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    Najmeh Bozorgmehr

    Tehran correspondent

    Najmeh Bozorgmehr is our Tehran Correspondent and has written for the FT since 2000. She covers Iran and its complicated politics and economy as well as social and cultural developments. She has been working as a journalist since 1997.
    Email Najmeh Bozorgmehr @Najmeh_Tehran  on Twitter (link opens in a new browser window)

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    • Sunday, 24 September, 2023
      News in-depthIran
      ‘Robots can help issue a fatwa’: Iran’s clerics look to harness AI

      Religious leaders in the holy city of Qom believe that artificial intelligence can strengthen the country’s Islamic character

      A Muslim Shiite cleric walks past the house of the late founder of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, in the holy city of Qom
    • Tuesday, 19 September, 2023
      US-Iran tensions
      Iran nuclear crisis lingers for White House despite prisoner swap

      More diplomacy possible in New York this week, but rivals must overcome decades of distrust

      US nationals Siamak Namazi, Emad Sharqi, and Morad Tahbaz, who were among five prisoners released from Iran, disembark from a plane upon landing in Doha, Qatar
    • Sunday, 10 September, 2023
      Middle Eastern politics & society
      UAE boosts trade with Iran after eased restrictions on business activity

      Flourishing relationship reflects Gulf state’s pivot towards regional de-escalation

      Shipping containers at Khalifa port
    • Sunday, 3 September, 2023
      Iran
      Iran cracks down on dissent as protest movement anniversary looms

      Activists say authorities want to discourage gatherings marking the death of Mahsa Amini in police custody

    • Thursday, 17 August, 2023
      Iran
      Iran grapples with unintended consequences of ultra-cheap petrol

      Authorities under pressure to remove expensive subsidies that keep fuel prices as low as $0.03 a litre

      A customer refuels her car at a petrol station in Tehran, Iran
    • Thursday, 10 August, 2023
      US-Iran tensions
      Iran transfers five imprisoned Americans to house arrest

      Washington expected to release $6bn of Tehran’s frozen money in diplomatic breakthrough

      A prison guard stands along a corridor in Tehran’s Evin prison
    • Wednesday, 2 August, 2023
      Iran
      Iranian businesses under pressure to enforce hijab rules

      Shops and offices face temporary shutdowns for allowing female staff and customers to eschew head coverings

      A young woman walks in a Tehran bazaar without the compulsory head covering
    • Friday, 28 July, 2023
      Sweden
      Sweden braces for backlash after Koran protests

      Prime minister warns of increased risk as police decide whether to allow demonstrations to go ahead

    • Sunday, 16 July, 2023
      Iran
      Iran to resume hijab patrols after protests over death in custody

      Islamic republic threatens renewed enforcement by morality police 10 months after Mahsa Amini lost her life

      A Tehran street on Sunday
    • Thursday, 13 July, 2023
      Middle Eastern politics & society
      Iran’s relationship with alcohol is reaching a tipping point

      An artist’s death has raised questions about the dangers of the black market for liquor

      Iranians pour bottles of alcohol into a fountain in Washington, DC
    • Sunday, 9 July, 2023
      News in-depthIran
      Iranians turn to small acts of defiance to keep protest flame burning

      Marking the birthdays of those who died is just one way that the ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’ movement is being kept alive

      a demonstrator raises his arms and makes the victory sign during a protest for Mahsa Amini, a woman who died after being arrested by the Islamic republic’s ‘morality police’, in Tehran in September 2022
    • Friday, 7 July, 2023
      Iran
      Nationalism takes centre stage as Iran’s Revolutionary Guards make theatrical debut

      Elite force finances lavish production of Iranian classic as Islamic republic looks to arts to achieve political goals

      A scene from ‘The Seven Quests of Esfandiyar’
    • Tuesday, 20 June, 2023
      The Big Read
      Can Iran’s march to nuclear statehood be halted?

      As the Islamic republic enriches uranium to higher levels than ever, western diplomats try to reignite talks

      Montage image of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, IR-6 centrifuges, the IAEA logo and the Iranian flag
    • Saturday, 17 June, 2023
      Middle Eastern politics & society
      Saudi Arabia invites Iranian president to visit in latest sign of rapprochement

      Foreign ministers meet in Tehran in first visit by senior Saudi official for two decades

    • Monday, 12 June, 2023
      Iran
      Iran’s car sector buckles under impact of sanctions

      Vehicles are in short supply and prices are high as country’s biggest non-energy industry struggles to source crucial inputs

      The production line in Iran Khodro Car Factory
    • Friday, 2 June, 2023
      Iran nuclear deal
      West resumes talks over how to deal with Iran nuclear crisis

      Diplomatic shift comes amid fears Tehran’s expansive programme risks regional war

      People walk in street in Tehran
    • Friday, 26 May, 2023
      Iran
      Belgian aid worker and Iranian diplomat freed in prisoner swap deal

      Olivier Vandecasteele and Asadollah Asadi were released on Friday as part of a trade mediated by Oman

      Demonstrators hold placards of the detained Belgian aid worker Olivier Vandecasteele
    • Sunday, 21 May, 2023
      Iran
      ‘We need to put a brake on’: Iran’s hijab turmoil unsettles religious conservatives

      Some worry that further loosening of rules will sow division and erode country’s identity

      A protester cuts her hair at a demonstration
    • Friday, 19 May, 2023
      Iran
      Iran executes three men over last year’s anti-regime protests

      Hangings carried out in defiance of international calls for leniency

      Saleh Mirhashemi, on trial in Isfahan
    • Wednesday, 3 May, 2023
      Iran
      Iran’s president visits Syria as he seeks to bolster Tehran’s sway over ally

      Islamic republic pushes for ‘upper hand’ in war-torn country’s reconstruction

      Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi speaks during an open session of parliament
    • Monday, 1 May, 2023
      Iran
      Iran keeps inflation data under wraps as economic crisis deepens

      Government accused of concealing evidence that prices are spiralling to record levels

      Iranians shop in a market in Tehran
    • Friday, 28 April, 2023
      US-Iran tensions
      US seizure of oil vessel triggered Iran tanker capture

      Authorities in US redirected ship of Iranian oil bound for China in recent days, prompting retaliation from Tehran

      A US Navy drone boat and US coast guard cutter John Scheuerman in the Strait of Hormuz
    • Thursday, 27 April, 2023
      US-Iran tensions
      Iran seizes US-bound oil tanker in Gulf of Oman

      The Advantage Sweet had sailed from Kuwait and was taken from international waters

      The Advantage Sweet at sea
    • Wednesday, 12 April, 2023
      OutlookIran
      Rising temperatures in Iran heat up arguments over women’s dress

      The fight over the hijab is moving to other forms of clothing as summer approaches and hardliners sweat

      Women browse clothing at the Grand Bazaar in Tehran
    • Thursday, 6 April, 2023
      Saudi Arabia
      Saudi Arabia and Iran hold meeting in Beijing as China expands its influence

      Middle Eastern rivals vow to ‘expand co-operation’ months after Chinese president’s visit to kingdom

      Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, Qin Gang and Prince Faisal bin Farhan al-Saud
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