Learn where Sunni and Shia Muslims live with this map of the Islamic world.

Link to more information about Iran.

Coming to Iran from the West can give you a superior air of arrogance, something I was guilty of myself.

Read about the press and politics in a changing Iran in the Handbook.

Iran has two governments. One is a functioning democracy, complete with elections, a feisty press, and a cadre of reformist politicians. The other is a narrow-minded clique of mullahs.

Judith Kipper discusses Iran with anchor Bill Moyers.

(September 23, 2004) Twenty-five years after the Islamic Revolution in Iran, the struggle for political reform is the big story. With rare access, WIDE ANGLE films behind the scenes with the young reporters of one of Iran's leading reformist newspapers.

Explore Iran's Persian legacy in the Photo Essay.

A history of Iran from 1921-2005.

Map of Shia holy sites.

A timeline of the drug trade in Columbia.