The name Iran comes from the Indo-Iranian roots of the people who built early Persian civilisation.

Today, India, despite global scrutiny, has maintained a principled partnership with Iran, balancing its energy and strategic ...

Many assumed Iran is an Arab country due to geography and religion, but the truth is rooted in a 2,500-year-old Persian ...

For centuries in Iran, each Jewish community had its own language. Judeo-Iranian languages include Esfāhāni, Yazdi, Kermāni, Shīrāzi, Hamedāni, Kāshāni, Nehavandi, Borujerdi, Khunsāri and Golpāygān.

A team of researchers, with a member each from the University of Tehran, Eastern Kentucky University and the University of Bologna working with another independent researcher, has claimed to have ...

The University of Chicago's Oriental Institute is returning a set of 300 ancient Iranian tablets, documents that provide details of the inner workings of the administration of the ancient Persian ...

From the earliest movements of wandering tribes to the rise of organised kingdoms, the lands that are today India and Iran have long moved along intertwined paths.