With a population of over 90 million, Iran ranks 17th globally in both geographic size and population and is the sixth-largest country in Asia. Iran is divided into five regions with 31 provinces. Tehran is the …

4 days ago · Iran, a mountainous, arid, and ethnically diverse country of southwestern Asia. The country maintains a rich and distinctive cultural and social continuity dating back to the Achaemenian period, …

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8 hours ago · The economy is wrecked, allies deposed, a once-fearsome militia humiliated. But Khamenei is holding the line while he still can.

2 days ago · Iran has seized a foreign tanker allegedly carrying 6 million liters of "smuggled diesel" in the Gulf of Oman, Iranian state media said on Friday.

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2 days ago · The Islamic republic no longer controls the symbolic universe that once anchored its legitimacy.

Dec 10, 2025 · Iran’s capital received its first rain in months Wednesday, offering minimal relief from a historic drought threatening to force government relocation by year’s end. The driest autumn in over ...

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