Iran News News Iran » Religion: Iran’s new ‘Virgin Mary’ metro station and what it says about faith in the Islamic Republic
According to the posts circulating online, the “Virgin Mary” station is located on Line 6 of the Tehran metro near the St. Sarkis Armenian Cathedral.
News Iran » Religion: Tehran opens Virgin Mary metro station amid scrutiny over Iran's Christian rights
Iran opens a metro station named after the Virgin Mary, calling it a gesture of coexistence, while critics cite ongoing discrimination against minorities. Tehran has inaugurated a new metro station ...
News Iran » Religion: Iran's new metro station honours Virgin Mary
Shiite Islam may be the official religion in Iran, but entering Tehran's brand-new Maryam Moghaddas metro station, you could be forgiven for feeling as if you're stepping inside a Christian ...
News Iran » Religion: How Iran Became an Islamic Republic
The political history may be familiar. But the theology of Shiite Islam matters too. When asked last month about his goals in attacking Iran, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated that he ...
News Iran » Religion: How ‘Cast Aside the Clouds’ Turns a Forbidden Love Story Into a Meditation on Faith and Unity
Director Mary Darling uses a Baha’i heroine’s persecution in Iran to explore moral courage, forgiveness and the hope of a more connected world.
News Iran » Religion: Baha'is most persecuted religion in Iran: U.N. investigator
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Members of the Baha'i community in Iran are the most persecuted religious minority in the Islamic Republic, where suppression of alternative faiths is growing worse, U.N. special ...
News Iran » Religion: Iran turns to religion for telefilm
LONDON — Fresh from tackling World War II and the Holocaust in local blockbuster “Zero Degree Turn,” (Variety, June 6, 2007), Iran’s state broadcaster IRIB (Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting) is ...
News Iran » Religion: Mamdani’s Coalition of Socialists and Islamists Could, Like Tehran’s ‘Red and Black’ Alliance in 1979, Boomerang on Leftists
As the leftist candidate stands on the brink of becoming New York City’s next mayor, Iran’s history offers a stark warning.
News Iran » Religion: Iran: Human rights investigators alarmed by ‘surge in repression’ and spike in executions following Israeli airstrikes
The Independent UN Fact-Finding Mission investigating alleged rights abuses in Iran says there has been a “surge in repression and extraordinary spike in executions” there since Israeli hit the ...
News Iran » Religion: Iran to enforce dress code with 80,000 new morality police officers
Iran plans to mobilize 80,000 new morality police officers in Tehran to enforce compliance with Islamic dress codes that require women to wear their headscarves more consistently, according to an ...
News Iran » Religion: Why is Iran clinging to its nuclear weapons program?
The strength of the Islamic Republic's regional proxies is a fraction of what it used to be, and international nuclear sanctions have been reapplied. Still, the regime in Tehran says it won't ...