One man's life on the streets of Tehran. Adjacent to Chamrun Parkway, there is a small square known as Street Sweeper Park. A bronze statue of a street sweeper, holding a broom, overlooks a filthy ...

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On Sunday, the directorate’s chief, Amir Karamzadeh, detailed the scope of ongoing restoration efforts during his visit to the mosque. Emergency repairs to the main dome structure, restoration of the ...

Education: Studied under the future Ayatollah Khomeini at the Islamic seminary in Qom, Iran June 4, 1989-present - Is provisionally elected supreme leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran after the ...

[TEHRAN BUREAU] Comment When Mehdi Karroubi went public with information that protesters had been raped in detention, officials were shocked into speechlessness. How could one of the insiders betray ...

Brigadier General Seyyed Hojjatollah Qoreishi has been appointed as the new deputy coordinator of the Islamic Revolutionary ...

Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, Leader of the Islamic Revolution, says that scientific innovation and political thought were ...

“Literary Struggle against the Distortion of Contemporary History” and “Depiction of Realities and Enlightenment on the Pahlavi Regime” were the main topics of the first edition of the awards named ...

Nasr, a professor at George Washington University and a living legend in Islamic studies, was commissioned by Harper San Francisco to write this book after the attacks of September 11. Presented as ...

1962 - Along with Khomeini, begins his involvement with protests, opposing the policies of the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. 1977 - Along with other clerics, forms the Combatant Clerics ...