By the 18th and 19th centuries, the Persian Empire had weakened due to internal strife and had become a pawn in the hands of ...

Its leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has acknowledged that “several thousand” people were killed. Independent accounts suggest that the toll is far higher. Some reports say the number could be as high ...

Iranians are living a transformation. What appears to be another episodic period of unrest is, in fact, an inevitable civic ...

Though Iran’s various exile-based opposition movements share a hatred of the Islamic Republic, their own internal differences ...

Their hospitality carries a message the regime cannot censor: Iranians long to reconnect with the world that was pushed away ...

Nor are there any emergency meetings or condemnations from the United Nations. Member states were busy denouncing the United ...

The Islamic Republic’s current trajectory is unsustainable. But even authoritarian governments sometimes reform.

“You gotta end this," the longtime Trump ally urged the president.

Iran is experiencing what human rights observers are calling the deadliest crackdown on civilian protests in the Islamic ...

Many Iranians feel abandoned, by parts of the international progressive left that focus almost exclusively on American power ...

Most people refer to the 1979 hijacking of Iran by extremist ayatollahs as the Islamic Revolution. I like to refer to it as ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Visitors attend an exhibition called “In Women’s Words,” which displays works by modern Iranian women artists. The works are from the collection of the Tehran Museum of ...