Some parts of it were what you might call “visibly invisible”: Everyone in Tehran knows about Evin Prison, perched on the ...

T he enormous roundabout at Azadi Square was full of cars, yet still felt somehow deserted. Then it dawned on me: Humans—they ...

One Tehran is filled with apartments and parks, evening picnics and bus rides, laughter and prayer and disappointment—the “city of man,” in Augustine’s sense, full of contradictions and grace.

For 12 days, Tehran fell dark and silent, except for the sound of explosions. In their houses and apartments, Iranians tried ...

Yesterday Iranian media published new CCTV footage purporting to show an attack on Tehran during the war which was widely ...

[From the October 1906 issue: New York after Paris] That visible city was more modern, more vibrant than I had expected. Parks and flower gardens, legacies of Persian landscaping genius, were ...

Iranians say they are caught between their country's regime and Israeli destruction as the conflict intensifies.

NEW YORK (AP) — The streets of Tehran are empty, businesses closed, communications patchy at best. With no bona fide bomb shelters open to the public, panicked masses spend restless nights on ...

A young shop manager living alone in Iran's capital was panicking during the war with Israel. Her family wasn't nearby. Her ...