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Growing up, my father always told me to focus on my studies and the arts and stay far away from politics. As a good student,...

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Maryam Mirzakhani, Fields medallist and Iranian national hero, is celebrated in an elegant documentary. http://www.zalafilms.com/secrets/

The IRGC will likely play a more active political role in Iran, which means talks with the US are unlikely to resume.

Something about the Trump administration’s latest line doesn’t add up. “This really left me shaking my head,” a former senior official with the National Security Agency said of the press...

The PTI news agency has quoted ‘sources’ in New Delhi to the effect that the Farzad-B gas field project in Iran is slipping out of India’s hands....

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Under Sassanid rule (224 CE–651) Persian arts and architecture experienced a general renaissance. However, it made its way well beyond the vast borders of the...

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Not only does Iran have a new and more unified foreign policy but its leaders also perceive that the credibility and prestige of the United States as a competent, liberal,...

Years of underinvestment and US-led restrictions limit regime’s ability to handle crisis as shortage of beds looms.

This sort of co-ordination – between North Korea and Iran and also between North Korea, Iran, and China – is nothing new, although its resumption at such a scale and...

Iran is also taking a principled stance that no other Middle Eastern country can emulate. Tehran may just have acquired the means, finally, to inflict pain on the US if it...

From deep inside its rabbit hole in Albania the MEK has created yet another Alice in Wonderland style fairy tale about Iranian spies and agents...

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Had Trump’s policies existed when I was a child, I would not be who or what I am. My immigrant family would have failed our president’s admission test on all...

No Washington-designed “maximum pressure” has been able to derail a crucial milestone this Sunday: the end of the UN arms embargo on Iran, in accordance...

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‘Made in Iran’ Thrives in Economy Trump Tried to Crush

The US and Israel vehemently oppose the end of the arms embargo and have repeatedly tried to stop it.

Iran’s adoption of the yuan looks like another step in what will be a decades-long process of the currency taking on a more prominent international role, according to China’s goals....

In Persian, the word often translated into English as ‘manners’ or ‘etiquette’ is adab. However, adab is about far more than politeness or ethics even. It means proper social and aesthetic form and, across...

The administration’s actions will further devastate the Iranian economy and make Iran even more likely to instigate some hostile military action in …

When Donald Trump announced his latest threats against Iran on Rush Limbaugh’s show last week, it was unclear whether he or his steroids were talking....

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As the dying Trump administration, literally on a sickbed, contemplates losing power, its hawks are lashing out at Iran in an attempt to ensure that...

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While some Iranian Americans fully support President Donald Trump, Nazmiyal is among scores of Iranian Americans who have no loyalty to the repressive regime in Tehran, but who are fed up with...

The British press seem to be doing a rancorous business of late of fabricating stories about Iran, Hezbollah and China. It’s almost as though these...

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The controversial executive order issued by the US president three years ago continues to affect artists from countries throughout the world

Iranian filmmaker Khosrow Sinai passed away in August from COVID-19, leaving behind an important and eye-opening document of Polish exodus during the Second World War. His documentary The Lost Requiem...

Assyria. Babylonia. Persia. These ancient empires covered an area generally consisting of modern-day Iraq and Iran. Museum goers can learn more about these cultures through exhibitions of their artistic expressions...

US intelligence officials have concluded that Iran prefers a Joe Biden win come November. And why wouldn’t it? Biden has vowed to return to the Iran deal, the nuclear agreement...

As the coronavirus ripples through President Trump’s inner circle and beyond, a key lesson of the pandemic is again on full display: Power and privilege are not reliable protections from...

There are very few people who can be recognized within seconds of hearing their name or voice. In the Iranian community, that name and voice...

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One spring morning, on a return visit to Iran in 2015, I was sitting in a taxi stuck in traffic in Tehran’s Towhid Square and scanning the image-plastered dashboard to...

With the 25-year deal with China now moving ahead at pace, Iran has a buyer for all of the crude oil it can produce, albeit at discounted levels, so Tehran...

How does change come to a traditional society? In Iran, a lenient sentence for the murder of a 14-year-old girl and the removal of girls’ images from a math textbook...

Iran’s Foreign Ministry strongly condemned the obstinate insistence in France on insulting the Prophet of Islam, Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). In a statement on Saturday, Foreign...

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Khamenei set new tasks for the gov’t, calls for stricter penalties as Iran’s daily cases continue to rise again.

Iran has successfully launched the Bavar-373 missile defence system destroying a long-range target for the first time, during the ′′Defenders of Velayat Skies 99″ manoeuvre....

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The deceptive campaign made use of an Internet domain associated with the far-right Proud Boys

‘It is the US that peddles arms and ammunition everywhere, uses military trade to serve geopolitical interest’

Alejandro Amaya and Lucas Vinyard are arraigned after being indicted last week.

Iran’s Air Defense units are going to stage a military exercise covering more than half of the country’s territories. The joint air defense exercise, codenamed...

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The United States’ approach to impose sanctions on Chinese and Hong Kong individuals and entities in relation to Iran's nuclear program is wrong and Russia...

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The sales of Iranian weapons following the termination of a UN arms embargo will be outstripping the imports, Defense Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami said,...

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On Sunday, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Washington would sanction "any individual or entity that materially contributes to the supply, sale, or transfer...

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Iran’s single-day death toll from the coronavirus smashed a record set less than a week ago, with 337 dead confirmed Monday

In 2015, Iran signed the JCPOA with China, France, Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany and the European Union, requiring Iran to...

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Iran’s flag carrier IranAir is scheduled to resume flights to Cologne, Germany, as of October 30. This flight, bearing No. 729, leaves Imam Khomeini International...

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Iran has warned both Azerbaijan and Armenia over multiple instances of errant missiles landing within Iranian territory amid fighting over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous region....

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Publication of new guidelines by government body comes a week after viral videos showed police beating detainees.

Two Iranian government institutions became the targets of massive cyberattacks earlier this week, but the relevant Iranian agencies reacted quickly and repelled them, an official...

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Iran will be able to freely sell and buy weapons as of October 18, as the UN arms embargo will be terminated under the 2015...

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Iran is ranked 12th in the world and first in West Asia in terms of biotechnology, as 9.5 percent of the income of knowledge-based companies...

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The Iranian Defense Ministry unveiled a medical machine for diagnostic sonography. Iranian Deputy Defense Minister General Qassem Taqizadeh unveiled the homegrown diagnostic imaging device on...

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Growing up, my father always told me to focus on my studies and the arts and stay far away from politics. As a good student,...

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Maryam Mirzakhani, Fields medallist and Iranian national hero, is celebrated in an elegant documentary. http://www.zalafilms.com/secrets/

The IRGC will likely play a more active political role in Iran, which means talks with the US are unlikely to resume.

Something about the Trump administration’s latest line doesn’t add up. “This really left me shaking my head,” a former senior official with the National Security Agency said of the press...

The PTI news agency has quoted ‘sources’ in New Delhi to the effect that the Farzad-B gas field project in Iran is slipping out of India’s hands....

Comment

Under Sassanid rule (224 CE–651) Persian arts and architecture experienced a general renaissance. However, it made its way well beyond the vast borders of the...

Comment

Not only does Iran have a new and more unified foreign policy but its leaders also perceive that the credibility and prestige of the United States as a competent, liberal,...

Years of underinvestment and US-led restrictions limit regime’s ability to handle crisis as shortage of beds looms.

This sort of co-ordination – between North Korea and Iran and also between North Korea, Iran, and China – is nothing new, although its resumption at such a scale and...

Iran is also taking a principled stance that no other Middle Eastern country can emulate. Tehran may just have acquired the means, finally, to inflict pain on the US if it...

From deep inside its rabbit hole in Albania the MEK has created yet another Alice in Wonderland style fairy tale about Iranian spies and agents...

Comment

Had Trump’s policies existed when I was a child, I would not be who or what I am. My immigrant family would have failed our president’s admission test on all...

No Washington-designed “maximum pressure” has been able to derail a crucial milestone this Sunday: the end of the UN arms embargo on Iran, in accordance...

Comment

‘Made in Iran’ Thrives in Economy Trump Tried to Crush

The US and Israel vehemently oppose the end of the arms embargo and have repeatedly tried to stop it.

Iran’s adoption of the yuan looks like another step in what will be a decades-long process of the currency taking on a more prominent international role, according to China’s goals....

The administration’s actions will further devastate the Iranian economy and make Iran even more likely to instigate some hostile military action in …

When Donald Trump announced his latest threats against Iran on Rush Limbaugh’s show last week, it was unclear whether he or his steroids were talking....

Comment

As the dying Trump administration, literally on a sickbed, contemplates losing power, its hawks are lashing out at Iran in an attempt to ensure that...

Comment

While some Iranian Americans fully support President Donald Trump, Nazmiyal is among scores of Iranian Americans who have no loyalty to the repressive regime in Tehran, but who are fed up with...

The British press seem to be doing a rancorous business of late of fabricating stories about Iran, Hezbollah and China. It’s almost as though these...

Comment

The controversial executive order issued by the US president three years ago continues to affect artists from countries throughout the world

US intelligence officials have concluded that Iran prefers a Joe Biden win come November. And why wouldn’t it? Biden has vowed to return to the Iran deal, the nuclear agreement...

As the coronavirus ripples through President Trump’s inner circle and beyond, a key lesson of the pandemic is again on full display: Power and privilege are not reliable protections from...

There are very few people who can be recognized within seconds of hearing their name or voice. In the Iranian community, that name and voice...

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One spring morning, on a return visit to Iran in 2015, I was sitting in a taxi stuck in traffic in Tehran’s Towhid Square and scanning the image-plastered dashboard to...

With the 25-year deal with China now moving ahead at pace, Iran has a buyer for all of the crude oil it can produce, albeit at discounted levels, so Tehran...

How does change come to a traditional society? In Iran, a lenient sentence for the murder of a 14-year-old girl and the removal of girls’ images from a math textbook...

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