Iran was ruled by King Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah. Then the Islamic Revolution swept the country.

Iranian women wore miniskirts, earned advanced degrees, ran businesses, and lived lives that looked remarkably like their ...

Now, the flicker of a live feed: June 24, 2025. Queens pulses with 36.6-degree C heat and disbelief. Thirty-three-year-old ...

As Iran was a constitutional monarchy before the revolution, theocratic elements were effectively grafted on top of the ...

Among one of the many questions raised since the Middle Eastern crisis hit headlines following a sudden initial missile ...

In the concluding part of our series on US-Iran relations, we examine the Shah’s push for modernisation, the emergence of ...

Since the 1979 revolution swept away the shah and ushered in an era of strict Islamic rule, "Iran has been no stranger to protests – or to their violent suppression", said The Christian Science ...

Emad Sharqi, 59, an Iranian-American businessman who was detained in Iran in 2016, and Morad Tahbaz, 67, a British-American conservationist who was detained in Iran in 2018, were also released.

The fear of being perceived as Islamophobic drives Western feminists to implicitly support one of the most oppressive regimes in the world.

The exiled son of Iran's last shah, known to his supporters as 'crown prince,' says he's ready to take over. But Iran's opposition is splintered.