The week concluded with a ceremony attended by Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian. While official ceremonies such as these ...

AKRE. Iraq (AP) — Kurds in Iraq and Syria this week marked the Newroz festival, a traditional celebration of spring and ...

Local Persian community celebrates their New Year 'Nowruz' in San Diego. Nowruz means 'Happy, New Day' in Farsi.

In the coming weeks, one of the most trusted independent news sources for Iranians faces the prospect of going silent.Radio ...

Known as “Chaharshanbe Souri” in Farsi, the ancient festival comes on the last Tuesday of the year, ahead of Nowruz, the ...

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has framed the strikes as evidence that the U.S. fears the growing strength of Yemen's Houthi rebels.

I was trying to get into her life,” Khalid Mehdiyev said of targeting activist Masih Alinejad. “I was trying to get the easy ...

At the crossroads of Iranian and Canadian culture, “Universal Language” is a unique mixture of surrealism and normalcy. The ...

The film’s surrealism is not a new style for Rankin, whose 2019 directorial debut, “The Twentieth Century,” received positive reviews from critics as a surrealist black comedy. Even though “Universal ...

On Wednesday, he received the remaining 74 lashes, his lawyer, Zahra Minuei, confirmed in a Farsi-language statement. "Today ... the last part of the sentence ... was fully and completely ...

As the Iranian New Year (Nowruz) approaches, concerns over the cost of living continue to grow. On Monday, the U.S. dollar exchange rate in Iran's market climbed to the 93,000-toman range ...

US sanctions are pushing Iranian oil shipments to China towards smaller tankers instead of VLCCs. Ship-to-ship transfers, especially off Malaysia, are increasingly used to mask the origin of the ...