June 17, 2003 /
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Jon Sawyer
An overflow audience some 300 strong showed up last week at Iran's main teacher training college to discuss a locally produced film from which government censors had made 17 cuts and whose release...
June 16, 2003 /
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Jon Sawyer
After quick victories in Afghanistan and Iraq, U.S. armed forces are suddenly on both sides of Iran's Islamic republic, the country that gave Americans their first taste of Islamic extremism a...
June 15, 2003 /
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Jon Sawyer
Bahman Farmanara, with drooping eyes and a protruding gut, looks less the artiste and more the Hollywood producer he used to be.
June 15, 2003 /
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Jon Sawyer
When American diplomats were taken hostage at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran in November 1979, at the height of the Iranian revolution, one of the most galling aspects for Americans following the drama...
June 14, 2003 /
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Jon Sawyer
Iran's government insists that its nuclear program is peaceful and transparent, but it remains a highly sensitive subject, as a Post-Dispatch reporter discovered last week when he photographed the...
June 14, 2003 /
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Jon Sawyer
Americans tend to think of Iran as a troublemaking sort of place - throwing its weight behind terrorists, seizing U.S. citizens as hostages and forever railing against American values and interests.