Hamzeh Safavi, a soft-spoken professor of Middle Eastern studies at Tehran University, is not unique among Iranian ...

Baluchestan, and many other places is the result of bad governance, chronic mismanagement," said water policy analyst Nik ...

Sanctions punished Iran economically, but paradoxically boosted its sovereignty score: it became harder to pressure because it had already adjusted to living outside the global economic mainstream.

The Guards control massive dam-building and pipeline projects through front companies like Khatam al-Anbiya, a construction conglomerate that operates as both a cash cow and a political weapon. Under ...

Experts warn that without urgent reform, Iran will face even harsher shortages, permanent industrial rationing and declining ...

The Iranian middle class, long a force of political moderation, stability, economic growth, and the base of the country’s reform movement, is shrinking fast under the pressure of Western sanctions, ...

DUBAI — On Tehran's bustling streets, signs of change are unmistakable. Women walk unveiled in jeans and sneakers, men and women linger together in cafes where Western music hums softly, and couples ...

Iran still has the components needed to build a nuclear weapon after President Donald Trump ordered airstrikes on its nuclear sites, even as military hardliners dissatisfied with the weakness shown by ...

A wedding video which has gone viral in Iran has highlighted the country’s inequality and exposed hypocrisy at the core of ...

The U.S. military has deployed its first squadron of one-way attack drones to the Middle East. They were reverse-engineered from Iran’s Shahed drone.

Award-winning Iranian film-maker Jafar Panahi has been given a prison sentence on charges of creating propaganda against the ...