“The rap format is very, very native and very inimical to Persian culture.” By Scott Simon, Michael...
Iran
Iran uses undercover Guidance Patrol officers to catch violators of the Islamic dress code. Introduction and Background...
The ‘Morality Police’ are a task force with all the powers of a law enforcement agency. A...
Tehran will immediately return to scrupulously observing the terms of the 2015 nuclear deal if the trade...
Protests during the Iranian Revolution, 1978 represent broader struggles across the region between secular and Islamic models...
The Āmeri House is a historic house in Kashan, in Isfahan Province, in Iran / Photo by...
Inscription of Xerxes, Van, Turkey: It is a trilingual inscription, written in Old Persian, Babylonian and Elamite...
Howz-Māhy is a region located in the center of Iran, where a considerable number of petroglyphs can...
British supply convoy with Russian escorts in Iran, September 1941 / Public Domain At dawn on August...
An Islamic revolution ran the shah out of Iran in 1979. Now, his father’s mummified body has...
“Feridun Strikes Zahak With The Ox-Headed Mace,” watercolor on paper, Tabriz, Iran, circa 1525, from Firdawsi’s “Shahnameh”...