Despite a ceaseless battle against government censors, he was celebrated as one of his country’s greatest auteurs, winning ...

Flight Options: Multiple airlines operate Delhi-to-Tashkent routes. Uzbek Airways flies direct (3 hours). Turkish Airlines connects via Istanbul. Emirates connects via Dubai. Flydubai connects via ...

Ancient Iran produced a range of technologies designed to survive extreme climates, including wind catchers, underground water channels, ice houses, and early mechanical systems. These innovations ...

Iran has been here before. For decades the country has gone through cycles of protest and repression at the hands of the ...

The 75-year-old pop star is part of a generation of Iranians in the diaspora who are watching, with bated breath, as their ...

Chogha Zanbil was first spotted from a surveillance airplane in 1935. The excavated complex was discovered to be one of the few ziggurats built outside Mesopotamia. The ruins of the ancient Elamite ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Prominent Iranian film and theater writer-director Bahram Beyzaie died in the U.S. on Friday due to complications from cancer, ...

Cinema has been a part of Iran for nearly its entire history. Though the work of Ebrahim Khan Akkas Bashi is no longer extant ...

Despite some Western political forces continuing to run smear campaigns against Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, they won't deter the people in the region from embracing peace and ...

The Iranian government has exerted forceful control over its citizens since the Islamic Republic seized power nearly 50 years ago. The pop star Googoosh has firsthand experience of opposition to the ...

Singer-songwriter Cao Shi's home stood just a stone's throw from the bustling Da Tang Bu Ye Cheng (Grand Tang Dynasty Ever ...