When a young Iranian woman was arrested last week after she stripped down to her underwear in protest of the country's strict hijab laws, people around the world praised her for her courageous act.

This film series features rarely screened films of the Iranian New Wave, an exceptional film movement that took place before the 1979 Islamic Revolution. During the cosmopolitan and yet turbulent ...

Iran launched 180 ballistic missiles last week ... on the economy and inflation are very much less than they were in the 1970s. Whereas in the 1970s it was estimated that a sustained $10 increase ...

Declassified 1970s-era U.S. spy satellite imagery has led a British-Iraqi archeological team to what they believe is the site ...

Iran is willing to resolve disputes with the United Nations over its compliance with safeguards on its nuclear programme but ...

The Islamic Revolution of 1979 brought seismic changes to Iran, not least for women. One area that has come under scrutiny is the way women dress and wear their hair - the old Shah, in the 1930s ...