Iran is predominantly Shia Muslim, making up about 90 percent of the population, while Sunni Muslims and other Muslim sects ...

Why was the country of Iran formerly called Persia? What has this got to do with the conquests of ancient Middle Eastern ...

The U.S. attacks on Iran’s nuclear sites is the latest in the Israel-Iran conflict that some say echoes the biblical enemy ...

Veteran and private military contractor Erik Prince, in an interview on "The Will Cain Show," criticized the U.S. strike on suspected Iranian nuclear sites. Prince said a war in Iran is not something ...

Ancient Iran was home to numerous exceptionally powerful kings throughout history. This was particularly so in the era of the ...

This is not Israel against Iran; this is Israel and Iran’s true sons and daughters against a common enemy—the murderous ...

When World War II broke out in 1939, British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill requested that the Iranian government revert ...

The Babylonian Exile, a traumatic and critical period in Jewish history, saw thousands of Jews deported to Babylon following the conquest of Judah by the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II.During their ...

EMERGING from a carpet shop in Iran’s beautiful and ancient city of Esfahan, I was engulfed by a group of jostling young men.

ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin made the following comments at a plenary session of the St ...

A simple visual guide to Iran and its people With a population of 92 million, Iran is the 17-th largest country in the world by population and land area. By Alia Chughtai and Mohamed A. Hussein ...