With every new wave of protest, every strike, and every act of civil disobedience, Tehran's response is not reform, but ...

Ancient and modern blended on the streets of Manhattan Sunday as thousands thronged to the annual Persian parade. Organizer Cyrus Assadi, one of the parade’s founders, said this year’s event ...

The Persian Empire, founded in the 6th century BCE by Cyrus the Great, became one of history’s most powerful and influential empires. At its height, it spanned three continents,covering parts of ...

Pahlavi likened Khamenei to a “rat,” while Netanyahu described the supreme leader as a “modern Hitler.” ZUMAPRESS.com. The exiled crown prince, who fled Iran in his teens and has been ...

"People weren't familiar with the modern art I was producing." In 1965, authorities shut down Tanavoli's gallery show in Tehran because it merged materials and imagery from the East and West.

The tragedy of modern Iran is that the death of President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash on Sunday isn’t likely to change much about how the country is led.

Mahsa Amini's death in the custody of Iranian police sparked protests and a global movement on women's issues. Artists in the U.S. are working to keep it all from fading from view.

Old School Persian Photography With a Modern Twist. ... “People are [still] very drawn to this work,” she told me. “The work automatically raises a lot of questions.

As a Persian woman born in France and raised in San Francisco, Ms. Ansari, 38, knew she didn’t want a typical Sofreh Aghd. “I wanted to personalize it,” said Ms. Ansari.