Tehran was once sold as Iran’s great modern capital, a city of glamour, growth, and ambition. Now it is a place of blackouts, water shortages, toxic air, failing infrastructure, and a population pushed far beyond what the city was built to handle.

(THE CONVERSATION) Fall marks the start of Iran’s rainy season, but large parts of the country have barely seen a drop as the nation faces one of its worst droughts in decades. Several key reservoirs are nearly dry, and Tehran, the nation’s capital, is ...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The United States and Iran ended a historic round of face-to-face talks early Sunday without reaching an agreement and the fate of the fragile, two-week ceasefire still unclear. Vice President JD Vance, who led the U.S. delegation during ...

(NewsNation) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday said Iran is no longer a threat to the United States and called the U.S. military operation in the Middle East a “capital-V military victory.” Sirens rang out in the Middle East overnight ...

Iranian Revolutionary Guard members now regularly show the public in Tehran how to handle Kalashnikov-style assault rifles. Parades through the capital feature military vehicles mounted with belt-fed Soviet-era machine guns.