Welcome to the Iranian History Initiative at LSE. The Iranian History Initiative (IHI) was established in 2024 to promote the study of modern Iranian history at LSE. The IHI brings together faculty ...

To register your interest please contact [email protected] providing details of the course you are teaching. The importance of the Safavid period (1501–1736) in Iranian history has been ...

To register your interest please contact [email protected] providing details of the course you are teaching. The Cambridge History of Iran is an eight-volume survey of Iranian history and ...

Scholars debate the dates and geography of Zoroaster’s life, but his religion was practiced at the time of the earliest historically attested Iranian dynasties, the Medes and the Persians. Media lay ...

An expansive essay on the history of Iran through the first great global age, illustrating periods of economic and political might and as well as periods of weakness and disjunction. Through centuries ...

Most countries don't tolerate traitors, but Iran is particularly sensitive.

Iran’s pursuit of nuclear technology began in the early 1970s, fuelled by oil wealth and the Shah of Iran’s vision for ...

The 56-year-old is suspected of being Mohammad Reza Kolahi Samadi, who was accused of planting a bomb which resulted in the deadliest attack in modern Iranian history. Iran denies any involvement.

As Iran faces increasing tensions with the West and turmoil at home, a new exhibition at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary ...

Each year the Iranian History Initiative invites a world-leading historian of modern Iran to deliver the Gholam Reza Nikpay Annual Lecture at LSE. This annual lecture was established in 2023 to honour ...

Iran denies reports of Elon Musk meeting with its UN ambassador to ease US tensions as reported by The New York Times ...

The message came in response to a September letter from the US warning against making any threats against Trump’s life ...