Iran has lifted import bans on expensive goods like foreign cars and new iPhones, yielding to public demand for the products ...

A bold declaration of support by the American president for the Islamic Republic’s pro-democracy opposition would rattle the ...

Dua Lipa’s Service95 Book Club has shared details about February’s Monthly Read, The Bee Sting by Paul Murray. The Service95 ...

TEHRAN, Iran -- Tens of thousands of Iranians marked the anniversary of the country's 1979 Islamic Revolution, the first such ...

It is easy to chant that the Palestinians must have a state, that anything less is a moral outrage. Coddling them that way does them no favors. Rather, it has led them down a cul-de-sac. At the end of ...

They want to dismantle the institutions of government and create an autocratic state. They are doing that right now.

All architecture student Amirhossein Azizi wanted for his 19th birthday was the latest iPhone — and for Iran's cash-strapped theocracy, it was just the gift they needed as well.Just buying a ...

Only dismantling this theocracy can pave the way for peace, democracy, and liberation from this destructive empire. A member of Iranian militia forces (Basij) gestures during an anti-Israeli march ...

theocracy, white supremacy and more. Where do you think democracy fits on this list in 2025? Karel Creason, Bellevue The Seattle Times closes comments on particularly sensitive stories.

“American carnage” was gone. No phrase in Donald Trump’s second Inaugural Address distilled his distemper quite like those chilling words from his first. But the recriminations that gave ...

(A mob chants “Down with theocracy!” outside their apartment window.) Attempting to follow Muslim customs, each family member is at cross-purposes. The national ideal that should unite them is ...