The United States government decided to revoke the exemption of sanctions that allowed Iraq to import electricity from Iran. The information was confirmed by a state department spokesman on March ...

It took 18 hours for one Iranian Christian convert to cross the Iranian-Turkish border when she fled her country. “We were in ...

The migrants fled conflict, religious persecution, poverty and government crackdowns in countries such as Afghanistan, ...

Persian New Year is celebrated in many countries across the world. Here’s everything you need to know, including what to cook ...

A letter U.S. President Donald Trump wrote to Iran’s supreme leader in an attempt to jump-start talks over Tehran’s rapidly ...

Born in 1962 in Najaf, Iraq, Tabrizian is a high-ranked Shi’a cleric (an ayatollah) and a graduate of major Shi’a seminaries. Although he is currently the most prominent figure in Islamic medicine in ...

In recent weeks, the plight of a group of Iranian asylum-seekers claiming to be converts to Christianity has been followed by The New York Times, helping to shine a light on a story not commonly ...

The retired 76-year-old professor of political science was already serving an 18-month sentence for criticizing the Iranian ...

The 2022 protests hark to March 8, 1979, when Iranian women cowed clerics, writes Nobel winner Narges Mohammadi.

Mehdi Yarrahi, a popular Iranian musician, was arrested in a 2023 crackdown after releasing a song that praised women who ...

Two human rights organisations have raised concerns about the significant increase in the number of executions in Iran in 2024. On 20 February, the Norway-based Iran Human Rights Organisation and ...