Roozbeh Farahanipour and his son, Damavand, wave a pre-revolution Iranian flag outside Farahanipour's Delphi Greek restaurant in Westwood. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times) Roozbeh Farahanipour sat ...

“The stage is my first homeland,” 75-year-old Iranian singer Googoosh tells Newsweek from her Los Angeles home, noting that her second is Iran. A child performer who became one of the defining voices ...

Roozbeh Farahanipour sat in the blue-green glow of his Westwood restaurant's 220-gallon saltwater aquarium and worried about Iran, his voice accented in anguish. It was Sunday morning, and the ...

A Swiss court has ordered Israel to pay $1.1 billion to Iran over a pre-Islamic Revolution oil debt. The debt harkens back to a 1968 agreement in which the government-controlled National Iranian Oil ...

Through revolution and upheaval, the program has become intertwined with the country’s security and national identity. By Mark Landler Mark Landler covered nuclear negotiations between the United ...

The Islamic Republic of Iran is a constant source of anguish for its own people, its neighbors, and the broader world. The government likely executes more people than any state except China. It ...

In October 1971, approximately 2,500 years after Cyrus the Great founded the Persian Empire, the man who would become its final king laid a wreath at his tomb in Pasargadae. Before a large crowd of ...