To reduce Iran’s history to conspiracy is inaccurate and insulting. It dismisses the courage of people who have paid an extraordinary price for dissent.

Relations between the United States and Iran have been fraught for decades – at least since the U.S. helped overthrow a democracy-minded prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh, in August 1953. The U.S. then supported the long, repressive reign of the Shah of ...

The Iranian rial has fallen to its lowest mark, plunging the country into deep economic turmoil. The anger over rising inflation and prices of everyday essentials has led to massive protests across different cities of Iran,

Protests fueled by crippling economic conditions have swept across Iran’s provinces, as authorities revert to their tested playbook of cracking down without offering viable solutions to grievances driving public anger.

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted his Iranian counterpart Friday for the signing of a broad pact between Moscow and Tehran. The Kremlin says the “comprehensive strategic partnership” agreement between Putin and Iranian President ...

The latest season of this ‘Iranian Spring’ began on 28 December 2025, when highly influential merchants of Tehran’s Grand Bazaar revolted against the Iranian rial’s crash, hyperinflation, and a proposed 2026 budget featuring a 62 per cent tax hike.

Never in history have the women of a nation suffered so profound a reversal of their rights and status as the women of Iran did in 1979. Islamists and Marxists joined together to overthrow a secular, modernizing monarchy that had made equality for women ...

Visitors try out an installation at the SoundScapes exhibition that brings together early sound recordings from Iranian history — ATTA KENARE In a century-old building in Tehran, Saeed Anvarinejad turned the dial of a vintage radio to tune into some of ...

The death of a towering Iranian filmmaker is the loss of an artist whose work carried his homeland's myths, language and memory despite years of exile and censorship

Iran enters the 2026 FIFA World Cup after extending a long run of consistent qualification, marking a fourth straight appearance in the tournament. The squad features a core built around players from the Persian Gulf Pro League and several established contributors from European clubs.