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Abandoned by the world and their own government, my family and the Iranian people relied on their strength to get through ...
T he enormous roundabout at Azadi Square was full of cars, yet still felt somehow deserted. Then it dawned on me: Humans—they were mostly missing. Where normally tens of thousands of pedestrians ...
Some parts of it were what you might call “visibly invisible”: Everyone in Tehran knows about Evin Prison, perched on the edge of the Alborz foothills, its name spoken with dread and resignation. But ...
Iranian civilians describe fear, confusion, and conflicted emotions as Israel targets Tehran’s regime infrastructure and the U.S. debates intervention or diplomacy.
Stars of 'Don't Call Me Mama' and 'When a River Becomes the Sea' won the acting honors, 'The Visitor' and 'Out of Love' ...
Tehran fell dark and silent, except for the sound of explosions. In their houses and apartments, Iranians tried to pass the ...
Yesterday Iranian media published new CCTV footage purporting to show an attack on Tehran during the war which was widely ...
Israel has expanded its attacks on Iran’s densely populated capital city, in recent days warning many of Tehran’s residents to evacuate ahead of strikes.
U.S. President Donald Trump posted an ominous message on his social media site, calling for the immediate evacuation of Tehran but later denied reports he had rushed back to Washington to work on ...
The 12-day war between Iran and Israel may not have transformed the opaque rule of the Islamic Republic, but it did make some things newly visible in Tehran. However briefly, a city within a city ...
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.