With Iran’s theocracy under strain, a new history shows that its rise was mainly a stroke of bad luck.

It didn’t seem like a huge deal. Yet somehow the unrest continued, increased, and in thirteen months brought the Shah’s ...

Ali Larijani has been reappointed as the Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) at the order of ...

For decades, Iran has been an adversary of the United States. Scott Anderson examines the Iranian revolution of 1979, the upheaval that deposed the reigning monarch and transformed the country from a ...

In a new book, the journalist Scott Anderson argues that America’s failure to predict and understand the 1979 revolution has ...

Qalibaf said the Constitutional Revolution marked one of the most significant chapters in modern Iranian history.

ABC News takes a look back 36 years to the Iranian Revolution. — -- On Feb. 11 each year, Iranians take to the streets in celebration of the anniversary of the Islamic Revolution of 1979. The ...

Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi denies plots to assassinate President Donald Trump and claims Iran has no policy to ...

Berlin festival winner Dag Johan Haugerud will head up the jury for this year's Venice Days competition. Politically-charged ...

How Iranian Underground Cinema and Post-Revolution Persian Rap Could Fuse to Shape the Country's Filmmaking Future ‘No One Knows About Persian Cats' ©IFC Films/Courtesy Everett Collection ...

While every other cultural movement under the Islamic Republic has been either eliminated or co-opted, rap has never succumbed to such a fate. Iran’s rappers were the pioneers of underground art ...