Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Professor Tarek Masoud joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about the history of Iran. Is Iran an Arab country? Why did the Iranian revolution happen? Is Iran the only ...

A Visual Testimony" features 16 staged images from pivotal incidents in Iran's modern history. Each photograph sheds light on events where there are little to no visual records in existence.

The war may not yet be fully over, but if it returns, it will be only for a brief interregnum, allowing Donald Trump to declare victory and announce the mission over. It will surely entail increased Iranian losses of lives and treasure,

As US and Israeli bombardments rained down on Iran, damaging some cherished cultural sites, scores of Persian artifacts were safe and sound, 5,000 kilometers away in northern China, under the watchful eye of Dong Bibing. The museum curator is managing an ...

The book opens in 1926 with the author’s mother, a six-month-old infant, being carried on horseback across the Aras River as her family fled Soviet forces in northern Azerbaijan. The narrator himself was born in 1961, the son of a father serving a ...

131 sites and museums have suffered damage or been destroyed during the US and Israeli war against Iran between February 28 and April 8. Amid uncertainty over what will happen next as peace talks failed during the two-week conditional ceasefire, it is an ...