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Borzou Daragahi, Bureau Chief
Borzou Daragahi previously served as bureau chief in Baghdad where he led the team that won a 2006 Overseas Press Club award and was recognized as a 2007 Pulitzer Prize finalist in international reporting. Before joining the Times in 2005, he covered war, politics, culture and commerce in the Middle East for various print and broadcast outlets. He was a 2005 Pulitzer Prize finalist in international reporting for his coverage of Iraq. He graduated with honors from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and received an undergraduate degree from the Eugene Lang College of the New School for Social Research. Born in Iran, he grew up in the Chicago area and New York City. He speaks Farsi, Spanish and German. EMAILAli Akbar Velayati warns against 'provocative' statements on the nuclear dispute, apparently in reference to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his loyalists.
A military official is quoted as saying Tehran would respond to a confrontation over its nuclear program.
Changing social values and economic realities, along with demographic shifts, are among the reasons, observers in the Arab world say.
A European incentive proposal includes an offer for a six-week period for preliminary talks to resolve the nuclear standoff if Tehran refrains from increasing its enrichment capacity.
The Islamic Republic appears likely to reject the new package of economic and political inducements from Europe, Russia, China and the U.S.
COLUMN ONE
The 10-year-old was married off to a man in his 30s who abused her. She made her way to a courthouse, found a lawyer and broke free.
The former army chief of staff takes over a country torn between U.S.-Saudi support and Hezbollah.
In a well-publicized tour of his country's neighbor, President Ahmadinejad smiles and spreads his message across Baghdad: America doesn't belong here; Iran does.
Tehran maintains that nothing more than routine contact occurred in the strait.
The power of Shiite Muslim clergy has eroded in favor of various competing groups within a unique religious, civil, social and bureaucratic framework.
Pointing to the conclusion that Tehran's secret nuclear arms program halted years ago, officials ask Washington to apologize.
COLUMN ONE
Of Iran's 27,000 attorneys, perhaps no more than 100 take politically charged cases. They brave insults, assaults and jail.
