As power now passes from Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to his son, the system created to abolish dynastic rule may end up ...

What is Shia Islam? From the succession dispute after Prophet Muhammad to Karbala, sects and global communities, here is how ...

M uslim unity is a dream — and a nightmare, too. It’s as much desired by many Muslims as feared by non-Muslims. Desired, not ...

From the state Assembly to students and farm unions, several sections in Punjab have expressed solidarity with Iran.

Veteran director Davoud Mirbagheri has reacted to the U.S.-Israeli attacks to Iran, which have martyred the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, and a group of ...

Preparations ordered by the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, before his assassination on February 28th, proceeded as ...

As a student of international relations and someone who has followed the Middle East closely for decades, it frustrates me to see how quickly public debate collapses into tribalism.

For many Muslims in India, the war is being understood primarily through the questions of sovereignty, Palestine and the ...

Philosopher Stéphanie Roza and political scientist Amirpasha Tavakkoli explain how, throughout the 20th century, the political turmoil in Iran, torn between modernity and anti-modernity, ultimately ...

I am now camping out in Doha for the ninth day since 28 February. The Qatar airspace is shut and padlocked. The authorities have thrown away the key. Limited numbers of passengers are being flown to ...

The Shi’ite branch of Islam, which has flourished as the official religion of the Islamic Republic of Iran under the various ayatollahs for the last half century, believes in the return of the ...