What Trump And His Religious Supporters Can Learn From Cyrus The Great
by Farid ParsaApril 16, 2019
Many of Trumps’ supporters who delve into their Bible from time to time have managed to see the likeness of Cyrus the Great in President...
An Apology For A Different Plane Crash, 30 Years Later
by Medea BenjaminMarch 14, 2019
The tragic Ethiopian Airline plane crash recalls another passenger plane crash some 30 years ago. The latter, however, was not due to a mechanical malfunction...
History, Religion,
Zarathustra: A Prophet For Our Time
by Farid ParsaMarch 11, 2019
Iranians have wondered about the meaning of life and have gazed into the night sky searching for answers like many other people on the planet...
Territorial Changes Of Persia/Iran In The 19th And 20th Centuries
by The IranianFebruary 22, 2019
An Arab Perspective On Iran’s Islamic Revolution
by Dr Mustafa FetouriFebruary 14, 2019
What started as series of public demonstrations and strikes across Iran nearly two years earlier peaked on 11 February, 1979, with the Islamic Revolution of...
History, Life,
Iran And Ireland’s Common Histories Recalled
by Patsy McGarryFebruary 14, 2019
The common histories of Ireland and Iran in fighting for independence were recalled on Monday at an event in Dublin marking the 40th anniversary of...
What Was France’s Role In The 1979 Iranian Revolution? (Video)
by Al JazeeraFebruary 11, 2019
In 1979, Ayatollah Khomeini returned to Iran from exile in France. Paris had hoped that Khomeini would bring democracy to Iran in 1979, but relations...
Fruits Of The Earth: A Look At The 40th Anniversary Of The Revolution Through Hoveyda’s Demise
by Pouneh SaeediFebruary 10, 2019
These days a lot of us hyphenated Iranians have been going down the memory lane to make sense of the euphoria, mania or what-have-you that...
Shah’s Former Foreign Minister Zahedi Cautions Against ‘Regime Change’
A former Iranian foreign minister and ambassador to the United States from the Shah-era shared his thoughts on the 40th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution...
Britain And The Iranian Revolution: Arms & Secret Deals
by Mark CurtisFebruary 9, 2019
Forty years ago, the Iranian revolution sent a shockwave through the Middle East, overthrowing the Western client, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and bringing to power...
Why Were The Iranian Empires So Successful?
by The IranianFebruary 8, 2019
Iranian civilization is among the most ancient and its empires were some of the earliest and strongest in history. In this animated historical documentary we...
Forty Years That Changed Iran’s History
by M. K. BhadrakumarFebruary 3, 2019
The annual event known as the Ten Days of Dawn marking the political celebration of the Islamic Revolution in Iran on February 11 has begun....
Food, History,
How Iran Made Ice Cream 2,000 Years Ago
by The IranianJanuary 7, 2019
Iran claims to be the birthplace of ice cream, but how could it be made 2,000 years ago? The Travel Show visits an underground space used to...
Last Sassanids And The Anti-Caliphate Alliance With Tang (Video)
by The IranianDecember 28, 2018
The Sassanid Empire was weakened after the war of 602-628 against the Byzantine Empire and their defeats at al-Qadisiyyah and Nahavand at the hands of the Caliphate...
It’s A Woman’s World. Female Travellers to Persia. Dr Elizabeth Ness MacBean Ross (1878-1915)
by Farid ParsaDecember 10, 2018
Elizabeth grew up in the Scottish Highlands. Her father was the manager of the Bank of Scotland. Along with two other of her siblings she...
by Mohammad MazhariDecember 5, 2018
Zoroastrianism, as one of the oldest religions still in existence and probably the world’s first monotheistic faith, had been the state religion of three Persian...
From Persia With Love: How An Empress Transformed Iran With Art
Dubbed “the Jackie Kennedy of the Middle East”, Farah Pahlavi built a world-class collection of modern art before she and her husband were exiled. Now 80, she reflects on her beloved country.
Despite Tension Between Iran And Israel, Iran’s Jewish Minority Feels At Home
by PBS New HourNovember 28, 2018
Jewish people have called Iran home for nearly 3,000 years. The Trump administration and U.S. ally Israel often depict the Iranian government as composed of...
It’s A Woman’s World: Female Travellers To Persia. Ella C. Sykes (1863-1939)
by Farid ParsaNovember 28, 2018
It’s hard to explain how some one from another country becomes interested or curious with a different culture which is in sharp contrast to hers...
Did Israel Kill Yasser Arafat? Stunning Investigation Exposes Israel’s Secretive Assassination Program
by Democracy NowNovember 24, 2018
Israeli intelligence officials desperately tried to prevent Ronen Bergman from writing “Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations,” a stunning book...
It’s A Woman’s World: Female Travellers To Persia. Vita Sackville-West (1892 – 1962)
Vita Sackville-West was a poet, novelist, travel writer, diarist and garden designer. Her travels to Persia came about as the result of her husband accepting...
The First Female, European Travel Writer To Persia: Lady Mary Leonora Sheil (1825-1869)
Mary Sheil is the first European, female travel writer who travelled and lived in Persia and left behind a valuable travel journal which later was...
It’s A Woman’s World: Female Travellers To Persia. Annemarie Schwarzenbach (1908-1942)
by Farid ParsaOctober 30, 2018
Annemarie Schwarzenbach lived life on a fast lane. At 23 she completed her doctorate in history at the University of Zurich. She was a journalist,...
It’s A Woman’s World: Female Travellers to Persia. Dieulafoy, Jane (1851-1916)
Jane Dieulafoy was an accidental archaeologist who achieved so much in the field. After she married her husband, Marcel, the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1) broke out...
Books, History,
Iran’s Definitive Account Of The Iran-Iraq War: Written By A Female Iraqi Kurd
by Ramin MazaheriOctober 16, 2018
Thirty years after the end of Iran’s “War of Sacred Defense” Iran’s “military parades” are attacked, but the world still doesn’t really comprehend exactly what...
Was Khosrow Parviz Responsible For The Arab Conquest Of The Sassanid Empire?
by Farid ParsaOctober 9, 2018
Prophet Mohammad and Khosrow Parviz were born only months apart (570, 571 A.D) and both died within a few years of each other. Arab tradition...
It’s A Woman’s World: Female Travellers To Persia. Sylvia Anne Matheson (1916-2006)
Sylvia Anne Terry -Smith was born in London, 1916. She married to Angus Matheson and later to Henry Schofield with whom she lived in Iran...
It’s A Woman’s World: Female Travelers to Persia. Freya Stark (1893-1993)
by Farid ParsaSeptember 30, 2018
Freya Stark was born in Paris 1893 and raised in Italy and England. Her father was English and mother Italian. She spoke English, French, Italian...
Arts and Literature, History,
Rubāʿiyāt Of Fernando Pessoa
Fernando Pessoa was born in Portugal in 1888. A year before he died, Message, was published. It was a patriotic collection of poems in three...