An Iranian Grammy Award winner said on Monday he was pardoned from a three-year sentence for a song that became an anthem ...

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar,” a radio program created by CBS in 1949 that found a devoted listenership in Farsi, has returned ...

Conservationists at Persepolis, Iran's most iconic ancient site, are waging a delicate battle against an unlikely adversary: ...

In this book, Blain Auer demonstrates how Persian kingship was a transcultural phenomenon. Describing the contributions made by kings, poets, historians, political and moral philosophers, he reveals ...

A UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1979, Persepolis features colossal sculptures and intricate stone reliefs of ancient Persian kings, nobles and deities. But these have suffered over the years ...

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a labor group that Iran's Islamist rulers refuse to recognize. Since then, VOA's Persian Service has monitored credible reports of peaceful strikes and protest gatherings by nurses spreading to at ...

Saudi ruler Mohammed bin Salman is extracting significant ... wider regional conflict while empowering its arch-regional rival Iran and its proxies in the "Axis of Resistance." ...

But Nasreen’s dream collides with bitter reality in Iran where the country’s Islamist rulers have decreed that women cannot perform in public. A Sisters’ Tale premiered last month at the ...

as Iran's eight-year war with Iraq came to an end. His alleged role was said to be pivotal in winning him the support of powerful Iranian theocratic rulers. The US sanctioned Raisi in 2019 for ...

The diamond was placed at the top of the Peacock throne. Persian ruler Nader Shah invaded Delhi and took away Koh-I-Noor in 1739. The stone was brought back by Sikh ruler Ranjit Singh in 1813.

"Unilaterally lifting sanctions on Iran and Russia is the exact kind of ... U.S. sanctions were "hurting the Iranian people far more than their rulers" and "elevating the likelihood of a regional ...