Independent media, civil society, the rule of law – these are the things that Iranians truly need. And there are ways for the west to help secure them, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon ...

Explore the impact of recent protests in Iran, highlighting economic struggles, state repression, and geopolitical tensions ...

After a week of the largest nationwide demonstrations in years, the streets of Iran have once again fallen silent, subdued by ...

A three-year-old startup enriches uranium using lasers instead of centrifuges. The US is working fast to once again enrich ...

War correspondent Scott Anderson on the country's protests, the revolution's legacy and what a deal could mean ...

January 1966 was an eventful month. India's Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri died in Tashkent (now Uzbekistan's national ...