Here are some key headlines to emerge from the Islamic Republic.
President Barack Obama made outreach to the Islamic Republic a cornerstone of his foreign policy, but it may not work out as planned.
A gallery of photos from the protests that ensued after Iran's presidential election on June 12, 2009.
A profile of the Iranian who became a symbol of the struggle for democracy in the 1999 student protests.
How does the power structure in the Islamic Republic really work?
It's not new news that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has tried to capitalize on Christmas: take, for example, his 2006 Christmas message, still on his non-updated Web site. But 2008's message, carried on TV in the United Kingdom, ruffled some feathers.
Imagine a whole national holiday dedicated to storming the U.S. Embassy and taking 52 Americans hostage for a mind-numbing 444 days!
L.A. native Esha Momeni, a graduate student at California State University, Northridge, was in Tehran visiting family and working on her thesis, which involved interviewing women about their rights (or lack of them, more accurately) in Iran.
Iranians went to the polls in parliamentary elections, but don't be quick to call them free or fair.
A primer on Iran's leaders, geography, demographics, economy, military, infrastructure, and more.
