March 2007
Home of the mad mullahs, a President you can frighten your children with and nuclear weapons on the drawing board, if not actually in their bunkers: Iran sends shivers down Washington spines better than any other member of the 'Axis of Evil'. Are these Western stereotypes shameless attempts to prepare the ground for yet another war? Do they have any foundation in reality? The NI looks at Iran's rich history and culture, at human rights in a theocratic state and, above all, at what life is really like for ordinary Iranians.
Although Tajikistan is the heir to an ancient Persian and Turkic cultural legacy, the modern state dates back to 1929 and Stalin’s creation of the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic.
A special feature to mark the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade.