Iranian singer Shervin Hajipour was sentenced to prison for his Mahsa Amini protest anthem. He has reportedly been pardoned, ...

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

While most people associate imperial rule with endogenous empires, Barfield focuses on the exogenous examples—the "shadow ...

Conservationists battle lichens eroding ancient Persepolis, aiming to preserve intricate carvings and structures from ...

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 ...

Iranian and European officials will meet at the U.N. General Assembly in New York next week in a test of whether the two ...

Lebanon's political system is deeply entrenched in sectarian divisions. The country is a confessional democracy, meaning that ...

Crown Prince Mohammed, far from being isolated by the US, has just secured an end to the four-year US ban on offensive ...

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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 ...

From the blog of Erfan Fard at The Times of Israel ...