I don't know." Ask a Persian? "Why no, my friend! I hate poetry! It's so antiquated!" "Oh. Do you know any good poems?" "Yes, ...

It's now largely forgotten that in the early 1900s, nearly a third of the Arabian Peninsula was under British India.

AS tensions flare up between modern-day Iran and Israel — through drone warfare, cyberattacks and regional proxy clashes — ...

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Attacking Iran is framed by colonial narratives that erase its rich intellectual history, justifying violence through a ‘conquest foretold’ ...

In the first few hours of the attacks, Israel incapacitated a regime dedicated to its destruction. The Mossad intelligence ...

Once pragmatic allies under the geopolitical pragmatism of the Shah’s Iran, the two nations are now locked in a theological and strategic standoff with global implications. Understanding this rivalry ...

He also names Persia, unequivocally understood as modern-day Iran, which even in Ezekiel’s time was a formidable eastern empire. Persia’s inclusion in the Gogian alliance is striking in its clarity.

The naming of the Indian Ocean has sparked debate for centuries, with Indonesia and Pakistan objecting to India's prominence ...

Map of the Persian Empire, centered on Iran, from Historical Atlas, William R. Shepherd, 1911. Credit: Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain This region is roughly equivalent to the ancient land of Persis.

Of all murky lunacies, redoing two failed nuclear talks with a wicked regime is the most comic, the most idiotic, the most perilous. Opinion ...