But the 1990s was also a decade of deepening economic disparity. Rafsanjani's "economic reconstruction" involved the liberalization of prices and the exchange rate, as well as the cutting of subsidies ...

The 12-day war between Iran and Israel may not have transformed the opaque rule of the Islamic Republic, but it did make some things newly visible in Tehran. However briefly, a city within a city, ...

Announcing this on Thursday, Mostafa Fatemi, the director of domestic tourism development office at the tourism ministry explained the impact of recent investments in the field of urban tourism in ...

Iran faces one of its most challenging water crises in recent memory. The capital city of Tehran, home to millions, now stands at the center of a potentially catastrophic situation that could reshape ...

The Tehran city council has elected a little-known technocrat to the politically sensitive post of mayor, Iranian state media report. Pirouz Hanachi, 54, is the third mayor of Tehran to be elected ...

Beneath the gloom, a sense of something churning. [ passport ] Last month I finally got the chance to fly back to Iran for the first time since the June 2009 presidential election and its historic ...

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