(Reuters) - Here are a few facts about the Azadi Tower monument that serves as a gateway to the Iranian capital of Tehran. * The Azadi cultural complex is located in Tehran's Azadi Square in an ...

"Azadi Tower is exposed to humidity, and still no one has paid any attention," Seyyed Mohammad Beheshti, an architect and former cultural heritage official, told the Iranian Students' News Agency ...

An Iranian court has handed jail sentences of over 10 years each to a young couple who danced in front of one of Tehran's main landmarks, activists said on Tuesday.Astiyazh Haghighi and her fiance ...

The Azadi Tower opened in the early 1970s under the rule of the secular, modernizing Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and was meant to celebrate 2,500 years of the Persian Empire.