2018
• Iran dismisses Trump’s late-night Twitter rant despite market jitters – July 2018
• Who is the Iranian group targeted by bombers and beloved of Trump allies? – July 2018
• Woman arrested in Iran over Instagram video of her dancing – July 2018
• Sunset at Persepolis: Iranians fear Trump has killed tourism boom – May 2018
• What is the Iran deal and why does Trump want to scrap it? – May 2018
• Iran arrests British Council employee as she visits home country – May 2018
• Mummified body found in Iran could be of ex-ruler Reza Shah – April 2018
• Video of Iran ‘morality police’ wrestling with woman sparks outrage – April 2018
• Iranian rial hits all-time low as citizens scramble for US dollars – April 2018
• Let grieving wife of dead environmentalist leave Iran, son pleads – April 2018
• Iran sentences Tehran professor to jail for ‘anti-state propaganda’ – March 2018
• Nearly half of US arms exports go to the Middle East – March 2018
• Louvre show opens in Tehran as cultural diplomacy thrives – March 2018
• Iran’s foreign minister accuses Europe of appeasing Trump – March 2018
• Iranian intellectuals call for referendum amid political unrest – February 2018
• Treatment of Zaghari-Ratcliffe amounts to torture, say family – February 2018
• Iranian academics demand answers from president over death of activist – February 2018
• Hassan Rouhani proposes referendum to heal Iran’s divisions – February 2018
• Second woman arrested in Tehran for hijab protest – January 2018
• Iranian protester who died in custody ‘was forced to take pills’ – January 2018
• Iran’s easing of drug laws could halt execution of 5,000 prisoners – January 2018
• Iran reopens investigation into Rafsanjani death – January 2018
• Iran protests: deaths in custody spark human rights concerns – January 2018
• More protesters killed in Iran as Rouhani’s plea fails to dampen unrest – January 2018
• Rouhani acknowledges Iranian discontent as protests continue – December 2017
• Iranian protests are complex jigsaw puzzle, say observers – December 2017
• Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s husband ‘biting his nails’ over Johnson Iran visit – December 2017
• Johnson under fresh pressure over Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe error – November 2017
• Iran’s president says Saudi Arabia behind ‘hostility’ in region – November 2017
• Iran’s supreme leader dismisses Trump’s ‘rants and whoppers’ – October 2017
• Iranian journalist loses eye ‘after cancer was left untreated in jail’ – September 2017
• Iranian MPs speak out as women are barred from World Cup qualifier – September 2017
• Iran opposition leader begins hunger strike to demand public trial – August 2017
• Iran freezes assets of BBC Persian staff in crackdown on journalists – August 2017
• Trump’s targeting of Revolutionary Guards is a step too far for Iran – October 2017
• Iranian cancer researcher sent home after being denied entry in Boston – July 2017
• Iranian cancer researcher detained at Boston airport despite valid visa – July 2017
• British-Iranian woman jailed in Tehran in state of ‘despair’ – July 2017
• Hassan Rouhani takes oath for second term with swipe at Trump – August 2017
• Iran’s president under pressure to appoint female ministers – August 2017
• Iranian artist to attend Edinburgh book festival after visa volte-face – July 2017
• Acclaimed Iranian artist refused visa to attend Edinburgh book festival – July 2017
• Iran sentences Chinese-born American to 10 years in jail on spying charges – July 2017
• Hossein Fereidoun, brother of Iran’s president, is arrested – July 2017
• Iran foreign minister: ‘shameful’ travel ban targets ‘Iranian grandmothers’ – June 2017
• Iran’s president heckled at rally after criticism by supreme leader – June 2017
• Iran nuclear chief warns US over support for Saudi Arabia – June 2017
• Rift between Iran’s ayatollah and re-elected president widens – June 2017
• Iran targets ‘terrorists’ in missile strike on Isis-held Syrian town – June 2017
• What’s in a ring? Iran’s Khamenei sends mixed election messages – May 2017
• Iranian film director Farhadi endorses Rouhani for president – May 2017
• Hassan Rouhani’s attacks on rivals for president cross Iran’s red lines – May 2017
• Revolutionary guards tried to sabotage Iran’s nuclear deal, says president – May 2017
• Placeholder candidate in Iranian election overshadows Rouhani – May 2017
• UK bank accounts of Iranian customers still being closed, says law firm – April 2017
• Iran disqualifies Ahmadinejad from bid to regain presidency – April 2017
• Iran chides US over ‘worn out’ accusations about nuclear deal – April 2017
• Hassan Rouhani faces tough re-election race as candidate list closes – April 2017
• Conservative cleric Ebrahim Raisi enters Iran’s presidential race – April 2017
• Trump travel ban will hit Iranian critics of regime hardest, analysts warn – March 2017
• Ahmadinejad and Trump on Twitter are a match made in heaven – March 2017
• Iranians turn out in force for rallies after call for Trump response – February 2017
• US travel ban leaves Iranian LGBT refugees in limbo – February 2017
• Tehran fire: dozens of firefighters feared dead as tower collapses – January 2017
• Rare show of dissent in Iran as millions mourn ex-president Rafsanjani – January 2017
• Ebrahim Raisi: Iranian cleric emerging as a frontrunner for supreme leader – January 2017
• Iran’s former president Rafsanjani dies aged 82 – January 2017
• Iranian-Americans join tug-of-war for Trump’s ear over nuclear deal – January 2017
• Nobel laureate calls on head of Iranian judiciary to quit – January 2017
• Iranians stranded by US ban tell of jobs at risk and families in disarray – January 2017
• Iranian Oscar contender: I’ll boycott awards over Trump’s ‘racist’ visa ban – January 2017
• Silencing of journalist draws huge backlash from Iranian public – November 2016
• Former Iranian prosecutor sentenced to 135 lashes for corruption – November 2016
• British-Iranian woman jailed in Tehran attends appeals court – January 2017
• West’s failure to reconnect Iran to banks ‘risks breaching nuclear deal’ – October 2016
• Iran rocked by abuse allegations against top Qur’an reciter – October 2016
• Top Iranian students risk losing funding over US and Canadian visa delays – October 2016
• Iranian Americans sentenced to prison for work with ‘hostile’ government – October 2016
• Ban Ki-moon troubled by lack of progress on human rights in Iran – October 2016
• Ahmadinejad blocked from running in Iran presidential elections – September 2016
• West failing to deliver nuclear deal promises, says Iran vice-president – September 2016
• Only two female Asiatic cheetahs remain in wild in Iran – August 2016
• Iranian judicial authorities attempt arrest of MP – November 2016
• Iran executes nuclear scientist who returned to country from US – August 2016
• British-Iranian woman held in Iran appears in court for first time – August 2016
• Fury erupts in Iran over vast salaries paid to government officials – June 2016
• Academics urge Rouhani to speak out over house arrests of Iranian critics – June 2016
• Iran bars female MP for ‘shaking hands with unrelated man’ – April 2016
• UN condemns 16-year jail sentence for Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi – May 2016
• Iran still locked out of global financial system, says central bank chief – May 2016
• Rafsanjani daughter criticised for meeting leader of banned minority – May 2016
• Iran arrests models in renewed crackdown on unlicensed industry – May 2016
• How Iran’s Hassan Rouhani found his voice three years into office – May 2016
• Tehran court jails three Iranian journalists for spreading propaganda – April 2016
• Iran denying medical care to political prisoners, activists say – April 2016
• Iran: seven key human rights challenges facing President Rouhani – March 2016
• Iran set to elect record number of women into parliament – February 2016
• Reformist-backed candidates in Tehran sweep to election victories – February 2016
• Visit by Iran’s foreign minister shows ‘warming’ relations with UK – February 2016
• Iran president says Tehran ready to ‘turn the page’ as he renews relations – January 2016
• Trade talks and nostalgia as Hassan Rouhani returns to France – January 2016
• Hassan Rouhani in first Europe visit by Iranian president in 16 years – January 2016
• Europe’s big banks remain wary of doing business with Iran – January 2016
• Iran vice-president hails new era after removal of sanctions – January 2016
• Iran capitalises on sanctions removal with slew of deals – January 2016
• Rouhani hails ‘turning point’ as Iran embraces post-sanctions era – January 2016
• Iran releases Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian in prisoner swap – January 2016
• ‘We’re desperate to see change’: Tehran upbeat as sanctions end – January 2016
• Revolutionary Guards release 10 US sailors who entered Iranian waters – January 2016
• Rouhani races to implement deal with eye on Iran elections bounce – January 2016
• Sanctions against Iran lifted after compliance with nuclear deal – January 2016
• Iran accuses Saudi Arabia of airstrikes on its embassy in Yemen – January 2016
• Iran scores own goal in wake of Saudi Arabia executions – January 2016
• Khomeini’s reformist grandson follows ayatollah’s footsteps into politics – December 2015
• Iranian newspaper condemns censorship in rare front-page editorial – December 2015
• Iran hardliners close concerts in challenge to president – December 2015
• Rouhani reintroduces Iran to Europe in wake of nuclear deal – November 2015
• Afghan refugees in Iran being sent to fight and die for Assad in Syria – November 2015
• Poets lobby Iran to pardon pair convicted of insulting religion – November 2015
• Iran’s Ayatollah clarifies that ‘death to America’ slogan refers to policies – November 2015
• Iranian parliament passes bill approving nuclear deal – October 2015
• Jason Rezaian conviction: ‘outrageous injustice’ – October 2015
• Senior Iranian commander killed in Syria – October 2015
• Iran threatens Frankfurt book fair boycott over Rushdie speech – October 2015
• Iranian death sentence commuted to two years’ theology study – September 2015
• Iran foreign minister criticised for handshake with ‘Great Satan’ Obama – September 2015
• Iran rushes to meet terms of nuclear deal to lift sanctions – September 2015
• Swiss firm opens Airbnb-style service in Iran – September 2015
• Husband bars Iranian footballer from Asian championships – September 2015
• Iran’s Rouhani urged to release student activist Bahareh Hedayat – September 2015
• Barenboim to take Berlin orchestra to Iran despite protests from Israel – August 2015
• Prominent Iranians launch campaign calling on Congress not to kill Iran deal – August 2015
• Scientists in Iran clone endangered mouflon – born to domestic sheep – August 2015
• Iran uses fabricated WikiLeaks cable to smear UN rights rapporteur – August 2015
• Sami Yusuf’s music banned in Iran after Nazareth concert – July 2015
• Hassan Rouhani urged to follow deal success with human rights progress – July 2015
• Western businesses eye Iran after UN backs nuclear deal – July 2015
• Tourism to Iran set to rise sharply after nuclear deal – July 2015
• Police unusually tolerant as Iran celebrates deal with song and dance – July 2015
• Iran nuclear deal: supreme leader makes supreme decision – July 2015
• Iranian actor apologises after tweeting support for US gay marriage ruling – July 2015
• What we talk about when we talk about Iran – June 2015
• Activists and artists hit by new wave of harsh sentencing by Iran judiciary – June 2015
• Tehran auction shifts millions of pounds worth of art in spite of sanctions – June 2015
• France: no Iran nuclear deal if military site inspections are blocked – May 2015
• Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian goes on trial in Iran for spying – May 2015
• Iranian painter and women’s rights activist on trial for insulting MPs – May 2015
• Iranian foreign minister angers supporters with human rights claim – May 2015
• Gained in translation: Obama’s Persian language spokesman wins fans – April 2015
• Iran to appoint first female ambassador since Islamic revolution – April 2015
• Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei: no guarantee of final nuclear deal – April 2015
• Iranian president hails start of ‘new page’ for country after nuclear deal – April 2015
• Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator receives hero’s welcome in Tehran – April 2015
• Iranians celebrate nuclear deal: ‘This will bring hope to our life’ – April 2015
• British-Iranian woman jailed over volleyball game sees charges dropped – April 2015
• Iranians hold their breath for a nuclear deal with the west – March 2015
• UN to fund Iran anti-drugs programme despite executions of offenders – March 2015
• Jason Rezaian caught in feud between Rouhani and Iran hardliners – March 2015
• Iranian professor loses job due to ‘feminine’ voice – March 2015
• Iran aims to ban vasectomies and cut access to contraceptives – March 2015
• Eye for an eye: Iran blinds acid attacker – March 2015
• Rouhani: people are too clever to listen to ‘war-mongering’ Netanyahu – March 2015
• Iranian media banned from mentioning ex-president Khatami – February 2015
• Top Iranian general killed in Israeli attack in Syria – January 2015
• Iran: threat of lashes or fine for walking the dog – November 2014
• Acid attacks in Isfahan have nothing to do with the hijab, say officials – October 2014
• Qassem Suleimani photo makeover reveals Iran’s new publicity strategy – October 2014
• Leaders of UK and Iran meet for first time since 1979 Islamic revolution – September 2014
• Iran’s Hassan Rouhani has to weigh every step at United Nations – September 2014
• Rouhani’s credibility under scrutiny at UN as hardliners block reforms – September 2014
• Iranian Pharrell Williams fans behind Happy video sentenced – September 2014
• Washington Post reporter facing interrogation as Iranian, minister says – September 2014
• Iran detains UK citizen over ban on women watching sports – September 2014
• Iranian president tweets bare-headed photo of Maryam Mirzakhani – August 2014
• Six judges accused of leading role in Iranian crackdown on free speech – July 2014
• Washington Post’s Tehran reporter and three other journalists arrested in Iran – July 2014
• Iran reformist leader’s hopes depend on nuclear talks in Vienna – July 2014
• Iranian reporter sentenced to two years in prison and 50 lashes – July 2014
• Iranian students blocked from UK Stem courses due to US sanctions – June 2014
• Iranian child bride faces execution for killing the man she was forced to marry – June 2014
• Iran’s Rouhani locks horns with hardliners over path to paradise – June 2014
• Why Canada is getting it wrong on Iran – May 2014
• UK calls on Iran to free jailed Bahá’ís and halt destruction of faith’s cemetery – May 2014
• Mir Hossein Mousavi photograph emerges in Iran – May 2014
• It is time Rouhani broke his silence on human rights abuses in Iran – April 2014
• Iranian mother who spared her son’s killer: ‘Vengeance has left my heart’ – April 2014
• Iranian prisoners allegedly forced to run gauntlet of armed guards – April 2014
• Iranian killer’s execution halted at last minute by victim’s parents – April 2014
• Iranians sue UK banks over closed accounts, claiming racial discrimination – March 2014
• Reza Barati’s family: ‘We want answers. What did they do to him?’ – February 2014
• Iranian activist Mohammad Nurizad attacked and arrested – February 2014
• Iran’s queen of pop promotes gay rights in new music video – February 2014
• Iran opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi remains under house arrest – February 2014
• Iranian stars petition UN over medicine shortages – January 2014
• Iranian city picks Islamic republic’s first female minority ethnic mayor – December 2013
• Britain makes first diplomatic visit to Iran for two years – December 2013
• Mohammad Javad Zarif: Iran’s man on a diplomatic mission – November 2013
• Iran’s leaders and public celebrate Geneva nuclear deal – November 2013
• Iran’s nuclear deal-maker keeps Twitter and the ayatollah happy – November 2013
• Iranian activist criticises French stance in nuclear talks – November 2013
• Iranians bewildered after French torpedo Geneva nuclear entente – November 2013
• Rouhani’s diplomatic progress in Geneva keeps Iran’s hardliners at bay – November 2013
• Iran and west to begin drafting nuclear deal after Geneva negotiations – November 2013
• Iran’s artists warn US and European sanctions are affecting their work – October 2013
• Iran opens doors to tourists as Rouhani fosters thaw in relations – October 2013
• Journalist still in jail after disproving Ahmadinejad’s denial of gay Iranians – October 2013
• Obama and Rouhani’s telephone call of huge significance, says deputy – October 2013
• Iranian president Hassan Rouhani recognises ‘reprehensible’ Holocaust – September 2013
• Rouhani’s visit to UN is unique chance for west and Iran, says Khatami – September 2013
• Hassan Rouhani to take Iran’s only Jewish member of parliament to UN – September 2013
• Iran frees political prisoners ahead of Hassan Rouhani’s UN visit – September 2013
• Iran hints at nuclear compromise – September 2013
• Shirin Gerami becomes first female triathlete to compete for Iran – September 2013
• Iran allows first female triathlete to compete for country – September 2013
• CIA admits role in 1953 Iranian coup – August 2013
• Iran’s political prisoners plead with Obama to end ‘crippling’ US sanctions – August 2013
• David Cameron writes to Iran’s new president in attempt to mend relations – August 2013
• Iran ready to talk if US shows ‘goodwill’, says new president – August 2013 
• Hassan Rouhani sworn in as president of Iran, urging moderation – August 2013
• Former Iran ambassador to UN tipped to become foreign minister – July 2013
• Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf defends Israel visit after outcry – July 2013
• Iran listens for Mohammad-Reza Shajarian, the lost voice of Ramadan – July 2013 
• Mahmoud Ahmadinejad summoned to criminal court – June 2013
• Iran: Hassan Rouhani wins presidential election – June 2013
• Iranian cleric Hassan Rouhani elected as president – June 2013
• Iran elections: former presidents endorse moderate Hassan Rouhani – June 2013
• Iran election: Rafsanjani blocked from running for president – May 2013
• Ahmadinejad looks to make confidant his successor as Iran race starts – May 2013
• Ermia – the talent show winner giving voice to Iran’s disenfranchised many – March 2013
• Surgeons struggle in Iran as sanctions squeeze drug supplies – March 2013
• Bahá’í student expelled from Iranian university ‘on grounds of religion’ – February 2013
• Call for Iran to end house arrest of opposition leaders – February 2013
• Elite Iranian general assassinated near Syria-Lebanon border – February 2013 
• Iran broadcasts footage ‘extracted from CIA spy drone’ – February 2013
• Mahmoud Ahmadinejad issues challenge to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei – February 2013
• Iran creates fake blogs in smear campaign against journalists in exile – January 2013
• Iranian blogger’s mother accuses authorities of killing him – November 2012
• Haemophiliac Iranian boy ‘dies after sanctions disrupt medicine supplies’ – November 2012
• Iranian Facebook activist Sattar Beheshti feared dead in custody – November 2012
• Iranian film shines spotlight on taboo subject of transsexuals – November 2012
• Iran sanctions ‘putting millions of lives at risk’ – October 2012
• As sanctions bite, supreme leader may finally have to learn to compromise – October 2012
• Iran currency crisis sparks Tehran street clashes – October 2012
• Iran’s currency hits all-time low as western sanctions take their toll – October 2012 
• Iranian president takes last stand at UN – September 2012
• Rafsanjani under pressure after children are jailed – September 2012
• Canada cuts diplomatic ties with Iran – September 2012
• Iranian activist Zhila Bani-Yaghoub packs her bags and heads to prison – September 2012
• Sanctions on Iran: ‘ordinary people are the target’ – August 2012
• Iran steps up crackdown against its Arab minority – July 2012
• Meet four-year-old Rojan, victim of UK’s frosty relations with Iran – June 2012
• Iran arrests suspects over nuclear scientists’ deaths – June 2012
• Iran’s persecution of gay community revealed – May 2012
• Iranian rapper faces death threats and fatwa for ‘blasphemous’ song – May 2012
• Iranian MP withdraws complaint against cartoonist after outcry – May 2012
• Iranian lawyer Mohammad Ali Dadkhah sentenced to nine years in jail – May 2012
• Iranian human rights activist Narges Mohammadi arrested – April 2012 
• Iran steps up crackdown on journalists and activists – March 2012 
• Iran election: Khatami’s vote sparks claims of betrayal – March 2012
• Iran conducts ‘grossly unfair’ election amid sanctions and threat of war – March 2012
• Oscar success of A Separation celebrated back home in Iran – February 2012
• Backlash as Iran hardliners label Oscar favourite a ‘dirty picture’ – February 2012
• Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called to account before Iranian parliament – February 2012
• Iranian nuclear chemist killed by motorbike assassins – January 2012
• Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani could be hanged in Iran – December 2011
• Iran to exhibit US and Israeli spy drones – December 2011
• Iran criticised over capital punishment ‘killing spree’ – December 2011
• Britain withdraws diplomats from Iran after embassy attack – November 2011
• Iran ‘harassing’ relatives of journalists working for BBC Persian Television – October 2011
• Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi jailed for 11 years – September 2011
• Iran frees US hikers held as spies – September 2011
• Iranian greens fear disaster as Lake Orumieh shrinks – September 2011
• Iranian doctor murdered after examining rape victims, says his son – August 2011
• Man pleads guilty to assassinating Iranian nuclear scientist – August 2011
• Hikers in Iran ‘espionage’ case jailed for eight years – August 2011
• Iranian youths arrested for public water pistol fight in Tehran – August 2011
• Iranian woman blinded by acid attack pardons assailant as he faces same fate – July 2011
• Mahmoud Ahmadinejad faces impeachment threat – June 2011
• Iranian opposition figure dies of heart attack while on hunger strike – June 2011
• Iranian activist dies at father’s funeral – June 2011
• Iranian presidential aide arrested – May 2011
• Ahmadinejad’s enemies scent blood in Iran power struggle – May 2011
• Ahmadinejad fights to preserve his dwindling power – May 2011
• Ahmadinejad allies charged with sorcery – May 2011
• Ahmadinejad grooms chief-of-staff to take over as Iran’s president – April 2011
• Iran’s former president Rafsanjani steps down from assembly role – March 2011
• Iran protests see reinvigorated activists take to the streets in thousands – February 2011
• Iran protester’s death ‘hijacked by regime’ – February 2011
• Iranian opposition leader under house arrest after protests call – February 2011
• Iran broadcasts ‘confession’ of man it says was part of assassination plot – January 2011
• Iran jails human rights lawyer for 11 years – January 2011
• Iran jails director Jafar Panahi and stops him making films for 20 years – December 2010
• Don’t forget Iran’s political prisoners – December 2010 
• Iran to step up protection of nuclear scientists after assassination – December 2010
• Iran executes woman accused of murdering lover’s wife – December 2010
• Iran sanctions strengthen Ahmadinejad regime, says Karroubi – August 2010
• Campaign for Iranian woman facing death by stoning – July 2010 
• Iran’s defiant Green movement vows to fight on – June 2010
• Students in Iran: ‘I will get martyred friend’s vote back, even if I die’ – June 2009
• Iran elections: Khamenei calls for calm as unrest grows – June 2009 – June 2009
• Iran elections: protesters killed as uprising turns bloody – June 2009
• Iran protests: they came to demand justice but then the shots rang out – June 2009
• Iran: 12 students reported killed in crackdown after violent clashes – June 2009
• Iran elections: Mousavi lodges appeal against Ahmadinejad victory – June 2009
• Iran sees second day of clashes as anger rises over elections – June 2009
• Iran elections: Supreme leader to speak out as silent, angry protests continue – June 2009
• Iranians can’t believe it – June 2009
• Riots erupt in Tehran over ‘stolen’ election – June 2009
• Riding Mousavi’s ‘campaign tsunami’ – June 2009
• Ahmadinejad loses the great debate – June 2009
• Iran’s alternative election campaigns – May 2009
• The gag is tightened – January 2008
• Iranian regime penalises university activists – April 2007
• Iran’s big brother for bloggers – June 2007
• A country suffering from cultural silence – October 2006