The Iranian revolution
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A new exhibition in Rome charts the enduring artistic life of Iran over the turbulence of its past fifty years.
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Street thugs were often the dominant characters in commercial Iranian cinema - especially in the decade before the revolution. The love interest was either pure and veiled, or unveiled and up to no good. ShahreFarang has this collection of art gracing the record sleeves of FilmFarsi music
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Iran leader releases Hossein Derakhshan, suspected of spying for Israel and given prison term of 19 years for ‘insulting Islam’
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US small business Navid Khonsari, immigrant entrepreneur, revisits his roots in video game about the 1979 Iranian Revolution
Navid Khonsari is going back to his Iranian roots to produce a new video game, 1979 Revolution -
Navid Khonsari immigrated from Iran to the US and created the production company, Ink Stories in Brooklyn. Now they're building a video game documentary about the seminal 1979 Iranian revolution
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Singing eulogies has become a profitable career path in the Islamic republic, with performer demands increasingly reading like a rock star rider
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Reformist students have welcomed the initial steps taken by President Hassan Rouhani and morale is relatively high. But is unrest brewing?
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The march toward modernity coincided with Ayatollah Khomeini’s exile to Najaf in 1964, and the assassination of the secular prime minister Hassan Ali Mansour just a few months later. Meanwhile foreign firms, especially American ones, poured into the country. And for a period until the beginning of the revolution in 1978, old and new coexisted in seeming harmony
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A commemorative literary series pays tribute to fallen soldiers and the war wives who grappled with loss and grief long after the conflict came to an end
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Music and theatre directors are in a tug of war with hardliners who find women singing solo too provocative
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German photographer Casey Hugelfink had access to the Islamic republic in the dark decade after the 1979 revolution, throughout the Iran-Iraq war, when the country was sealed off to reporters and most of the world
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A trip to the coast after the revolution felt like an escape to freedom, but a few things got in the way
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Women are prohibited from swimming in the sea unless it’s in designated areas hidden from view. Or they can watch the men and children have fun
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Isis violence in Iraq, and its vicious hatred of Shia Muslims, have alarmed Iranians and encouraged many to call for military intervention
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A schoolteacher provides a window on the lives of Arabs and other ethnic minorities in region known as the 'birthplace of the nation'
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British employees of the Anglo Persian Oil Company first introduced Iranians to football, the Shah invested heavily in the sport as part of his modernization drive and in 1979 the revolution put a stop to things for a while
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Curator Ali Ettehad explains the popularity of Performance Art in Iran and why he was inspired by the narrator of One Thousand and One Nights to launch his own series
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Photographer Jai Brodie meets some of the capital's biggest stars, in a country where rock music is illegal and brandishing an electric guitar could land you in trouble with the police
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Iran's youth talk of social isolation as they're forced to navigate a dual existence – in a closed society and the seemingly more open space on the web
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Subtle renderings of Persian legends, archetypes, and ancient visual motifs into contemporary life, Nasrollahi's work is often concerned with profound psychological questions
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The fate of the Baha’i minority is not theirs alone, they represent all Iranians who do not conform in one way or another, says Ramin Ahmadi
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From Reyhaneh Jabbari, to Balal, famous cases are shifting the discourse on human rights in the Islamic republic
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Speeches referencing the Green Movement and valuing ‘young filmmakers’ repeatedly censored at this year’s Fajr film festival
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Paying homage to the revolution is a complicated affair for many in Tehran, where the political and economic flux of the past year has left even the most ardent regime supporters confused about their allegiances
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‘Fajr isn’t about discovering new talent, but showcasing the old. That’s how organizers have always sold tickets and gathered crowds’
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Are there lessons for the Islamic republic in the fall of the Safavid empire?
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The prospect of improved relations with the US is a litmus test of just how far the Islamic republic is prepared to go to transform itself
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A nation forced to erase its personal history is condemned to a broader historical amnesia and doomed to repeat its mistakes
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The new project is directed by Grand Theft Auto creative Navid Khonsari and voiced by Argo and Homeland cast members
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Thousands rally in front of US embassy in Tehran in show of defiance against Hassan Rouhani's bid to ease tensions
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Mohammad Javad Zarif due to meet US secretary of state at UN in highest-level meeting since Iran's 1979 revolution
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When Ayatollah Khomeini rode an Islamist wave to create a new republic, mass executions and war with Iraq followed
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Jonathan Derbyshire on convulsions that created today's multipolar world
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A compelling study argues that the rise of four ideologues to the world stage in 1979 had far-reaching consequences, writes Ian Thomson
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Sahar Delijani's parents were jailed and her uncle was killed by Iran's Islamic Republic in the 1980s. She tells Laura Barnett how the painful episode became her first novel, Children of the Jacaranda Tree