While global headlines fixate on Iran’s nuclear program or its regional power plays, another crisis rages just beneath the ...

After the establishment of the Islamic Republic, the Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK) fell out of favour with the Supreme Leader, who ...

In 1980 I was invited along with a cohort of historians to attend a conference at Harvard on “Knowing Your Enemies”. We soon ...

The MEK, known in English as People's Mujahideen Organisation of Iran, were a powerful leftist-Islamist group that staged ...

Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi, son of the last Shah, said he planned to launch a separate website for ordinary Iranians to join the campaign to topple the Islamic regime in Iran ...

The Islamic Republic has a history of targeting minority ethnic groups, especially the Kurds, when it feels threatened.

The report didn't say whether the defendants' actions took place during last month's war with Israel, during which Tehran accused opposition groups like MEK of providing support to Israel.

Scott Anderson’s brilliant account of the fall of the shah is a tale of greed, inequality and a blinkered US government ...

IRAN’S merciless regime is “fully on its heels” – leaving the Ayatollah’s days numbered, a former US ambassador says. But the West will not be able to topple ...

Seventy-two years ago, in August 1953, the US and the United Kingdom orchestrated a covert operation to depose Iran's democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh.

Once a revolutionary militia, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps built power through ideology and fear. Now, after devastating losses, its future is uncertain. After major military ...

The shah recognized the dual use for nuclear power, and in June 1974 even told an American journalist that “Iran would have nuclear weapons without a doubt sooner than you think,” a remark he ...