Iran's Revolutionary Guards said on Friday that its intelligence unit had foiled a bomb attack in the southern city of Shiraz, scene of a deadly shooting at a shrine on Wednesday.

The word “human” is used nine times in the press notes for Septembers of Shiraz, 14 if you also count it as a root in the words “humanity,” “humane” and “humanitarian.”Maybe it’s ...

At least 15 people were killed and 40 others were injured Wednesday in a “terrorist attack” at the Shahcheragh Shrine in the city of Shiraz, southern Iran, according to state-run media and ...

At least 15 people have been killed and 40 others injured in an attack on a Shia religious shrine in the southern Iranian city of Shiraz, according to the country’s state media agency, IRNA.

Israel has launched a second wave of airstrikes targeting Iranian cities, with reports confirming explosions in Shiraz, Kermanshah and Tabriz on June 13, according to Rokna and Nour News.

Iran’s Shiraz shrine comes under second deadly attack in months. Last year’s attack, for which two people convicted of being linked with ISIL were executed, left 13 dead and 40 injured.

By the 14th Century, Shiraz wine was immortalised in the poetry of Hafez, whose tomb in the city is still venerated today. "Last night, the wise tavern master deciphered the enigma," he wrote.

Shiraz is also known as the City of Poetry, and Iran’s most famous and still-adored poet, Hafez, was born in there in 1315. Hafez’s writing, considered the pinnacle of Persian literature ...