The Pope Should Pontificate About Something Else The U.S. and allied nations should sanction Iran for its persecution of religious minorities. The Iranian government continues to persecute ...

Post-revolutionary Iran often is depicted as a society devoid and incapable of self-criticism that is dominated by a monolithic view of religion and politics. A revolutionary Islamic ideology is ...

Other pre-Iranian language are unknown. The ancient Iranians gradually developed an identity separate from the related peoples who moved on to occupy northern India. However, their cultural and ...

Three Christians rearrested for their faith in Iran were subjected to torture and asked to write letters renouncing their belief in Jesus amid the reality of a sixfold increase in prison sentences ...

Through centuries of foreign assimilation, Iran also retained its distinct cultural identity. The prophet Muhammad proclaimed the religion of Islam in a series of revelations (which came to be called ...