2018 was a busy year for Iran’s former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who began a transformation from statesman to opposition leader. Ahmadinejad is trying to restore the popularity he lost ...

What struck me as I saw “The Seed of the Sacred Fig,” which is set in modern Tehran, is how 15 years after the Green Movement, the fire of the uprising is still burning.

Several Iranian media outlets have reported that Amir Hossein Maghsoudloo, better known as Tataloo, has been sentenced to ...

Iran on Tuesday reversed its decision to ban the US news network, CNN, from Iranian airwaves following an apology from CNN for mistranslating statements of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Nearly 67 years later, Iran’s then president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, described Israel as “a disgraceful blot” that should be “wiped off the face of the earth”. He told students in Tehran ...

An Iranian government spokesperson announced that the country is moving its capital city to the south by the coast, inciting both support and backlash.

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

He reckons that lack of seaport at Tehran compels Iran to transport raw material from ports in the south towards north, for manufacturing in Tehran's industrial belt and then ship finished product ...

However, the idea of relocating the capital is not new. It was first proposed during Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's presidency in the early 2000s and has been revisited by President Masoud Pezeshkian as a ...