"Free of conflict, Tehran immediately struck up a friendship with Hamas – despite its being a Sunni organization rather than ...

Despite the failures of the Islamic Republic, many Iranians still see it as a reflection of their desire for an Islamic ...

COLUMN. Columnist Jean-Pierre Filiu notes how Fariba Adelkhah goes beyond the prison diary to deliver an anthropology of the ...

The media eulogies of the former president, who died Sunday, are silent on his initiation of a frontal assault on the working ...

The late president's greatest success was his ability to carry out the task assigned to all US presidents: expansion of an ...

Before the 1979 revolt, he was arrested by SAVAK (the National Security Agency of Iran during the reign of the late, and patriotic Shah of Iran) due to terrorist activity in an Islamic group.

It’s actually an image of an exhibit at the Ebrat Museum in Tehran, Iran. The museum, a former prison, uses wax mannequins to portray human rights abuses carried out by the SAVAK, Iran’s pre ...