Before I enlist the words that English has borrowed from Persian, I would like to share with you some musings on borrowings and the words English has borrowed, which Robert Claiborne has penned in his ...

Trying to keep abreast of unfolding events in Iran, but finding your Farsi is a bit rusty? Google announced today it has added Farsi to the list of languages Google Translate can convert automatically ...

Journalist Amir Taheri, a prize-winning writer who escaped Iran during the Islamic Revolution which brought the ayatollahs to power, says there are significant differences between the texts published ...