TEHRAN (ANI) – To deepen cultural ties, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar announced that India has decided to include Farsi (Persian) as one of the nine classical languages in India under the New ...

What is BBC News Persian? The BBC’s Persian service started in 1940. Today BBC News Persian reaches a total weekly audience of around 24 million and is the largest Persian-language media outlet ...

Persian and Kurdish communities across Michigan are preparing to welcome in the Persian New Year Friday, March 20. Nowruz, the Persian New Year, start sat 10:46 a.m. on Friday, March 20, aligning with ...

As the United States and Israel continue the war which might free the Iranian people from a tyrannical regime, the yearning of the people of Israel for positive relations with the Iranian people has ...

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A satellite image of Kharg Island, taken days after military facilities there were struck by the U.S.European Space Agency/AFP/Getty Images Even as oil-tanker loadings remain steady at Iran’s key ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. In Iran, war overshadows traditional celebrations of Nowruz, the Persian New Year. Economic collapse and ...

Persian Jewish dentist Kamran “Kam” Esfahani, the protagonist of this taut political thriller from McCloskey (The Seventh Floor), is counting down the days until he has enough money to leave Sweden ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he will make a decision about how the U.S. government will refer to the body of water now commonly known as the Persian Gulf when he visits ...

Tehran, Iran – Iran is celebrating Nowruz, the Persian New Year, during wartime for the first time since the 1980s, when neighbouring Iraq launched a full-scale invasion, leading to eight years of war ...

In March 1986 Sayyid Ali Khamenei, who would three years later become Iran’s supreme leader, gave a speech at a major conference in Tehran on the Indian poet-philosopher Muhammad Iqbal. Iqbal lived in ...