Like two centuries ago, Tehran is caught between two competing powers: Vladimir Putin's Russia and the West, led by the U.S.
For more than a decade, after the government of Iran deemed his work “propaganda against the system,” the filmmaker Jafar ...
From thrilling performances to first international glory and historic feats, the first ever World Para Powerlifting ...
Iran claims a stunning intel success - tracking Mossad-linked agents inside Israel. State TV aired addresses of “Iran ...
The Iranian middle class, long a force of political moderation, stability, economic growth, and the base of the country’s reform movement, is shrinking fast under the pressure of Western sanctions, ...
As important as this moment is, it is critical for policymakers to remain clear-eyed that there will never be true peace in ...
Before Persia became an empire, it was the land of the Elamites. This episode traces Iran’s early civilizations through the ...
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Iran...What Lies Beyond the Return to the Past?

UN sanctions have been reinstated and its domestic legitimacy has been eroding. Instead of redefining its relationship with its citizens through genuine economic and political reform, the authorities ...
The pattern is predictable and, unfortunately, effective: appropriating Jewish pain to claim victimhood; equating Israel — a ...
In another one of their “history and tradition” tests, the justices stand poised to upend laws all across the country.
A new compilation sifts through the pop music of the Iranian diaspora in Los Angeles in the 80s and early 90s Iranian pop ...
Middle East stands at crossroads following Gaza ceasefire deal, with outcomes ranging from economic renaissance to Hamas ...