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N ieman ReportsTHE NIEMAN FOUNDATION FOR JOURNALISM AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY VOL. 63 NO. 2 SUMMER 20094Iran: Can Its Stories Be Told?Treatment of Journalists5 Understanding Iran: Reporters Who Do Are Exiled, Pressured or Jailed |By Iason Athanasiadis7 Journalism in a Semi-Despotic Society | Byline Withheld9 An Essay in Words and Photographs: Peering Inside Contemporary Iran |By Iason Athanasiadis14 When Eyes Get Averted: The Consequences of Misplaced Reporting |By Roya Hakakian15 Imprisoning Journalists Silences Others | By D. Parvaz17 ‘We Know Where You Live’ | By Maziar Bahari20 An Essay in Words and Photographs: A Visual Witness to Iran’s Revolution |By Reza26 Film in Iran: The Magazine and the Movies | By Houshang GolmakaniWomen Reporters, Women’s Stories28 Your Eyes Say That You Have Cried | By Masoud Behnoud29 Telling the Stories of Iranian Women’s Lives | By Shahla Sherkat30 Iranian Journalist: A Job With Few Options | By Roza EftekhariView From the West32 Seven Visas = Continuity of Reporting From Iran | By Barbara Slavin34 No Man’s Land Inside an Iranian Police Station | By Martha Raddatz35 The Human Lessons: They Lie at the Core of Reporting in Iran | By Laura Secor38 Iran: News Happens, But Fewer Journalists Are There to Report It | By Mark Seibel40 When the Predictable Overtakes the Real News About Iran | By Scheherezade FaramarziCover: Waving hello or goodbye?Iranian Presidential candidate MahmoudAhmadinejad in an electionposter from 2005 in the conservativeSouth Tehran district of Meidan-eShush. Ahmadinejad’s working-class,pious background and his experienceas mayor of Tehran allowed him tosweep most of the capital’s districtsin that election. Photo and caption byIason Athanasiadis.Nieman Reports Onlinewww.niemanreports.org