March 6 -- Farah Pahlavi is a 65-year-old woman living a quiet life in Potomac, Md., but 25 years ago she was an empress living at the center of a cultural and political upheaval that continues to ...

Iranian authorities arrested two men after a video went viral showing them dressed in military uniforms while carrying the flag used during the rule of the shah prior to the 1979 Islamic Revolution, ...

For over 40 years, Scott Anderson has been one of America’s most incisive foreign correspondents, filing dispatches from trouble spots around the world with a novelist’s eye and a talent for ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A novel about identity and a missing youth, a history of the overthrow of the Shah of Iran and a picture book celebrating the underappreciated belly button are this year's winners of ...

While many in Iran’s divided diaspora opposed Israel’s campaign, some took the war as a chance to amplify their ideas about Iran’s future. By The New York Times After 12 days of devastating Israeli ...

Few could have predicted another chapter in world history would unfold at the Midtown Scholar last week. But it did. Michael Metrinko, whom Iranian students took hostage in their takeover of the ...

"A remarkable first-person narrative by a sixteenth century Iranian ruler, the Memoirs of the Safavid Shah Tahmasp (1514-1576), originally written in Persian, represent a vitally important primary ...

Includes a gallery of extra images. Published for the exhibition Shah ʻAbbas: The remaking of Iran (British Museum 19 February to 14 June 2009, in association with the Iran Heritage Foundation) by the ...