LobeLog |Esfandyar Batmanghelidj: There is a telling line in Thomas Erdbrinks recent report on Irans roiling currency crisis. Erbrink speaks to Kaveh and Reihaneh Taymouri, whose monthly household income fell from about $1,400 to just $90 following the collapse of their small electronics business. Reflecting on her households downfall, Reihaneh Taymouri ...

The Wall Street Journal | Dorothy Rabinowitz: This two-part Frontline documentary is based on the Iran travels of Thomas Erdbrink, longtime Tehran bureau chief for the New York Times, who married an Iranian woman and now considers himself, as he suggests in his narrative, unlikely to want to live anywhere else any time soon. We are quickly ...

The National Interest | PAUL PILLAR: An important consequence of the unrelenting, unqualified hostility toward Iran that Donald Trump has made a centerpiece of his foreign policy is described in anarticleby Thomas Erdbrink of theNew York Timesabout the impact of that policy on the Iranian public. Erdbrink summarizes the overall effect this way: In ...