Episode 43 - Silver plate showing Shapur II. Silver plate showing Shapur II (fourth century AD), made in Iran. Many of you will recognise the resounding opening music of the film ...

The suspension of Sepanta Niknam, an Iranian Zoroastrian councillor suspended on religious grounds, has polarised opinion among senior officials of the Islamic Republic and led to a campaign on ...

Near Ferdouzi street, in the south of the capital, sits one of the largest and most emblematic religious complexes of the Zoroastrian minority scattered across Iran. Daily services are held in the ...

The Iranian government continues to persecute religious minorities, including groups supposedly given special recognition by the country’s constitution: Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrians.

In Iran a priest named Zoroaster reformed the Indo-Iranian polytheistic faith along ethical lines and preached a religion with one god, Ahura Mazda, and an underlying dualistic theology pitting Good ...

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Iran’s new hijab and chastity law has spurred much outrage from women, criticism from activists and opposition from its reformist President Masoud Pezeshkian. But what do we know about the law? And ...

TEHRAN - The ancient festival of Mehrgan, celebrated in Iran and Tajikistan, has been inscribed on UNESCO's Representative ...

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