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

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

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

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

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 ...

Nimisha Priya case: Death sentence of Indian nurse cancelled in Yemen; Grand Mufti’s office confirms breakthrough 750 ...

They hoped for a more inclusive and democratic Iran than what preceded it - the brutal autocracy of the shah that had frequently targeted minorities. Those hopes were quickly dashed. By rejecting ...

Operation Midnight Hammer revives the shadow of 1953, as Iran braces for the consequences of another American intervention.

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.

Iran executed two members of the outlawed Mujahideen-e-Khalq opposition group for targeting civilian infrastructure with ...