During a meeting held in Tehran on Thursday, high-ranking delegations from Venezuela, Cuba, Russia, Serbia, Honduras, China, ...

Its extensive road and railway network, coupled with major ports in the Indian Ocean, gives Iran an important advantage in ...

Photograph by Martin Gray, National Geographic The magic worm of Ferdowsi’s epic was likely a silkworm. Built during the 6th to 4th centuries B.C. at the crossroads of important trade routes ...

Iran hanged a man convicted of spying for Israel, state media reported Wednesday. The report said Pedram Madani was hanged after the country’s supreme court upheld a ...

The U.S. has been steadily amassing aircraft at Diego Garcia for months, signaling readiness for any military operation in ...

The Book of Routes and Realms (Kitāb al-Masālik wa al-Mamālik) by Ibrāhīm al-Iṣṭakhrī is one of the most important and ...

Washington Post interviews with people across Tehran offered a rare window into the lives and economic frustrations of the ...

Ahead of a May tour of the Middle East, US President Donald Trump revived a long-running dispute over the name of the body of ...

The sticking point to a framework agreement is whether Iran would be allowed to keep enriching uranium.

Iran is planning to take legal action against Google for labeling the Persian Gulf as the "Arabian Gulf" on its map ...

But the current Islamic regime, which took power in 1979, opposes the signing of this treaty as a relic of the previous monarchy. It has not pulled out of the NPT, but since the 2000s, Iran has ...

“If there will be no water in Iran, our children will lose interest in their country.” Photograph by Newsha Tavakolian, National Geographic At a meeting in 2016 sponsored by the National ...