Iran

The Great Iranian Director Abbas Kiarostami Lost a Home but Gained a Planet

Kiarostami in Exile

The great Iranian director lost a home but gained a planet.

Robert Levinson, Broward Man Who Disappeared in 2007, Hostage Photos Released

Robert Levinson, a Coral Springs private detective, disappeared in March of 2007 while visiting Kish Island in Iran while researching a cigarette-smuggling case. In March of 2011, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced that the U.S. State Department had received indications that Levinson was ... More >>

I'm Not Voting Today, and I Don't Know Why

Today I will not vote. I didn't vote early or by absentee ballot either. I am 29 years old and have never voted. Worst of all, I can't explain why. I'm not a political junkie, but I'm certainly not apathetic or undecided. My blood boiled when Mitt Romney made a joke of climate change during his ... More >>

Mitt Romney's Tie To Iran Contra Scandal

By Penn BullockWas Bain Capital, the company that presidential candidate Mitt Romney started, built with pivotal help from covert Iran-contra operatives? New information uncovered by Miami New Times raises the possibility. The story starts in 1984, when Romney solicited startup money for Bain at a ... More >>

LIVE BLOG: Rumble in Boca 2012, Obama and Romney Presidential Debate!

We're live-blogging tonight's debate right here, on this page. Bookmark the link and follow our updates after the jump. 

Biden, Ryan Battle Over Iran but Steer Clear of Cyberwar

Early in last night's vice presidential debate, questions came up about what to do over Iran's nuclear program. Things got fierce. Biden scrunched his brow and hammered away on Iran's lack of missiles to deliver whatever it enriches and driveled on about diplomacy. Ryan's giant w ... More >>

Should Jews Vote for Romney? Race Card Trumps Israel Card at Boynton Jewish Center Debate

Intratribal conflicts are the worst. A debate on the U.S. presidential election at the Ross Jewish Community Center in West Boynton Beach on August 21 should have been an occasion for reasoned discourse and public enlightenment. Instead, it was a hysterical (in both senses) screamfest, peppered with ... More >>

Allen West Pushing for War, Says "Iran Is as Dangerous as Nazi Germany"

​It's the perfect storm of Allen West talking points: His arguments for war with Iran combine his love of hyperbolic rhetoric (a "second holocaust" is coming), his ardent defense of Israel, his need to disagree with Barack Obama on every possible issue, and his insistence that diplomacy is fo ... More >>

Food Fight: The Great Wars Recreated By Food

D. Sharon Pruitt via FlickrThis proud burger represents our country. ​Here's something that should be shown in every history class in Junior High School - a video representing every war that America's been in from WWII to present day...using food. In this video by Stefan Nadelman entitled Food Fig ... More >>

Allen West Interview: Florida Tea Party Favorite Talks About Islam and Donald Trump (Part 2)

​Read the first installment of the Allen West interview here.New Times: Let's talk about the Ryan budget [introduced by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin)], which you supported in the House. [This proposal was passed by the House and at presstime was awaiting a vote in the Senate, although House leader ... More >>

Finding (Fake?) Love in "Certified Copy"

Copying an Art-House Throwback

"Salam Rugby" Serves as a Good Start to This Year's Women's International Film & Arts Festival

Clinton Gives a Sign That Robert Levinson, Broward Man Who Disappeared in 2007, is Alive

​Robert Levinson's family says that the retired FBI agent was in Iran to investigate a cigarette-smuggling case when he disappeared in Iran in 2007. Since then, his family has urged the Iranian government to cooperate with an investigation, to little avail. No news of his whereabouts or whether he ... More >>

Allen West Back-Pedals; Challenges Me To a Debate

Allen West​Did I call it, or did I call it? Last week, in this very space, I predicted Congressman Allen West would retract his feeble support of the pro-democracy Egyptian protesters when he learned how, very, very much they were disliked by the conservative Israeli punditry. And lookit this! I ... More >>

Town's Website Hacked With Iranian Flag

The official Hillsboro Beach site ​ So, yeah, this is weird. A hacker -- or hackers -- broke into the website for the Town of Hillsboro Beach and put part of the Iranian flag, an image of the country, and the words "MCSM IRAN HACKING" over it. ​ The Sun-Sentinel reports ... More >>

For Coral Springs Family, Every Liberation of Prisoner by Iran Is Bittersweet

Robert Levinson​Like all Americans, the Levinson family of Coral Springs is surely happy to hear of the release by Iranian authorities of Sarah Shourd, who was among three American hikers taken prisoner on espionage charges more than a year ago after they allegedly wandered into Iran.But as the Wa ... More >>

"No One Knows About Persian Cats" Peers Into Life in Iran

Deutch Calls Republican Opponent "Dangerously Misinformed" About Israel

Around 2:45 in the video above, you'll see Republican congressional candidate Edward Lynch make a rather explosive allegation: that the U.S. imposed sanctions against Israel and that the effect of those is tougher than those against Iran.That moment from Sunday's debate on This Week in South Florida ... More >>

Prodigal Offspring

Past all the novelty hits, the SoCal quartet returns with its original fierce punk bite.

Re: Stolen Elections and What Iran Can Learn From South Florida

Flickr User: nekkymomoIran's Foreign Ministry is trying to lure the U.S. into a bigger role in that nation's tempestuous election aftermath by accusing Americans of egging on protests that sparked violence this weekend. [Spokesman Hassan] Qashqavi drew comparisons to American election results. "No o ... More >>

In Iran, the Courage of Muslim Moderates

Flickr User: .faramarzI hope the people behind the April 27 Free Speech Summit in Boca Raton were watching this weekend's protests in Tehran. Being free with speech in that Iranian city means risking a police baton to the chops, or worse. These were Muslims -- thousands upon thousands of them -- bra ... More >>

Iran Releases Journalist; New Hope for Coral Springs Family

Robert LevinsonFor the Levinson family of Coral Springs, it's an auspicious sign: Today's release by the Iranian government of Roxana Saberi, the journalist  imprisoned there on charges of spying, suggests that the Iranian regime can be reasoned with.We wrote last month about how the June presi ... More >>

For Coral Springs Family, Stakes Are High for This Year's Election of the Century

Robert LevinsonThat election is this June in Iran, pitting Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, president of the Religious Neanderthal Republic of Iran, against Mir-Hossein Mousavi, a "reformist" who would moderate some of the nation's hard-line policies on human rights and in international diplomacy. That is, he'd ... More >>

Boca Raton's State Legislators Busy Bustin' Iran's Balls, Un-Killing the Electric Car

flsenate.govDeutchBoca Raton has its own dynamic duo in Tallahassee. There's State Rep. Adam Hasner, the Republican. And there's Sen. Ted Deutch, the Democrat. Based on party affiliation, who would you suppose is the one who wants to play hardball with Iran? And which one is a champion of the electr ... More >>

Letters from the Issue of January 15, 2009

The Agent From Iran

How a mother of two ended up in a plot to smuggle high-tech gear to the enemy

Night-Vision Goggle Lady on Trial

Today is the ninth day that Shahrzad Mir Gholikhan (pictured above), a 31-year-old Iranian woman, has stood in front of a federal jury in Fort Lauderdale wearing brown scrubs and white plastic government-issued flip-flops. In a move that has been described as bold, crazy, or both, the polite, petite ... More >>

Delray's State Senator Will Bring Iran to Its Knees

Mahmad Ahmadinejad had a plan for world domination -- and he woulda got away with it, too, if it weren't that meddling state senator from Delray Beach, Ted Deutch.You see, while reading the Wall Street Journal, Deutch learned of efforts by a Swiss oil company, Vitol, to build a $125 million fuel dep ... More >>

Celebrate the Reagan Years in Style

Elvis Lives! And More!

What Now, Truth Seeker?

Iran, So Far Away

Two Broward restaurants bring Persia back home

Herald Publishes Anonymous Hollywood Letter

Gators Win, Readers Lose

The Sun-Sentinel Error That Won't Die

Kane And Able, Part III

Diana Irey Is Not Irie

Mixed Signals

Tehran Testing

Contra Campaign

An Iran-Contra conspirator joins the Swift Boat crowd. It was bound to happen.

At Home and Abroad

FLIFF warms up with edgy documentaries and a journey to the Thai heart of darkness

Persian Past

Of sand and shahs: Persia visits Delray Beach

Get Shorty

The lunatic fringe lives, breathes, and flourishes on shortwave radio

Bobbing for War

Florida's senator should get out before he gets in

Fair Game

A terrorism survivor and expert digs into the bin Laden dilemma

All Roads Lead To…

Finjan Bar & Grille

Sheer Paradise

The Color of Paradise

A Life of Privilege -- Revoked

Around the World in Ten Days