(2002 pop. 1.2 million). Located in a valley amid the foothills of the Sahand Mountains in Iran, Tabriz, the capital of the province of East Azerbaijan, is a city just east of Lake Orumiyeh. Hot springs in and around the city were inducements for early...

Tabriz (Azeri:Təbriz and Persian: تبریز); is the largest city in north-western Iran with an estimated population of 1,597,319 (2007 est.)[1]. Tabriz is situated north of the volcanic cone of Sahand south of the Eynali mountain. It is the capital...

In academic circles, Vartan Gregorian is sometimes referred to as the Gregorian phenomenon, a handy way of summarizing his 12-page resume: president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, former president of Brown University, former CEO and savior of the New York Public Library,...

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Iran's hardline president will honor an American scholar's request to be buried in a historic Iranian city when he dies, the state broadcasting company said Thursday.Richard Nelson Frye, an 87-year-old professor emeritus of Iranian and Central Asian studies at Harvard University, said his desire to...

A popular former president has resumed his attacks against hardline Iranian clerics threatening to disqualify reformists from upcoming elections.In comments published Saturday, Mohammad Khatami, the president until 2005, was quoted as telling residents in the northwestern town of Tabriz that arbitrarily banning candidates was against...