Iran has again cut internet and phone services as protests surge across the nation. Demonstrators are responding to calls for action, with markets closing in solidarity. This unrest echoes decades of similar movements driven by economic hardship and demands for freedom.

The Iranian rial has fallen to its lowest mark, plunging the country into deep economic turmoil. The anger over rising inflation and prices of everyday essentials has led to massive protests across different cities of Iran,

Strange to think, but there was a time when the United States’ most steadfast ally in the Middle East was Iran. In 1953, the C.I.A. had backed a coup that ousted Mohammad Mossadegh, the popular Prime Minister, and restored power to the monarchy of ...

To reduce Iran’s history to conspiracy is inaccurate and insulting. It dismisses the courage of people who have paid an extraordinary price for dissent.

The U.S. aerial strike against Iran was conducted under such unique circumstances that it offers as many questions as lessons. The Israeli air campaign, conducted exclusively with fighter jets, had so crippled Iran’s air defenses that American B-2 ...

Never in history have the women of a nation suffered so profound a reversal of their rights and status as the women of Iran did in 1979. Islamists and Marxists joined together to overthrow a secular, modernizing monarchy that had made equality for women ...

Visitors try out an installation at the SoundScapes exhibition that brings together early sound recordings from Iranian history — ATTA KENARE In a century-old building in Tehran, Saeed Anvarinejad turned the dial of a vintage radio to tune into some of ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin is hosting his Iranian counterpart Friday for the signing of a broad pact between Moscow and Tehran. The Kremlin says the “comprehensive strategic partnership” agreement between Putin and Iranian ...

The death of a towering Iranian filmmaker is the loss of an artist whose work carried his homeland's myths, language and memory despite years of exile and censorship

In 2023, Pahlavi visited Israel and met PM Benjamin Netanyahu. Here’s what to know about his family’s position in Iranian history, and Pahlavi’s political activism against the current regime.