Often called one of the world’s most beautiful cities, Isfahan is famous for its elegant architecture and formal gardens. It is also the city that

Intense rivalry among Iranian politicians is fuelling the Islamic Republic’s tensions with the west, as previously moderate figures turn radical in an effort to win

Tehran and Beijing are in talks about using a barter system to exchange Iranian oil for Chinese goods and services, as US financial sanctions have

“Iranians … learn to abide by regulations when they travel which is positive,” says Esmaeel Ghaderi, an academic who studies tourism. “But they also taste individual freedom

Today, only one foreign company – the China National Petroleum Corporation – is present in one phase of the field, which lies beneath the waters

On the surface, the Imam Khomeini Relief Committee is nothing more than an ordinary Iranian charity. But this organisation, which serves around 9m people, plays

Iran accused Saudi Arabia yesterday of handing over a senior Iranian nuclear scientist to the US. Shahram Amiri, thought to be in his early 30s,

In a sign of how bad things have become in Iran, some of those arrested in recent weeks have been relieved to be detained in

Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani, Iran’s influential former president, told a crowd of massed opposition supporters on Friday that Iran was in “crisis” following the disputed presidential election

Iran’s reformist opposition on Wednesday delivered a co-­ordinated message to Iranians, declaring the government of Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad illegitimate and encouraging supporters to challenge it. A