It’s a day that we had hoped and prayed would arrive. American Pastor Saeed Abedini – along with three other Americans – was released from an Iranian prison Saturday – freed after spending more than ...

THE images of Neda Agha Soltan, the young woman who died on the streets of Tehran, keep playing before my eyes. When I don't look at the clip on my computer, it runs on its own in my mind's eye. What ...

Tens of thousands of government opponents packed Iran's main Islamic prayer service Friday, chanting "freedom, freedom" and other slogans as their top clerical backer Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani ...

A debate over the potential return of one of Iran's greatest classical singers for a prayer recitation has provided a fresh test of the hard-line domination of state TV nearly a decade after unrest ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Friday prayer leader Ahmad Khatami, a hard-line acolyte of President ...

DUBAI (Reuters) - Friday prayer gatherings resumed in up to 180 Iranian cities and towns seen as only at low risk of coronavirus contagion after a two-month suspension, state media reported. The ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Tighten your hijab, ladies, and pull on your manteau. The months-long ...

TEHRAN (Reuters Life!) - In Islamic Iran where clerics rule, unofficial "prayer sellers," who promise to intercede with the divine to solve all manner of life's problems, are seeing their business ...