Hossein Alaei, a former senior commander of Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guards Corp (IRGC), has come under attack by his fellow guards and hard-liners over an article in which he appeared to draw an analogy between the rule of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the last days of the shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who was ousted from power in the 1979 revolution.

The release of 52 hostages Jan. 20, 1981, ended a 444-day crisis between what two countries?

Agartala, Jan 21 (IANS) India's Border Security Force (BSF) Saturday handed over to Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) one of their troopers who was held by villagers a day earlier for killing an Indian along the Tripura border, officials said.

The naked photos of Golshifteh Farahani emerged in the moment when Iranian youth are transforming the political and social language of their country, freeing themselves from any state-imposed discourse towards women in their "public" presence.

India’s Border Security Force (BSF) yesterday handed over to Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) one of their troopers who was held by villagers a day earlier for killing an Indian along the Tripura border, officials said.

LONDON (Reuters) - From Los Angeles to Paris to Tehran, disparate opposition groups with little in common but an aversion to Iran's clerical leaders are struggling to extract political gains from an escalation in Western sanctions. Numerous dissidents have hailed Western agreement on tougher measures to compel the Islamic Republic to rein in its nuclear program, but translating the upbeat mood ...

TEHRAN — A high-ranking former Iranian commander has sparked protests and angry denunciations by hard-liners and Revolutionary Guard leaders for publishing a commentary that critics said compares recent government crackdowns on the opposition to repression during the rule of the shah. Read full article >>

(Reuters) - Argentine President Cristina Fernandez has thyroid cancer and will undergo surgery next month, a government spokesman said, adding that the cancerous cells had not spread. Here are details of some world leaders who have had cancer while in office. * ARGENTINA'S FERNANDEZ: -- Fernandez was diagnosed with a papillary carcinoma that has not metastasized. An operation is scheduled to ...

Payvand.com organizes hundreds of titles in more than 40 categories in its Iranbooks section. Here is a list of top 10 sellers in 2011, reflecting our state of mind.

It all started in 1979, when Ayatollah Khomeini returned from Paris to Tehran after the exile of US backed Reza Shah and declared Iran as Islamic Republic after the huge public referendum. The then . . .