In 480 BCE, the Persian army defeated the Greek forces at the Battle of Thermopylae and invaded parts of Greece. When all seemed lost, a young Athenian politician named Themistocles proposed an ...

Alexander the Great established himself as Emperor of Asia and urged his generals to marry Persian women in the Susa weddings ...

Amyntas of Macedonia, the first recorded Macedonian king, is linked to the assassination of Persian envoys in a tale of intrigue.

Though Iran has attempted to move towards democracy in fits and starts since the Constitutional Revolution of 1905, any genuine advance forward has been met with unending opposition, mainly ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. THE HISTORY of Jewish-Persian friendship goes back over 2,500 years, and it is unlikely there is any other example of two ...