Safdar Jung, the Persian-born Nawab of Awadh and later Prime Minister of a declining Mughal Empire, shaped one of the most ...

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Iran has been battling its worst drought in more than six decades. A blaze in the north has now eaten through parts of the ...

For regional actors, strategies aimed at isolating Iran have proven as costly as they are illusory; the Islamic Republic has emerged as an indispensable pillar in the region’s strategic balance, ...

Since the early twentieth century, Western think tanks have concluded that Iran’s greatest source of soft power lies not in its natural wealth or military strength, but in the unbreakable bond between ...

Many Iranians point to mismanagement and corruption as the root of the economy’s difficulties. In front of billboards urging ...

Iran seized a Marshall Islands-flagged oil tanker as it travelled through the narrow Strait of Hormuz on Friday (November 14, 2025), a U.S. official said, turning the ship into Iranian territorial ...

Learn how architecture shapes public discourse on local issues through the 2025 Politecnico di Torino Architecture Students ...