Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Iran, between its burgeoning nuclear program, its active support for terrorism, and ...

Farsi Tube or Iranian You Tube, launched in the US at the end of last year, attracts 3,000 visitors daily, says its co-founder Sherwin Noorian. On a busy day, the figure could leap to 7,000 visitors ...

Translated by Rouhangiz Najafi Jablou, Taaq Publications has published the 112-page book in Persian, ISNA reported. In the book, two artists from two countries and two very different generations, Ken ...

Iranians and the Persian diaspora will be celebrating the arrival of spring and a new year on March 20. Norouz, the Persian new year, has its roots in Zoroastrian rituals dating back to the second ...

WASHINGTON -- In her first ever interview with the Persian-language media, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has announced that the United States will soon launch a "virtual Tehran embassy" ...

Detail from "Ferdowsi encounters the court poets of Ghazna," from the Shahnameh of Shah Tahmasp, ca. 1532, attributed to Aqa Mirak (Aga Khan Trust for Culture). Featured on the cover of "The World of ...