Mohammad Reza Pahlavi

Before they were ousted by the 1979 Islamic revolution, Iran's royal family enjoyed a lavish lifestyle with a taste for fast cars quite unlike any ever built.

Now, after half a century hidden away, the royal racers are back on show, with the Iran Historical Car Museum drawing in thousands since it opened to the public in recent weeks.

Turkish law enforcement forces have seized a walking stick, which is said to have been gifted to Mustafa Kemal Atatürk by then Iranian Shah Reza Pahlavi, soon after it was announced that it would be sold at an online auction.

Iran needs a unifying voice in opposition and “I am that voice,” said Reza Pahlavi, last heir to the overthrown Pahlavi Dynasty, which opposes the Islamic Republic of Iran from exile. Pahlavi has also expressed support for a parliamentary democracy in Iran amid demonstrations that have spread across the country creating political turmoil.

Declassified documents released last week shed light on the Central Intelligence Agency’s central role in the 1953 coup that brought down Iranian Prime Minister Muhammad Mossadegh, fueling a surge of nationalism which culminated in the 1979 Iranian Revolution and poisoning U.S.-Iran relations into the 21st century.

Deputy Chief of Staff of the Iranian Army Mostafa Izadi says his country has evidence of direct support of the United States to Islamic State (IS).

Some of the world's most expensive and rarely seen modern art, including works by the Americans Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol, went on display Nov. 21 in a major exhibition in Iran.

Iranian authorities have offered daily Hürriyet journalists a sneak peak of former queen Farah Pahlavi's collection of modern art, which included Picassos, Pollocks and Warhols, preserved next to the portraits of Ayatollah Khomeini.

Justice Minister Bekir Bozda? said, ?Fethullah Gülen was planning to stage a return like Khomeini.?

If one year ago, anybody from the main opposition Republican People?s Party (CHP) had said, ?Fethullah Gülen is planning to stage a return like Khomeini,? then Bekir Bozda? would have snapped at him, ?Come on now, you secular paranoiac.?

Three golden artefacts from the 2nd-3rd centuries AD and the Chrysler limousine that was offered as a gift to Nicolae Ceausescu in 1974 by the Shah of Iran are the stars of Artmark's Christmas Auction that is to take place on December 9 at the Hilton Hotel in Bucharest.

Eleven Iranians accused of sending insulting SMS text messages about Islamic republic founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini have been arrested in the southern province of Shiraz