Salman Rushdie has pinpointed the moment authors should start worrying about AI. Speaking at the 2025 Hay Festival, which has partnered with The Independent f or a second year, Rushdie said he likes ...

After many years, we have gathered here at Bemina’s Imambargah to honor the memory of this great revolutionary leader.” ...

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the global nuclear watchdog, has apparently given a confidential report to the 35 members of the board. It ...

Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi and his staff have visited Imam Khomeini’s mausoleum to renew allegiance to the ideals of the ...

Born Nicholas Bowen Headon in 1955 in Bromley (England), he joined the iconic English band from their second album in 1978.

The Trump administration seems intent on undermining America’s ability to make human rights a significant element of its ...

Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi was given a hero's welcome by supporters on his return to Tehran on Monday after winning the ...

The 77-year-old Booker Prize-winning author gave evidence during the trial around the 2022 attack in New York.

When Ayatollah Khomeini took power in 1979, many believed the Islamic Republic was a short-term glitch in Iran’s history, a theocratic typo soon to be corrected. The optimistic opposition flashed ...

Iran’s Assembly of Experts has reportedly selected Mojtaba Khamenei, the second son of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as his successor. The decision, made during a secretive meeting on ...

Monday, June 3, marks 35 years since the death of the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. The enigmatic religious leader-cum-revolutionary, who passed away in ...