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City Life - War has already been declared in Iran — between Coca-Cola and the theocrats

The Shah is Dead. Long live the Shah — and I don’t mean Reza Pahlavi, the 45-year-old pretender to his late father’s Peacock Throne, whom many in Washington would like to install atop this most vexatious nation

Out of Iran

Squeezed between the mullahs and George W. Bush, and with war and a nuclear future looming, many moderate Iranian families are planning their escape

Access of Evil

It's difficult enough getting into the secretive theocracy that is Iran, but once inside, you enter a world locked in the past and riddled with corruption and cronyism

Lost in translation

Cold, lonely, annoyed, uninformed and without toiletries in the heart of the Axis of Evil

In search of Corporate Iran and a Coca-Cola

Corporate Iran - now there's a term you don't see that often

Iran's cola war

Sanctions? Coke and Pepsi found a way around them and are battling for market share in Tehran with local Zamzam Cola

Iran's car industry stuck in 1970s gear

Petrol's cheap and business is booming. But US sanctions still hurt

Made in Iran

Whether or not Iran is building nuclear weapons, its auto industry, the largest in the Middle East, is learning how to cope with privation—and planning for worse.

Tehran’s top banker looks to the future

Ebrahim Sheibany is governor of Iran’s central bank, a position he has held for three years. He tells Eric Ellis in Tehran that as far as economic policy is concerned, little has changed, despite the election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as president