Beyond the first ramparts of northern Iran’s Alborz Mountains, Gazorkhan village sits beneath an impenetrable-looking wall of jagged ridges in an elongated valley. The surrounding pomegranate ...

The Alborz Mountain Range The Alborz Mountains stretch from the borders of Azerbaijan along the Caspian Sea and continue southeast, forming a natural barrier between the Caspian coast and the central ...

High in the Alborz Mountains overlooking the Caspian Sea in Iran, our hiking guide Ali gathers ... Svelte skiiers slalomed down the slopes in the mountains north of Tehran. Nowadays, tourists ...

Iran’s Red Crescent Society also released photos of rescue workers unloading body bags from a helicopter on Saturday. An Iranian snowboarder descends a slope in the Alborz mountain range north ...

The architecture of northern Iran exhibits an extroverted quality. Buildings are designed to let in the sounds of rain, birds ...

Part memoir, part exposé, part cookbook, “The Evin Prison Bakers’ Club” reveals the hidden lives of women dissidents in the ...

Bordered by the Caspian Sea to the north ... are relatively affordable. Iran's topography is diverse and spectacular, with mountains like the Zagros and Alborz ranges, the UNESCO World Heritage ...

“The beautiful regions neighboring the Alborz and Zagros have reshaped Iran’s geography, creating conditions that allowed various civilizations to flourish,” he said. Izadi underscored the idea that ...

The Middle East and North African ... the centre of the Alborz Mountain Range, which stretches along the Iranian coast of the Caspian Sea. The summit of Mount Damavand, Iran's highest peak and ...

Eight climbers have died and at least seven others are missing after a blizzard and avalanches hit the mountains north of Tehran ... and Kolakchal peaks of the Alborz mountain chain overlooking ...