Why it's incredible: The landscape looks crumpled and folded from above. Iran's folded rocks are rugged mountain ridges and valleys to the southwest of the Caspian Sea. They are an extension of the ...

TEHRAN, Iran — Rain fell for the first time in months in Iran's capital Wednesday, providing a brief respite for the parched ...

Iranian news has reported the country has seized an oil tanker ship allegedly carrying six million litres of contraband ...

Associated Press WriterKHORRAMABAD, Iran (AP) -- An Iranian passenger jet crashed Tuesday in the mountains of western Iran amid snow and rain, and all 118 passengers and crew on board were believed ...

Deep beneath the hills of central Iran, Tehran has ramped up its production of enriched uranium. A recent report by the United Nations’ nuclear agency, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), ...

The Pentagon says Iran’s supplying of short-range ballistic missiles to Russia is a "deeply concerning development" that threatens European security and shows how Iran’s destabilization efforts are ...

Ancient Mesopotamia and Iran are usually treated separately or as part of a much broader "Ancient Near East." However, the developments that lie at the root of our own world--farming, cities, writing, ...

TEHRAN, Iran -- A magnitude-6.2 earthquake jolted a sparsely populated mountainous province near Iran's border with Iraq on Monday, Iranian state television reported. There were no reports of ...

In the mountains of southern Iran, a new and potentially deadly species was discovered. Saman, et al (2025) Diversity In the mountains of southern Iran, a new species has been discovered — and it ...

Iran's folded rocks are rugged mountain ridges and valleys to the southwest of the Caspian Sea. They are an extension of the Greater Caucasus mountain belt, which also stretches along Russia's border ...