An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.9 hit northwest Iran near the border with Turkey on Saturday, killing at least three people and injuring over 800....Read more

In 1921 Reza Khan (later Reza Shah Pahlavi), an officer in Iran's only military force (Cossack Brigade) used his troops to support a coup against the government of Qajar Dynasty....Read more

One of the most popular thoughts associated with the word karma is ‘what goes around, comes back around’. What people often overlook is that the implication of karma extends to far more than just a few rough patches or bad luck....Read more

Ebrahim Golestan is an Iranian filmmaker and literary figure with a career spanning half a century. He has lived in Sussex, United Kingdom, since 1975....Read more

Getting millions or even billions of people around the world to do the same thing at the same time is no small feat....Read more

She provides other insights into his character. He never reads books, she says, and despite his Islamic rhetoric....Read more

Three months into the anti-regime protests, Iranians abroad are going through a spectrum of emotions....Read more

A superstition is any belief or practice considered by non-practitioners to be irrational or supernatural, attributed to fate or magic, perceived supernatural influence, or fear of that which is unknown....Read more

Parvaz Homay is an Iranian composer, lyricist, vocalist, and performer specializing in Persian classical-style music....Read more

Dozens of Iranians gathered Sunday outside the French embassy in Tehran protesting against cartoons of the Islamic Republic’s supreme leader by French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo. ...Read more

Political history is the narrative and survey of political events, ideas, movements, organs of government, voters, parties and leaders. It is closely related to other fields of history, including diplomatic history, constitutional history, social history, people's history, and pu ......Read more

Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has appointed an infamous military figure as the country's new police chief to step up crackdown on protests....Read more

Without doubt, climate change is the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced. The scientific evidence of the scale of the threat is overwhelming, compelling and frightening....Read more

One of Iran’s greatest ever footballers, who has expressed support for anti-government protests, says his wife and daughter were blocked from leaving the country on Monday....Read more

 Mohammad Moradi, 38, was found in the Rhone river that flows through the centre of Lyon late on Monday....Read more