By Batool Subeiti

Taxi tales: Young Khamenei's engagement with citizens for better solutions

LONDON - Not much is known about Ayatollah Seyed Mojtaba Khamenei. He was not a man in the spotlight and his father held the reins of leadership that charted the general course for serving the people, framed by dignity and pride. Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei did not highlight his children, though they are several, and Mojtaba is one of them.

By Xavier Villar

Endurance as political form: Reading the Leader’s Nowruz message for 1405

MADRID – Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei’s Nowruz message for the Iranian year 1405 was delivered in a context defined by sustained external pressure. Since the joint U.S.–Israeli air campaign in early 2026 and the subsequent assassination of Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, Iran has faced a continuous combination of military, economic and regional challenges.

By Afshin Majlesi

Nowruz in the shadow of war

This year, Nowruz does not feel the way it used to. Many things still look the same on the outside. The Haft-Seen table is ready, just like every year. There is green wheat, flowers, a mirror, a copy of the Holy Quran, and a glass bowl with small red fish swimming quietly.

By Maryam Tavassoli

Nowruz, a unique opportunity to reinforce national unity

Despite the ongoing U.S.-Israeli imposed war, people from all walks of life in the country are preparing to celebrate Nowruz, the Persian New Year, with the universal message of boosting unity and peace among people.

By Mehdi Garshasbi

The power of Nowruz: a renewal of hope, even when everything is against it

Every year, as the spring approaches, Iranians prepare for Nowruz; a holiday that marks a new beginning, light after darkness, and hope after a long winter.

By Soheila Zarfam

The soft arrival of spring in wartime Tehran

TEHRAN- Year 1404 is ending under a sky that has too often flashed with missiles instead of fireworks, yet spring still arrives in Iran with its quiet, stubborn radiance. For twenty-one days, the attacks have overshadowed the familiar joy of the last days of the year. This time, the new year greets us hand in hand with Eid al-Fitr, but since the first explosions, the lights of Ramadan nights and end-of-year rituals have felt dimmer, as if viewed through a veil of smoke.

By staff writer

Nowruz in the midst of unwarranted war

TEHRAN - Iranian citizens are celebrating the ancient Nowruz (the Persian New Year) while their country is under an illegal and borderless war by the United States and Israel.

By Garsha Vazirian

Should we tell Uncle Nowruz to stay away this year?

Where the guilt that greeted the new year meets the resilience of the Bent Cypress

TEHRAN — “Uncle Nowruz, do not come here.” This haunting plea has echoed through my mind as the 1405 spring approaches.

By Mohammad Sarfi Editor-in-chief

The spirit of spring

How the Iranian nation endured the past year and entered the new one

Tehran — This year, Nowruz was different. It is no exaggeration to call it the most unprecedented Nowruz in Iran’s contemporary history. The Persian year 1404 was a difficult and bitter one for Iranians. Early in the year, the country became embroiled in a 12-day war imposed by the United States and Israel, during which more than a thousand honorable Iranian citizens lost their lives and became victims of the lies, ambitions, and crimes of those two regimes.