In this BBC Persian film for the BBC World Service, former child soldiers share their untold stories and deeply personal ...

It was clear what was happening: the tensions with Iraq had finally snapped, and Saddam Hussein was now launching a ...

Mohsen M Milani’s book charts the Islamic Republic’s rise to ‘peak power’ and the fall-out from Hamas’s assault on Israel ...

Generally speaking, starting a war out of the blue is a bad idea. This is the lesson, if such was needed, of the utterly ...

Yuval Vagdani woke up on Jan. 4 to a flurry of missed calls from family members and Israel's Foreign Ministry with an urgent ...

As Iran’s economic, regional, and domestic standing deteriorates, senior and junior officials alike will begin to realize ...

Iran-born actress Sahel Rosa recently published two books to raise awareness among Japanese of the realities facing child ...

Several leaders of the Islamic Republic have recently come out in favor of negotiating with the US to have the sanctions on ...

Iran, meanwhile, deepened its relations during the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s, driven by an understanding that both Tehran and Damascus opposed Western interference in the region. Syria became an ...

The extraordinary details have come to light because thousands of State Department documents dealing with the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war have just been declassified and released under the Freedom of ...