Area city, 270 square miles (707 square km). Pop. (2016) city, 8,693,706.With a dramatic topography reflective of its proximity to the highest peak in the country....Read more
Süha Tawil Arafat is the young and beautiful wife Arafat kept secret after marrying on July 17th, 1990. The day they eloped was Süha Tawil Arafat's 27th birthday. ...Read more
Professor Samii was born in Tehran on June 20th, 1937. His father and mother were from Rasht and Shiraz respectively. After some years living in Tehran, they eventually went back to Rasht....Read more
He worked as a freelance reporter for The Observer. He was arrested by Iraqi authorities and executed in 1990 after being convicted of spying for Israel while working in Iraq....Read more
Hossein Amirabdollahian, the Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs met with his Libyan counterpart, Najla Mangoush, to discuss and exchange views on issues of mutual interest....Read more
A huge burst of flame lights up a pre-dawn backstreet, silhouetting the young men caked from head to toe in brown mud....Read more
Muharram, also known as Muharram-ul-Haram, is the first month of the Hijri calendar and thus marks the beginning of the Islamic year....Read more
Tirgan is an ancient Iranian tradition which is still celebrated in various regions of Iran, including Mazenderan, Khorasan, and Arak. ...Read more
Why do we watch horror movies? While the primary purpose of any horror movie is to shock, frighten, trigger and arouse disgust through a series....Read more
Ashura is marked on the 10th day of Muharram, the first month of the Islamic calendar, by all Muslims....Read more
People’s distaste of learning history might have gone way back to history classes in school, where every exam was dreaded because it’s always about memorizing dates....Read more
Forty years ago, Iran’s exiled Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini descended from a chartered Air France Boeing 747 to return to Tehran, a city on the cusp of revolution....Read more
Under Reza Shah's 16 years rule the roads and Trans-Iranian Railway were built, modern education was introduced and the University of Tehran was established. ...Read more
Hamid Reza Pahlavi was born on 4 July 1932. He was the youngest son of Reza Shah and his fourth and favourite wife, Esmat Dowlatshahi....Read more
Davoud Rashidi was an Iranian actor. Rashidi, along with Ali Nasirian, Ezatollah Entezami, Jamshid Mashayekhi and Mohammad Ali Keshavarz is known as one of "the five most important actors in the history of Iranian cinema" due to their significant influence....Read more
