Islamic revolution

Burial prices in Iran skyrocket by up to 50% after Tehran council approves new tariff - report

For a 10 km journey, families will now need to pay 9.75 million rials, not including the costs of ritual washing, the shroud, cold storage before burial, and gravestone installation.

Graves of recently-buried people killed in US-Israeli airstrikes are pictured at Beheshta Zahra cemetery on the southern outskirts of Tehran on March 9, 2026.
A woman walks next to an anti-Israeli mural on a street after US President Donald Trump said that he had agreed to a two-week ceasefire with Iran, in Tehran, Iran, April 8, 2026.

Trump must consider terms for Iranian people in potential deal, expert warns - interview

Magen David Adom paramedics respond to a shrapnel hit site in central Israel following an Iranian missile attack, March 15, 2026.

Number of those wounded in Iran war matters more than number of those killed - analysis

Pedestrians pass in front of a billboard featuring an image of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on March 4, 2026 in Tehran, Iran; illustrative.

Who are the most senior Iranian officials left alive after weeks of Israeli-US strikes? - explainer


Under pressure, second-class Iranian Jews endorse radical candidate Ghalibaf for president

Tehran-born Iran expert Beni Sabti said that the country's Jewish community had never come out for a candidate before.

 Presidential candidate Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf speaks during a campaign event in Tehran

Biden's Iranian non-deal: The controversial path to engagement - opinion

“Rumors about a nuclear deal, interim or otherwise, are false and misleading,” State Department spokesman Matthew Miller told journalists in June.

 THEN-US PRESIDENT Barack Obama delivers a statement about the nuclear deal reached between Iran and six major world powers, as his vice president, Joe Biden, looks on, in the East Room of the White House, in July 2015.

Israel received critical Iran intel from IDF soldier's 15-year side project

SWO (res.) E. began monitoring Iranian communications in the 1960s, back when they were still an ally.

 IDF SWO (res.) E. is seen meeting with senior military officials to discuss Iran in this undated photo.

Iran accuses Israel, Western intelligence of planning civil war in Iran - foreign minister

The recent protests have turned into one of the boldest challenges to Iran's clerical leadership since the 1979 revolution.

 Demonstrators stand in front of a wall of the former U.S. embassy with anti-U.S. murals during the 42nd anniversary of the U.S. expulsion from Iran, in Tehran, Iran November 4, 2021

Iran court issues death sentence against man who killed two clerics

Officials said the attacker was a 21-year-old ethnic Uzbek from Afghanistan with radical Sunni views.

 Shiite clerics walk inside the shrine of Imam Ali ,on the first time of religious school called (al-Hawza al-Ilmiyyah) reopening since the the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, ,in the holy city of Najaf, Iraq November 10, 2021.

UAE de facto ruler sees Iran, Islamists as threat to ambitious Gulf safe haven

Mohammed began wielding power in a period when his half-brother President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed, who died on Friday.

 Women walk past the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, June 11, 2021

Revelers chant 'Death to Israel, US, UK' on Iran revolution anniversary

Some attendees held photos of the late general of Iran's elite IRGC, Qasem Soleimani, who was assassinated in an American drone strike in 2020.

Iranians ride on motorcycles as they participate in the celebration of the 43rd anniversary of the Islamic Revolution in Tehran, Iran, February 11, 2022.

Iran’s new elite are a major challenge to the West - analysis

New research from the Tony Blair Institute exposes a new class of highly indoctrinated technocrats in Iran.

 Will Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi lead the breakout to military-grade uranium?

Iranian IRGC Navy says it monitors US signals in Gulf

Admiral Alireza Tangsiri, commander of the IRGC navy, visited Farvar, Siri and Bumousi islands among other places recently.

This picture released by the U.S. Navy allegedly shows a ship of the Iranian Navy and members of the Iranian forces boarding civilian tanker WILA en-route to the UAE, in international waters in the Strait of Hormuz, August 12, 2020. Picture taken on August 12, 2020

US Islamic scholar calls on followers to rise up against 'tyrant' America

"You are seeing what a police state is like. You have to demand your rights from that tyrant," he said.

People take a knee in support of the Black Lives Matter movement outside the US Supreme Court in Washington, US, June 18, 2020