TEHRAN, Iran — China, Iran and Russia conducted joint naval drills Tuesday in the Middle East, offering a show of force in a region still uneasy over Tehran's rapidly expanding nuclear program and as ...

However, in October Iran’s state-media acknowledged blasts that could be heard in Tehran and said some of the sounds came from air defense systems around the city. This followed a series of ...

In case of war, this underground tunnel could be used for medical facilities. The head of transportation for Tehran's City Council has indicated that, for the first time, a tunnel with defensive ...

In an abandoned complex in the Syrian desert city of Palmyra, a piece of paper bearing a motivational slogan in Farsi is pinned to a rough wall. “No beginning is more beautiful than hello, and no wish ...

Similarly, urban planning professor Ali Khaksar Rafsanjani noted Tehran's "strategic location". The city "is safe and appropriate in emergency and war situations", he told the reformist Etemad ...

Senior Hamas leaders met with Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and the country's president Masoud Pezeshkian on Saturday, coinciding with the Iran-backed militant group's fifth ...

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says he rejects a U.S. push for talks between the two countries because they ...

About the risk of Hezbollah widening the Israel–Hamas war. About Iran-backed Iraqi and ... sought to contain or propitiate the regime in Tehran. In those 44 years, the Islamic Republic and ...

Written and directed by Sadeq Vafai, the production is an adaptation of his own novel, “When Will the War End?” Bahman Vakhshour ... perform in the play “The Truth of Rachel” at Tehran’s City Theater ...

Natalia Ginzburg (1916-1991) was an Italian author whose work explored family relationships, politics during and after the Fascist years and World War II, and philosophy ... on stage through February ...

An explosion in a container at a military site east of Tehran has killed one military personnel and injured 10 firefighters ...